Comments on: A Homescreen Clean-up Experiment – Part Two [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

By: Maclean Patrick - A Malaysian Writer Speaks.

Maclean Patrick - A Malaysian Writer Speaks. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:06:17 +0000

[…] actually taking up a challenge to cleanup my Homescreen as mentioned JustAnotheriPhoneblog.com; interesting way to take up my time when I sit and stare at […]

By: dubya

dubya — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:25:17 +0000

In reply to Diego Petrucci. thanks for the info... having a hard time finding the icons tho

By: Diego Petrucci

Diego Petrucci — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:29:03 +0000

In reply to sysrage. Thank you for sharing yours. I like your idea and I'll probably test it out. Anyway, i don't see why we couldn't use both, they do not interfer with each other

By: Diego Petrucci

Diego Petrucci — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27:37 +0000

In reply to Kosi. Hope it works for you as well!

By: Diego Petrucci

Diego Petrucci — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27:14 +0000

In reply to dubya. matte ui + matte icons. there are some icons that I've actually created and others that I've taken at shawnblanc.com

By: Ron Thompson

Ron Thompson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:21:00 +0000

I use Lockinfo as my “Home page” which shows current plus five day weather forcast, email, ,SMS, push notifications, missed calls, voice mail… On page two all my apps are sorted into eight folders/ “Categories.”

By: dubya

dubya — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:14:04 +0000

does anyone know what theme is shown here??

By: dubya

dubya — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:10:12 +0000

does anyone know what these is shown here??

By: MentalSwitch

MentalSwitch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:50:07 +0000

i have five columns on my SB so my front page features up to 25 icons. 7 of them are Categories (with CategoriesSB installed) so this means that I can get to 175 apps with two or fewer touches. My front page is limited to the best of the best plus the categorized stuff.

By: Kosi

Kosi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:26:38 +0000

This sounds so logical ... it's amazing that i didn't think about it until you said it, but i'm going to try that and see how it works out. http://www.designsbykosi.info/iphone-tips/

By: John Steele

John Steele — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:18:35 +0000

My home screen is reserved for 2 kinds of apps. Apps used daily, and apps trying out to make the daily use cut (such as the newly released Siri).

By: sysrage

sysrage — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:05:26 +0000

This is an interesting experiment and one I would like to try myself. Now if only I could find the time to do so. My SpringBoard has gotten terribly unorganized because I haven't had the time to sit down for an hour or two and work out a good organization method. One of my biggest problems is I get used to an app being in a certain place. Then, even if it makes more sense for it to be somewhere else, it slows me down to organize things properly because I keep going back to the old place looking for the app.

Just this weekend I finally ran out of SpringBoard pages, so I began creating new Stacks. I've always had one Stack on my dock which contains all my music apps (iPod, Pandora, Last.FM, Shoutcast, and iHeartRadio). Now I have three more Stacks. One I call 'Local' which has all those fun GPS aware apps to find things like Yelp, AroundMe, Where, Geodelic, Flixster, Urbanspoon, and I also threw in Speed Test and Mark the Spot. Another Stack I call 'Tweaks' which are all the icons for the jailbreak tweaks which rarely need access to those icons (Backgrounder, Notifier, WinterBoard, LogMailer, CrashReporter, AddExchange, Snappy). Then I made a Stack for 'Games'.

With just these 4 Stacks, I now have only 4 SpringBoard pages and I'm able to easily keep everything I regularly and semi-regularly use on the same page (by putting the semi-regular Local and Music apps in a stack). I guess I'm completely moving away from the point of your experiment, I just feel if Apple would finally give us better organization methods, such an experiment wouldn't be necessary.

That said, thanks for sharing your experience.

By: King-On Yeung

King-On Yeung — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:06:23 +0000

hope there would be "Recent Items" on the nth homescreen page in Settings .