Our favorite smartphones and tablets offer us great possibilities, thanks in large part to all the wonderful applications that can be downloaded.
Difficult to remember to install everything that moves, and we quickly face a major problem: manage to navigate all this, when dozens of small colorful icons occupy our screens.
I recently came across an article from LifeHack that gave me some good ideas.
This is primarily storage on different "offices" or "home screens" because the complete list of applications accessible by the button at the bottom of the screen is not customizable by default (but I come back at the end of the article)
Some storage ideas
Before imagining the best way to sort all this, here are three methods to put some order by grouping together applications. The idea is to help our brain to find them faster.
In folders
This is the easiest way to organize a large number of applications without completely cluttering all its screens.
Small reminder for the creation of file: that it is on Android or on iOS, it is enough to drag the icon of an application on another, a file is created then containing the two applications. Then just open it and click on its name to edit it.
Then slide in other applications to add them.
By row or column
Although folders are very convenient, their use involves an extra click to open an application (open the folder> open application). It's nothing to unity, but multiplied by the number of times you open an application a day, do not be surprised if the horn appears on your thumb, your screen wears faster, and your productivity the whole is reduced by half.
When you can limit its number of applications on its home screens, it may not be necessary to store everything in folders.
The idea can be to visually organize its screen to navigate: on iOS as Android, the storage of applications is done on a grid, which can be used to his advantage.
We can imagine grouping similar applications by line or by column. You can afford the luxury of leaving empty rows or columns to ventilate all that.
By screen: think in 3 dimensions
Since our mobile operating systems leave us the ability to create multiple home screens, this allows us to think about both the ranking on one screen, but also on several.
You may have created thematic folders on your home page (work, multimedia, games ...), but why not take your applications out of their folders so that each theme occupies a screen all in one? To think about it will be roughly equivalent in number of manipulations to access an application.
But at the same time, focusing everything on a single screen can also be effective, for you to see according to your preferences.
(note: the purists will tell me that this is not really 3 dimensions since we usually drag the screens from right to left, thus constituting a simple extension of the horizontal dimension.They will be right in most cases , except for Android users who have installed an alternative launcher for desktop management in 3 dimensions.There was the moment Sheldon Cooper).
Some sorting ideas
Now that we know how to tidy up properly, let's see in which order we could sort all our applications.
Prerequisite: Do you really need all of its icons on your home screens?
Of course, before imagining a sorting method "by antechronological order of the publication of the beta version by its publishers" (registered trademark), the stupid question to ask is: "what are the applications that I REALLY need to have in front of you? "
After all, alphabetical ordering in the list of apps is fine in most cases.
In my opinion, it is necessary to place:
- the applications that you use really often, either daily or in special conditions (on the move, abroad ...)
- why not applications that you use punctually but in a situation where it is difficult for you to search: at the red light in the car (and not driving, is not it?), when you do your jogging .. .
For the rest, I advise you to remove them from your home screens. This is also the opportunity to do some housework by uninstalling the applications that you actually never use (I'm sure they are many).
By theme
This is the basic sorting method that we probably use most often; we group applications by major theme to help our brain to find them. Some examples :
- multimedia, with applications of music, photos, videos ...,
- communication, with email applications, SMS, chat ...,
- social networks,
- read or standby, with applications like Medium, an RSS reader, ...
- practical applications (directory, weather, ...)
- games and other leisure applications ...
In short, to adapt according to your needs. As mentioned above, it's also up to you to see if you prefer to put them in your folders (each folder can correspond to a theme), or by row, column or screen.
By action
This time it is to group the applications according to the context in which you use them, according to what you are doing. For example :
- when you go running, you may need your music player, a map if you get lost, and your favorite performance tracking application,
- in public transport, maybe it's one or two applications to read the news, the application of the transport company to try to find out why this damn train is stopped on the tracks, and your music player,
- at work, it may be your favorite professional social network, desktop and file storage applications, calendar and to-do lists ...
This can lead to finding the same application in several groups, and therefore multiply the number of icons, but I think it is an effective method.
By colors
It may sound silly, but simply sorting our apps using the colors of their icons can be quite effective.
The brain very easily distinguishes visual information like colors, why not try to take advantage of it.
I'm sure you know by heart the dominant color of almost all of your applications, I'm wrong?
Okay, it will be the job site when redesign of such or such mark, but it is not every day. And for smart guys like Google who love multicolored icons, you can see on the screenshot above that we can not get along too well by grouping them together.
By frequency of use
This is also a method of sorting that we use quite intuitively, which consists of placing in the most visible way the applications that we use the most, and to put others further.
On the first screen can appear the applications that you really use every day (social networks, mail, calendar ... according to your use). Why not also by avoiding to put them in files to access them as quickly as possible.
On the next screen (left and right), the applications you use regularly, this time allowing you to classify them in folders if necessary.
On the following superfluous applications but you can not resolve to disappear from your home screens for one reason or another.
Some additional ideas
Use widgets on Android
One of the benefits of Android is to allow applications to create widgets that can be placed anywhere on the screen. It is possible for most to size them to his taste, and they can be a useful tool to organize his various offices.
For example, it can be used to clearly distinguish the usefulness of each screen:
- a "work" screen, with the widget of your favorite task list application, and besides the shortcuts to your office applications, organization, ...
- a "multimedia" screen, with the widget of a music player, and applications for playing video, pictures ... all around,
- a "planning" screen, with a calendar widget and why not next to applications useful to your travels: maps, public transport, ...
A sober wallpaper to see more clearly ...
Of course, all these efforts to organize its applications will be dashed if you stick behind a complex wallpaper that makes everything completely unreadable.
Simple wallpapers, with relatively plain colors, generally work well.
That does not prevent you from a little fantasy, with why not funds with complex appearance only on a part of the screen, allowing you to use the rest to put your icons. A mix between beauty and practice in short.
I have not found a desktop wallpaper dedicated to the organization like the one on PC, but I guess it must exist, and you can always do it yourself if you're a little handyman.
... or why not any application on the desktop?
The opposite idea is to sacrifice nothing to the beauty of a blank screen of any icon, sublimated by an artistic wallpaper [poet mode off].
To think about it, that's what I often advise to do on computer, so why not.
The quick launch bar
Of course, we must not forget this one, this small bar stuck down that remains visible on all screens.
No need to advise you to put the apps you really use most often? And yet, are you sure that the applications that are there at the moment are really the most indispensable in your daily use?
For me it's been a long time: camera, phone, SMS and browser on my smartphone ... but to think about it I probably use more e-mails than the phone, to meditate.
The launchers on Android
Android allows you to go even further by installing alternative launchers, with or without root of the device, which can completely shake the appearance of his system.
And this does not only concern the home screen, because often the complete list of applications can also be customized, with possibilities of filters, sorting ...
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