The Apps on My Home Screen

Cluttered home screen, cluttered life.

I try to keep the home screen of my phone uncluttered. It makes finding things quickly so much easier.

Naturally, the apps that I find most useful are on the front page. These are apps that are extremely useful to me, and may also be useful to you. There are currently 23 apps on my home screen:

1. Phone
2. Gmail
3. Chrome
4. Music – I’m super happy with my YouTube Music subscription
5. Camera
6. Clock – Where I set all critical alerts and reminders
7. Messages
8. Tasks – One big todo list that effectively runs my life
9. Podcasts
10. Docs – For quick access to documents stored on GSuite
11. Kindle – Where I do most of my reading
12. Wegmans – A great app if you have a Wegmans near you. I use it as my shopping list even outside of Wegmans.
13. Google Maps
14. Stocard – Where I keep electronic versions of all my barcoded cards
15. Play Books – an alternative to Kindle
16. Wikipedia – to get quick information
17. Google Keep – Where I can take quick notes
18. Ring – Doorbell app to keep track of visitors to my house
19. Settings – For quick access to wifi settings
20. Calculator – For quick calculations
21. Google Calendar
22. Pomodoro – For staying focused through the workday
23. Weather

Apps that have dropped to the second page

I still use some apps enough to keep them, but just not on the front page.

1. Fitbit – I use this for sleep and weight tracking
2. Instagram – For sharing a daily picture with the public
3. Google Photos – My entire photo archive
4. Twitter – For sharing little things with the public
5. Amazon Alexa – Centralized shopping list
6. Facebook – For spying on relatives and friends 🙂
7. At Bat – to keep track of MLB baseball
8. OverDrive – I still use this app occasionally to borrow ebooks from my local library.
9. Google Drive – Sometimes I need a non-document file from my Google Drive.
10. Goodreads – I don’t go through books as quickly as I used to.

Apps that I no longer use

Some apps are simply obsolete, replaced, or have outlived their usefulness to me.

1. Strides – To keep track of my long-term goals
2. Zero – A simple app for tracking intermittent fasting
3. CardStar – For storing my cards. Replaced with Stocard.
4. Focus Keeper – For tracking periods of focused work. Replaced with a different pomodoro app.
5. Scrivener – Lets me write rough drafts of books on my phone. iOS only, and now I use Android.
6. Evernote – This is the one program that can digitize all of your paper. Replaced with Google Keep.
7. Balanced – Keeps me on task. No longer available. Replaced with Google Tasks.