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Increasing workflow efficiency on the ipad
I was setting up a new ipad mini 4 when I was inspired by a friend to approach app management in an entirely different way.
After only a day I'm already noticing a complete workflow improvement which is good because I've been getting very annoyed with ios lately.
Simply put, I hate the multi-page aspect of the ios homescreen. For me, it sucks my desire to explore my apps, and this is only more pronounced when I have multiple filled to the brim folders on multiple filled to the brim pages.
So, having a set of folders available on every page which would include my most important apps, which I can then logically compare against my sea of apps on other pages keeps me in a much more clear frame of mind than feeling like I'm randomly surfing multiple pages.
Obviously, I haven't filled this new ipad up yet, but that will be more intentional as I'm going to make another thread about a completely different approach I'm going to take with ios this year.
By the way, the limit of folders on that app bar seems to be 6 on the ipad mini 4.
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Increasing workflow efficiency recommendation: delete Minecraft
But yeah I had to toss everything I don't use daily into folders and off the home page so as not to get distracted by fiddling and actually accomplish what I originally set out to do.
Great suggestion. It reminded me of my workflow on my Windows computers which makes heavy use of shortcuts to key folders. Alas, a Google search suggests folder shortcuts do not exist on ios.
I'm the exact opposite - I love the multi-screen approach and in general don't like / use folders much. I do use them in the quick launch bar, and I group a couple of the FX on my FX page by vendor, but that's about it. Otherwise I keep a couple of pages for synths, one for FX, one for guitar, one for drums, one for other music apps, a couple for other apps, and the last page has a single folder with all the unused, undesired, and unremovable Apple-supplied apps in it.
I'm with @MusicInclusive on this one; I only recently discarded using the groups and went back to lots of pages organised by category, and now I can actually find stuff when I want it.
I still try to organise by colour of icon. Each page is for apps of a certain colour way. Except dark blue — there’s more of those, they need two pages.
I'm with @MusicInclusive and @JiggyWig and adding the minimalist approach...but thats more about only having 32gb.
I have realized I only need about 10 apps, ok maybe 15 haha
Each page really amounts to a kind of folder anyway, albeit a folder with a limit of 20 icons/subfolders, setting aside the launchbar at the bottom.
Right, but I can see what the icons are when they're not in folders @miguelmarcos
I use now the "finder" also on my iPhone instead of scrolling trough 200+ apps.
Works really good.
In terms of workflow one thing I started doing a little while ago that helped was numbering my tunes as I make new ones so that I know a given patch in a synth of effect app is relevant to a given tune I am working on by its prefix number. Makes revisiting older stuff a little easier.
I have been using a hashtag project naming system for about six or seven months (mainly brought about by the necessities of SOTMC) and it's helped a lot.
Essentially as I'm working on a notion or a noodle, if I think it might actually be the guts of an idea for a song/piece I prefix the title with hashtag 3,. If it's getting there and I actually think it might or could/should be a song I hashtag it 2 and then when I'm committed to it (however raw actually) it becomes a hashtag 1. Once finished, hashtag 0. This helps me tidy up my mind first (what IS this, what value does or may it have?) and then saves things so that (say) in Auria I am presented with pieces of a similar level in the list next to each other. Subsequent benefit being the promotion or demotion etc as work goes along.
This has worked well and also helps me assess/cull things that never earned even the lowest level hashtag. Which are legion....
I find the least confusing approach is simply to work on the same tune for 35 years.
Unfortunately, some little critters in my life won't allow it.
I have a skin and everything
It seems like they keep making more of their apps non-deletable. It's a travesty!
I'm kind of fiddling with determining which route to take with the less used apps.
I really hate swiping a couple of pages away and getting an information overload of all the other apps and their potential.
I suppose I'd like having a workflow app that lets me set up app chains for any type of purpose, so I could have a single app which would contain my favorite workflows.
Not unlike Audiobus in a way... hint to Sebastian and Michael.
I once tried laying all my apps out that way, but I think it was limited to 16 pages before apps started disappearing, and the amount of swiping was maddening.
Very interesting AudioGus and JohnnyGoodyear.
It better be a hit!
Feel free to add of screenshot of your setup ya'll.
I'm the opposite of organized when it comes to my iPad or computer. My apps are not arranged at all - I've just left everything where they appeared after installing. I've got 4 pages of random unsorted apps. The only thing I've done is put Audiobus and Loopy onto the bottom bar cause I use them often enough. I've only used folders on my iPad to put a bunch of the Apple installed apps I never ever use.
I've been using docked folders like this for a while now. My iPhone and iPad both have single-page home screens as a result, and I couldn't be happier.
Yep. Spotlight is the way for me. On Mac too.
I do have two folders in my app bar thing full of stuff I use commonly. On iPad that a folder of music apps (single screen) and a folder of media consumption apps. Phone is one music, one random (email, yelp...).
That's an awesome idea @JohnnyGoodyear. I'm definitely going to try that. Do you run into apps that won't allow a hash in the file name?
I do something similar but ugh ugh, it's so barbaric. Universal state saving please!
+1 for Spotlight.
Audiobus 3! (apparently...)
I haven't (unlike, say, the markup here
), but then I do it mostly in Auria and have (very productively) started sorting through all of AudioShare and 'rating' sounds there the same. Helps wheat and chaff sorting very well. I must beg tiredness or would run off just to check......oh bugger it. Hang on.
Yup. Works fine in NS. And, of course, the great ancillary benefit is that all those you've marked/hashtagged turn up at the top of the list....
Brilliant, once again, @u0421793.
My first belly laughs of 2016. Thanks!
Hahahaha
It's all in your head. The work to increase efficiency/productivity could start by clearing your desk but I think it is ultimately down to your own time/goal/whatever management.
I've realised (might not work for others) that focusing on say 10 apps and really learning them well helps, rather than having all of those 'noise' apps scattered everywhere.
The same. Great idea.
Spotlight is also my main shortcut. The slight pause before the OS readjusts its result list though annoyingly gets me clicking on web search instead of the app fairly often though.
I miss 'shortcut-to-app-icons' in IOS. If they were there, I would make project-folders with shortcuts to apps that I would like to experiment with, etc. So you could have many shortcuts to the same app, but for different purposes.