510 - How to Organize Smartphone Apps for Quick Access

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Eliminate smartphone slowdown with a surprisingly simple trick: Each time you use an app, drag its icon to your home screen in the upper left position. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/organization/how-to-organize-smartphone-apps-for-instant-access Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0	This is Stevea Robbins.
0:01.7	Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.0	If you're like me, you live on your phone.
0:11.4	Also, if you're like me, you're 5'10, ravishingly sexy, brilliant beyond belief, and yet compellingly modest.
0:17.2	You have apps for this and apps for that.
0:19.1	Indeed, you may be listening to this very podcast or reading the transcript on your phone at this very moment.
0:25.5	But have you ever stopped to consider how much your smartphone drags down your productivity?
0:30.2	We all know about notifications.
0:31.6	It's time for an appointment.
0:32.7	Ping.
0:33.3	Someone posted a must-read article about hairless albino mole rats?
0:36.8	Ping.
0:37.3	New email? Ping. Someone wants a schmoo article about hairless albino mole rats. Ping. New email?
0:38.1	Ping.
0:38.7	Someone wants a schmoopee for an hour.
0:40.5	Ping.
0:41.0	Incoming call, ping.
0:42.5	Ping.
0:42.8	Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.
0:44.7	In episode 445, we covered how to de-addictify your technology, and turning off notifications is, of course, one way to do it.
0:52.3	But your smartphone drags down your brain. Smartphones suck.
0:57.2	They slow you down. The interface is inefficient and unusable. You have to take your mind off
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