This morning I had a meeting… More like half work, half fun. That’s how I see it. Talking with one of my friends, we were setting a date for our next meeting when he took out his PalmZ22, now dated a good 5 years back. We talked about how he’s waiting to get his stuff all together with an iPhone and a Mac, including calendar, contacts, To-Do’s. You name it, and like the Apple ad says, there’s an app for that. All that he needs is organizing. Me, I needed some too.
In the last 6 months I managed to go from 3 pages of apps on the Phone to 6. How did that happen? First, Some app basics for me. Got Boxcar so I could get the DMs as text (through push notification) instead of looking into Tweetie each time I wanted to check if I had DMs. then I upgraded to Tweetie2 after testing it from a friend (worth the update). Then a few other apps I downloaded to try, and I’m not much of a gamer, but got a few design oriented games that I’m loving… Bit by bit I got my apps to grow a lot. Between upgrades and curiosity I had a cluttered iPhone.
I try to be as organized as I can in every aspect of my life, personal and professional… And my phone was quite the opposite. I plugged the iPhone to the mac and started going through all the apps. I have now 4 pages of apps, all with the last “space” free (don’t know why it’s always been a thing of mine having that last space free) and with the apps very well organized. On the first page Phone, SMS, Calendar, both cameras (I have the 3G iphone, so I bought iCamcorder for video), Tweetie2, Things. All things I use for work and personal life on a daily basis. Second page, Facebook, Beejive, Boxcar, some other Apple designed and pre installed apps, Apple remotes (iTunes and Keynote) and Skype. Third page, games and MobileMe apps. And on the last page Dropbox, Documents to Go, Bank and Paypal apps, Converters and cooking apps. Now this is an organized iPhone!
One last thing… Since I un-installed two pages of apps the iPhone runs and responds faster!