Re:I Simplified My Smartphone to Regain Control of My Life
by SllX on Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:12AM
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“I put all my apps in one folder“
I do something similar and can recommend it.
I keep all sorts of apps on my phone, some I don’t need very often like the Find My app, some of which I only initiate through Siri like Phone and FaceTime, some of which are donor apps to some kind of central app already installed or provide some other kind of infrastructure like my content blocker. All of those apps, every single app not on my first screen or Dock except my banking and finance apps go into a folder on the 2nd screen labeled “Etc.” and the banking and finance apps go into a folder right next to that one labeled “Bank”. I did this because those handful of times I need a particular app I don’t access often, I’m not going to remember where I put it if I tried to organize everything by some kind of category, I’m not even going to remember where on the screen of page 2 I placed a particular category. Nothing in my Etc. folder is organized in any kind of fashion other than the order in which things were dropped in.
When I need it, Search will find it, but everything I access every single day or week is right there on the first page. No badge notifications, and notifications only for messaging and calls and card alerts.
I do something similar and can recommend it.
I keep all sorts of apps on my phone, some I don’t need very often like the Find My app, some of which I only initiate through Siri like Phone and FaceTime, some of which are donor apps to some kind of central app already installed or provide some other kind of infrastructure like my content blocker. All of those apps, every single app not on my first screen or Dock except my banking and finance apps go into a folder on the 2nd screen labeled “Etc.” and the banking and finance apps go into a folder right next to that one labeled “Bank”. I did this because those handful of times I need a particular app I don’t access often, I’m not going to remember where I put it if I tried to organize everything by some kind of category, I’m not even going to remember where on the screen of page 2 I placed a particular category. Nothing in my Etc. folder is organized in any kind of fashion other than the order in which things were dropped in.
When I need it, Search will find it, but everything I access every single day or week is right there on the first page. No badge notifications, and notifications only for messaging and calls and card alerts.