This year I hosted a Canva cleanup party for my followers, and I realized so many of us have really cluttered accounts. If your Canva account is a mess, and if you have trouble finding what you need. This post is for you. I'm going to walk you through my favorite Canva cleaning tips, so you can make designs in less time. Without further ado, let's hop in.

We had a wonderful time at the very first Canva cleaning party and I want to make sure if you're reading this post and you would like an invitation to the next one, all you need to do is join The Bootstrap Club. To do that, go to lashondabrown.com/jointheclub, type in your first name, last name, and email address, and hit join the club to get access to my VIP Vault, which is my epic resource library and to get added to my mailing list for my weekly emails.

On that call, we actually utilized a resource on my channel, which is my two-hour lo-fi playlist and Pomodoro timer. There are two located under the productivity and time management playlists. And if you're having trouble focusing working from home or even working in an office, this playlist has two hours of instrumental music with Pomodoro timers to help you stay focused. Pomodoro is a technique where you take your tasks and you break them up into 25-minute chunks with five-minute breaks. And what's really great about the video version of this technique is the video actually counts you down. So what I tend to do is to put this playlist on the side of my screen so I can see the time ticking down. You will hear audio cues at one minute left and when it is time to take a little break. There are visual breaks for you to look at, so this would be a great opportunity to stretch, use the restroom, get a snack, and when you're five-minute break is up you would start second Pomodoro.

One of the things that I like to do when it's time to clean up my account is I simply hop into my Canva dashboard. For these videos, I try to make things look super sweet and clean but when I tell you it is an utter mess, it really is. When we do these tutorials sometimes I end up creating multiple versions to try to figure out what's a good fit. You can see some designs from past videos here. You can see my Instagram story graphics, you can see promo graphics that I didn't even use and so at the end of the day, it can get a little chaotic in here. And so it's important that every now and again you hop into your Canva account and you give things a little spring cleaning.

The first thing that you want to do when it's time to clean things up is to simply delete and when I'm ready to delete designs, what I do is just scroll to the bottom of my Canva feed and start deleting. Now some of you may accidentally delete something because you're a little trigger-happy. If that happens to you just locate the trash can and you can restore things that you did accidentally delete. So don't freak out, it’s still technically there just dig it out of the trash can.

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Now Canva folders are going to be super useful for you and what I love about Canva, if I am creating a blank design, I have access to my folders within the Canva Design Editor. So what I tend to do when I am ready to create the thumbnails for these YouTube videos, is I scroll down to my folder with these little Canva designs in here, and I simply drop in my image, I remove the background then all I need to do is hit apply, add a glow to my background, give it a little dimension and then there you go. The folders helped me tremendously to save time because I'm not re-uploading every single time that I need to design something.

Now you may not know that you can clean up your uploaded images directly in the editor as well. So if you click on uploads, here is a little image I made in a past video. I can actually click on the dots in the top right-hand corner and move it to the trash this way. I can also send it to a folder. And so if I wanted to add it to my Canva t-shirt images, I can also access this within the editor. So there are multiple ways that you can access what is uploaded to Canva and I would just encourage you to choose the format that works best for you. If you'd like the editor view, you can do it that way. If you prefer to scroll down on the dashboard, you can do that way as well.

You have a few different ways for you to look at what's uploaded on the dashboard. You can view it as a list or you can view it as a grid. So again, whatever works best for you, make sure that you utilize that to save yourself some time. You can also click on projects and that view may be more beneficial for you. So I’m not going to tell you which format is the best, I think whatever helps you to knock out this information quickly, that's the one you should go with because personally organizing data is one of my least favorite things to do. So I will just set that Pomodoro timer and say for the next 25 minutes, I'm going to delete files I don't need, I'm going to create folders.

If you have multiple designs that you would like to consolidate in a folder, you can click on projects on the left-hand side, scroll down to your designs, and begin hovering over your images until it reveals a box to the left that you can check. Checking all of these will help you to bulk-select your designs, it will reveal a folder at the bottom that you can click on to move to a folder and you can create a new one or you can add it to a folder that already exists. So again, this is something that most people do not enjoy doing. And so if that is the case for you, I would encourage you to click on this link, pull up that Pomodoro video, and think about how you can break up your Canva cleaning into four different chunks: folders, deleting, renaming, renaming is a great thing you can do because typically you guys forget to do that and it makes it hard to find designs. So once you have all of those tasks designated in your mind, start that video, listen to your lo-fi music and get cleaning. I would recommend doing this maybe once a quarter at the very least twice a year and if you do that, it's going to make the process of designing so much easier.

Now if you would like access to Canva Pro free for 45 days, make sure that you use my link lashondabrown.com/canva45. That's going to give you all the features involving Canva folders, helping you to see those folders inside the Design Editor and making sure you have all the tools at your disposal to have a very organized Canva account.

Thanks so much for watching this video. I'm LaShonda Brown a Canva Verified Expert from Virginia. The best way to find out about my next Canva cleaning party is to join The Bootstrap Club. So make sure that you do that before you head out. Until next time to tata for now.

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