The bottom right folder in the Dock is called Utilities. Garage Band, Bebot, Music Clips, iMovie and the like. The music folder contains apps that I use to play/create music, or at least to play around with music. Media is anything coming into my environment from another source: Spotify, iTunes, OverCast (podcasts), Kindle, Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, etc. The Social folder just below that holds the contacts app, plus social network apps (Instagram, Echofon for Twitter, Yelp, Slack, Micro.blog and others.) The two folders that may confuse readers is Media and Music. When I wake up and go to bed, I turn on various apps in the Health folder for weight, blood pressure, and exercise. During the course of the day, I may need to check into schedule/to-do type apps, so the Time folder is there. For most of my day-to-day life, these apps play a huge part. You’ll note that only three apps are not contained within folders on my homescreen: Messages, Phone, and eMail. Organizationally I find iOS lacking when compared to Android. When I upgraded to the iPhone X I changed my background to all black to match the infamous notch. I’m shooting for the most boring/bland home screen award. I love the way I have my phone set up and Android allows me that freedom! Dave Rees This folder uses the “Empty” theme which hides the title and outline of the folder to give this screen a cleaner look. The apps you see on my default home screen are actually inside a folder that I named “Common”. It also allows you to choose a color theme or even create your own. It allows you to create folder widgets of different sizes so that you can resize the folder to view all the apps within it and immediately tap on any app to launch it. This app allows me to create folders of all kinds using my own titles, but unlike other folders, you do not have to tap on them to open them just to see all the apps within it. I also love to use the Folder Organizer Lite app. There are all kinds of interesting articles in it and thus I set up a Curiosity widget on my home screen to view the 5 highlighted articles of the day. And if I enter the location of the event in the calendar, the widget allows me to tap on the map icon next to the location information within the widget to immediately launch Google Maps so I can quickly get going.Ĭuriosity is one of my favorite apps to read. I like the widgets for this calendar because I can customize the calendar views (month view, agenda, etc.), the colors of the font of my events and locations, the transparency of the widget, etc. I use the Business Calendar Pro app as well. I placed this widget at the top of my home screen. There are other sizes of widgets which provide you with more detailed information, but I like to keep it succinct. It allows me to customize the look of the weather icons, the color of the text, and the widget transparency. I love the widget for this app because it tells me the time, date, and weather information at a glance just the way I like it. I also use the Transparent Clock & Weather app. ![]() I know that today, the memory needed for a desktop picture is insignificant, but I can’t stop behaving according to this nostalgic requirement from my windows 3.0 days. Also, I have a black background because I hate covering up things and I have the sense that I need to keep it simple to save memory. I used to have all my health on the next page I may go back to that since a swipe is about as easy as a press to get inside a folder. I’ve just upgraded from an iPhone 6 to an 8 so I’m excited to use 3D touch to see badges in nested folders. I’ve set this up for efficiency in finding things – I have everything nested in folders so all my programs are always only two button presses away (except for gadgets and health, I have more in those folders). Besides, with free apps every once and a while, its easy to build up this lush ecology of apps without much investment. I probably only regularly use about 30%-40% of them, but with my pictures on Amazon and my music on Spotify I don’t need much phone room for other things.
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