Comments on: Sorting iPhone Apps By Color

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:16:07 +0000

I have my most used on the first page and use search for everything else. I refuse to reorganize every time I download a new app.

By: marne

marne — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:37:17 +0000

I sorted my icons by color a few weeks ago without intending to leave it that way, but it's worked out really well. I'm a pretty visual person, though, and it really looks so much nicer. It's nice to know I'm not the only one out there who thought to do it :o)

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:09:06 +0000

I tried organizing by color and determined that it was not conducive to how I used the device. I do however, try to group same color icons together on each screen. I sort by most used on the first page and have SpringBoard to jump to other categories.

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By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:26:45 +0000

In reply to Hal. That's how I organize them. Categories is one of the best applications! Cant stand too many pages. Frank

By: Rxmxsh

Rxmxsh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:31:08 +0000

I always use the reset home screen option to make it all alphabetical. Then I move compass and voice memo over to the second screen, leaving a 2.0 home screen that I have memorized to the touch (without looking). Spotlight launches all my apps.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:13:19 +0000

This seems like a bad idea as icons should be “iconic” and easily recognizable. If each application was a blue circle, how in the world would I easily determine which app was which?

Shape, color, and form in icons should really be used for functional, and not decorative, means.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:15:57 +0000

In reply to Gabe Jacobs. Same here - tried Categories, never liked it a whole bunch. Feel like Stacks has good potential in this sort of area.

By: Gabe Jacobs

Gabe Jacobs — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:23:41 +0000

In reply to bghuna. maybe itunes 9.1 :)

By: bghuna

bghuna — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:17:45 +0000

As I now approach 9 pages, I often thought that future OS upgrades should an adaptable way to organize with labels that opened page(s) based on those labels or categories. After all, it's sorted in the App Store (productivity, games, utilities, etc.).

By: Gabe Jacobs

Gabe Jacobs — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:14:17 +0000

In reply to Hal. I love the idea of categories, but for me, it is not implemented well enough to use. It needs to open faster and work as if its another springboard. For example, the icons should be movable just like on your home screen. I would love to see more work on it.

By: Hal

Hal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:46:29 +0000

Using just two Screens, first screen the most used. Second one made up by Categories like ie “Travel” or “Games” (mine is a jailbroken one and the “folders” you get with and Settings/App Store/Cydia.

Bottom ones on the first screen are the ones that need syncing, ie RSS (Byline) and Twitter.

By: FrankCatalano

FrankCatalano — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:27:55 +0000

I never thought about organizing them by color before…. It looks really nice when you sort them that way. I tend to sort my apps by function. The 1st & 2nd page are stock apps / news / weather & social networking. The 3rd to 5th page is all utility apps like: Convertbot / IGN / G-Park / Tipstar….etc. My final 2 pages consist of games. Nice article!