Mobile phones - do you store your apps in folders or pages (screens)?
Mostly the title. I try to keep my apps inside relevant folders, but this is getting tedious.
I'm wondering if it may be better to keep apps of one kind (e.g., maps/navigation) on their own screen and other apps (e.g., social media) on a separate screen.
Is it easier to swipe by screen or to keep similar apps in folders? What do you think?
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GreyShuck
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I find it far easier to swipe to themed screens, each with a combo of widgets and apps.
I have one folder for car parking apps and so on, which I use less often.
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TheLeadenSea
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I have everything in folders on my home screen, I don't like swiping
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kettuli
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I have three folders in the home screen so it can have Safari and look balanced. For apps not in the folders I use search.
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in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I have my important apps for which i don't have an appropriate (and fitting) widget (Signal, Element, Firefox, Obsidian) in my dock organized using folders based on category.
In the app drawer i use Lawnchair's caddy layout, which sorts my apps based on their category. Despite this i mostly just use the search bar for looking for apps.
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zikzak025
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I use Niagara launcher, so all of my apps are in a single scrollable list.
This isn't a screenshot of my own phone, but this is essentially what it looks like. There's an A-Z list on the right that you can use to jump to a specific letter, or just scroll down the full list on the left. You can keep a small list of favorites at the top. It does support folders, but I don't use them.
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Hazmatastic
in reply to zikzak025 • • •Navigating to any app in Niagara is so fast. It keeps my home screen looking fresh and clean while also keeping every app within a couple seconds reach, no folders necessary. Honestly I feel like folders would just make it take longer.
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helpImTrappedOnline
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I find it more practical to seperate by things you uses frequently vs things you use occasionally.
Frequently used things get a place on the home page where it's easy to get to, everything else is dumped into a few broad catagories.
I have 4 folders, "stores(&bank stuff)" "games(&entertainment)" "utilities(&misc)" and "work".
It's all sorted alphabetical.
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AstroLightz
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I only have 2 screens of apps.
First page (Main) is all the apps I use frequently. The most frequently used apps are in places where I can easily reach while one-handed.
Second page is apps that are used rarely. A lot of utilitity apps fall into this category.
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Onomatopoeia
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •Use Macrodroid's Drawer (slides out from left side) and Folders from Jina Drawer.
Jina can work with folders and tags to automatically sort apps.
But that's how my brain works, I need the structure to find stupid apps with terrible names.
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ace_garp
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •Kvaesitso
One page of favourites, then search-based for other apps.
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lilith267
in reply to ace_garp • • •I stg Kvaetsitso fixed my adhd /hj
Main screen: wallpaper, clock in the center and favorites at the bottom
Go right: search-based grid of all apps
Go down: mini weather ontop, Kvaetsitso notepad widget taking up the entire rest of the screen. The ability to be able to jot quick todos or notes without needing to open an app has been close to life changing for remembering to do things
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ace_garp
in reply to lilith267 • • •Thanks!
I'm updating some of my layout now, based on your comment (c:
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NewNewAugustEast
in reply to darthsundhaft • • •Funny how everyone is different.
I don't have wall paper because I have zero reason to look at it and it gets in the way of my apps.
But I respect the keeping everything tidy. On my desktop computer I don't gave wallpaper, or folders, or apps.
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SanguinePar
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I've got 12 folders on my homescreen, but each of those can be swiped up, down, left or right to launch my most frequently used apps. I do have a second screen, but it's just used for a couple of calender widgets.
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in reply to Digitalprimate • • •ectofunk
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •I've been using μLauncher (github) for probably 6 months or so on my Pixel 8a.
I like it. I like trying a bunch of different apps for different things so I do a lot of Favorites/App management daily. Its also just a nice minimalist launcher. I've recently started taking more advantage of all the gesture options to quickly open apps as well from the home screen.
Edit: Forgot to mention μLauncher doesn't show apps on the home screen. Instead you get the app drawer, a favorites "drawer" and a whole lotta gesture options you use from the home screen.
GitHub - jrpie/launcher: A distraction-free, minimal homescreen for Android.
GitHub87Six
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •southernbrewer
in reply to Digitalprimate • • •Home screen is a bunch of folders, but each folder is just apps with a particular colour of icon. Red folder, green folder, blue folder... Rainbow folder (that's mostly googly apps plus slack)
Because I don't easily remember apps by themes but I usually know the colour of the app I'm looking for. Super efficient
Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Digitalprimate • •Absolutely no sorting into folders. Especially not manually sorting.
Back when Aviate! was an Android launcher, before it was acquired by Yahoo and then ruined, it did the most logical thing: auto-group apps by category, location based, messenger, games. Best of all, it did not change the home screen much. Swiped right it showed the (four? five? don't remember) most recently used app per square. All most recently used apps were always on the same screen, no opening of folders to see them, and always (after the swipe right) just a single tap to start the app. A tap on the category would open it to see others of the same category. With Aviate sorting manually was exposed as a total waste of time.
Today, Niagara Launcher "sorts" apps by the few favourites you define, and the rest is sorted by "the alphabet" with the side bar thing that zikzak025 shows. That too eliminates manual sorting, but I think folders are possible.
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