You definitely have some sort of electronic device that requires you to download apps, and you have to have a job or a hobby that demands specific apps on that device. Most likely, that device is your phone or a tablet. If that describes you then keep reading!
My phone is a kind of cheap Xiaomi RedMi one, I have it for 6 months now, and I am already starting to looking for a new one. On my phone I have pretty much everything I need for my hobbies, and I usually spend much time during the day with it.
I have categorized my apps in a way that I can easily find the app I need, and the categories are 10.
1 . First category is Google Apps one. In here, I have Google News, Gmail, Photos, Maps, Keep Notes, Play Store, Calendar, Drive, Translate, Lens, YT Music, Google TV, Duo, Contacts, Google Pay, Google One, Podcasts, Weather, Analytics, Docs and Fit. Even though I do not use all of them right now, I keep them because I am planning on using them, or I may do some day. One example is Google Pay, which I am planning to use when I create another bank account that can work with google, because my bank cannot do that yet. Google Chrome is at the bottom of my screen, because I tend to use that a lot.
2. The second and most used category is Social Media, in which I have Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, Pinterest, Spotify, Viber, Tumblr, WhatsApp, ArtStation, Zoom, and Pantreon. If you are wondering where the hell I have my Instagram and my Messenger app is right in the bottom of my screen with the Google Chrome and the Camera buttons.
3. I have a category just for my Traveling apps, because I used to travel a lot through Europe, and had to download files nd book flights easily. The apps here are Aegean, Gotogate, Kiwi.com, SAS, Norwegian, Ryanair, and Airbnb. This way I can go to this section when I need the paper work for my trips!
4. In the fourth category, I keep all my work-related apps, and it’s called Work. I use VSCO a lot, for editing pretty much all of my photos for my Instagram and Pinterest accounts, I use Layout and Canvas sometimes, and I, of course, have WordPress so I can write down my ideas wherever I am.
5. One of my favorite things to do is educate myself, so I attend online courses related or not, to my field, so I use some apps to help me do that on my phone. I use Udemy, Coursera and Skillshare a lot. Also, Audible for books and Duolingo for earning a new language are two of my absolute favorites. I do keep Ted app in here as well, even though it’s not so educational, but it is certainly inspirational and motivates me to start a new course or think about something new. I have named this one simply; Education.
6. I am a Freelance Artist, so I got to have apps for Job Hunting, so what I chose to download are UpWork, ClickWorker, Fiverr and Freelancer. I do really use UpWork, and I am not that satisfiIed wet, but the others I still trying to figure out how to use.
7. One of my favorite categories is this seventh one, which I call the Shopping one, and I visit it everyday. I really enjoy going through my apps that I have here during my home workout sessions, and maybe chill, while I have my coffee in the morning. Here, I have; H&M, Depop, Adidas, Urban Outfitters, ASOS, Stradivarius, Nasty Gal, Zara, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Missguided, Mango, Shein, Pretty Little Thing, Brandy Melville, Ebay, Shopify and Amazon Shopping.
8. I have another kind of random one, that I have named Tools. In this one I have stuff like calculator, timer, the device cleaner, and other Mi apps that I don’t use that came with the phone. I rarely go to this category, but it’s nice to keep somewhere the stuff you don’t use at all, but can’t get rid of them either.
9. There is an Entertainment section as well. In this I keep some of my favorite games, and even though I do not play that much on my phone, I store them in case I forgot to download a movie, or didn’t care to take a book with me when I fly and travel. These games are the Tap titans, and Bubble Shooter. In this category, since is called entertainment, I keep my Netflix, Prime Amazon and HBO Max apps, and another one called Aurora, that I use to keep track of the Aurora Lights.
10. The last category, the tenth, contains some useful personal apps, that help me get organized. I have Mi Fitness, DayNote, Notes, and Google Sheets in here. I use Google Notes as well, but apparently I make so many notes I had to have an analog journal, my Google Calendar, Mi Notes, and a DayNote app to help me keep it together. This category I just call Personal.
There is no need to follow the exact categories I did, but I found this way to be very helpful for my everyday use of my phone. I know where everything is, and even though I don’t follow the rules, meaning, not every Google App is in the first category, I have sectioned them the way it was convenient for me.
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