March 30, 2016

Homescreen 2 folder iconography

My Home Screen 2

How to organize apps and folders is an ongoing experiment of mine. After 6 years, I have more or less a stable solution for the second home screen.

You’ll notice that I use symbols to name folders. For some reason it makes classifying and finding apps easier:

⌘ System: Anything that can be filed as utilities or tools.
⚑ Location: Parkings apps, OpenTable, etc.
 Apple: Default apps.
Baby: You guessed it, Robie related.
▶︎ Media: Audio, video, etc.
♣︎ Games: Bang, bang.
☗ Home: Roku/Apple TV, weather, plane finder.
▲ Cooking: The triangle means heat in my head.
⦁ Photography: It’s like a camera lens!
☁︎ Cloud: Web services.
❝ Writing: Please quote me.
✈︎ Travel: Getting there is half the apps.
‰ Finance: Banks and anything that has my money.
$ Stores: Everything that wants my money.
◍ Web: Browsers and other web apps.
🄰🄿 Aeropost: My job.
☍ Social: Lets connect.

Any other app left outside is something I’m playing with but hasn’t found a place in the main screen¹ or any of the folders.

I’m cheating a little bit because Launch Center Pro is in my main screen.↩︎