How to Organise your Phone Apps
How many apps do you have on your phone? Do you use all of them or just have them there because you paid for them in 2010?If it takes you longer than a minute to find an app, you need to organise it into some order.There are several ways to organise your apps so that it is easier to use and navigate your phone. Here is how I have organised my phone apps:The main bar at the bottom has the most important apps. Note how important Twitter is to my life, although Facebook is coming back to take over that mantle....The first page, is organised to contain my most used apps. These are the apps that I cannot live without on a daily basis. As you can group apps into folders I have created folders fora. Social Networking - includes Pinterest, Linkedin, Feedly.
OK Key Ring and 1Password are not social networking apps but it works for me there.b. Pictures - includes Instagram, Photos, Followers+, etcc. Work apps - includes Evernote, Authenticator, Insightly and Dropboxd. Productivity - includes the ever essential Calculator and Convertere. Chat - Whats App, FB Messenger, BBM, Skype and Facetime are all clubbed together.f. Google - Google Drive, Google+ and other Google Apps.You can see the screen is not filled up. The apps in the next pages are not essential so they are moved away to reduce the clutter in the first page.The second page contains more of the entertainment. The folders are grouped into:
a. Music - includes Shazam, WhoSampled and Remote (how brilliant is this app for when you are cooking?).
b. Movies and TV - the usual suspects of YouTube and IMDB
c. News - BBC, National and essential BuzzFeedd.
d. Shops - I find most Shop apps are redundant for me in the UAE, but I do have Amazon UK and M&S in my folder to enable me to buy and ship here or collect when I am returning to the UK
e. Books - Kindle and the Apple App of course as well as the two essential dictionaries - Webster and Urban!
f. Health & Fitness - Ladies get P Tracker Lite to monitor that time of the month...
g. Arcade Games - it rotates according to how bored I am of the games. Any good suggestions are welcome.
h. Food & Drink - BBC Food and Epicure are favourites.
i. And Dubai - including the RTA app (why they separated the brilliant one app into several ones is beyond me!), Careem and the cinema apps.The final page is all about Travel. So I have folders for:
a. Travel - Tripcase is an essential as well as Airbnb.
b. Flights - contains the airline apps including Emirates (took them long enough to create it) and brilliant Flight+.
c. London - Time Out and O2 apps are the main apps i use theird. London Travel - of course I need Tube Status, Busmapper and TheTrainline to travel within Kent and London. :)
This is how I have organised my apps on my phone. There are other ways to organise. Two favourite suggestions are:
1. Colour CodingI have also seen folders created in each colour and apps in those colours are put in there, eg: all blue apps in one folder, etc.
2. By alphabet How do you organise your apps on your phone? I would love to hear your suggestions.If you need help to organise your phone apps, book a session with us today to declutter your phone.
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