![]() ![]() ![]() WordPress on my phone is another example of an app I only ever use while mobile – used when I come up with an idea for a piece I want to write, and I just create a new post to jot down a few notes I can use as a prompt when I’m sitting at my desk. BBC News and The Guardian, for example, are news apps that I use to quickly catch up on the world while I’m on the move, while at home I’ll use the website on my Mac. There are other apps I use almost exclusively while I’m out and about. While my Mac is my primary device when I’m sitting at my desk, in the evening I’m more likely to use my iPhone to simply check email or play some music. Organize your iPhone apps by context/placeįor example, I have apps I use all the time at home. The apps I use frequently are organized by usage occasion. To be clear, I do still use categorized folders – but only for apps I hardly ever use. For example, I went through a phase of using GarageBand a lot (to kind of pretend I could play an instrument… ), and that was in the same Entertainment folder as Kindle, which I used only if I’d forgotten to take my physical Kindle on a trip. Second, although a bunch of apps might belong in the same category, that might lump together apps I used all the time with apps I hardly ever used. Later, however, it became a much more general tool. When I first started using Dropbox, for example, it was almost exclusively for business use, so it went into a Business folder. First, there was the question of remembering how I’d categorized an app. And so on.īut as the number of apps grew, there came a point where the cracks in that approach started to show themselves. Camera and other photography-related apps were in a folder called Photography. For example, I had a bunch of chat apps in a folder called, imaginatively enough, Chat. Instead of organizing my apps by what they do, I organize them by where I am when I use them ….įor quite a while, I thought I had the most logical way to organize my apps: by category. But more than eight years later, I’m still using a method I first tried back in 2013 ( that screen size! those icons!). There are probably almost as many ways to organize your iPhone apps as there are iPhone users, and most of us have probably experimented with a bunch of them. ![]()
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