One of my constant battles with the iPhone “ or perhaps more with myself “ is in the area of keeping my number of installed apps under control. Lately I ‘ve been trying to pay more attention to how many apps I have within single categories, or certainly those within a category that do the same job.
Some categories naturally get more leeway of course “ like Games for instance, where you may well have lots of different games but very few that overlap in terms of what they offer.
The areas I ‘m trying to force myself to do a little trimming in are those where I do have several apps that all do pretty much the same thing. My two biggest areas of this type right now are note-taking apps and Twitter client apps.
I currently have four note-taking apps installed “ and that ‘s not even counting voice notes apps. I would like to narrow this down to two “ Evernote (which is a constant and a go-to app on both desktop and iPhone) and one other, with a nicer text note input interface than Evernote.
On the Twitter clients front, I also have four apps at the moment “ though one is under review right now, so generally I have been running three of late “ Twitterrific and Tweetie (which have been my two favorites for a while) and TweetDeck, which I am learning to appreciate because of its Groups feature. Again, my goal is to eventually narrow this down to two apps, and ideally to just one at some point in future.
How do you all manage on this subject? Do you allow yourself to have more than one app in a category if they have the exact same purpose? How many apps do you allow yourself in most categories?
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