• foggy@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Anyone else keep those screenshots they accidentally take of their home screen because they know they’ll drunkenly accidentally delete an icon on their home screen and have no idea what icon is missing because they never use it but they e grown accustomed to it and want it back the way it was?

    Just me?

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      That feeling of I know there used to be a specific app where this empty space is but I can’t remeber which one has driven me crazy a few times, now a days I just lock the home screen so it can’t be accidentally changed

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Nope, I don’t use the home screen - it’s such a terrible idea.

      I use folders on every device*, using the same structure, that way all software/tools are categorized the same though they’re different on each OS.

      *Except iOS because it sucks from a customization standpoint.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Gross.

        For PC I use my launchers. For phone I have ~12 apps plus a weather widget on on screen, then device diagnostics and a Spotify widget on the next.

        My whole “apps” folder on android, however, is 8 folders (Google, Games, Utilities, Info, Market, etc)

        Minimizes interaction for most used apps. Your process would require two taps to use your most used apps. 🤢

    • nagaram@startrek.website
      4·
      2 months ago

      I rearrange my icons all the time thinking “no this will be more efficient” and I just never really know where everything is.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’ve got 19,347 links saved in my current Read Later app. How often do I actually open it to get back to something? At most once a month for one thing, usually less.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’ve hit the limit on safari tabs on my phone multiple times. When you open something in a new tab at that point, it just cannibalizes a tab you haven’t visited recently, but you can use the back button to find out what it was.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    I hope I put the right tags or keywords in the thing that I save cause that’s the only way I’m ever finding it again

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Oh man I think about this a lot. I have some thoughts.

    1. The more complicated of a system, the less likely you are to use it.
    2. Complicated systems are self defeating.
    3. A system you use is always better than a perfect system you don’t.

    I try to make notes about where my previous notes are when I make new ones so I don’t lose them.

    I try to keep one or two physical ways to jot things down. I use a boogie board and a pocket journal. I use a disposable flimsy one. The temporary look of it helps me not treat it as some perfect log book that needs a perfect system. Avoid any and all “bullet journaling” tips lol. That’s a road to complexity. My system is:

    1. If I need to remember something, I write it down.
    2. If I don’t need to remember it anymore, I cross it out. If a page has nothing I need to remember and no real room for new still, I rip it out.

    For digital notes I use Google Keep on my phone and an Obsidian Workplace in a synced folder for Google Drive. I DO NOT stress about making perfectly organized Obsidian documents that link to each other. I just write what I need as I need it. My Obsidian stuff is a little more organized but I sort of haven’t used it in a while.

    All forms of this is your way of communicating with your future self and how your future self will look for messages from you. Viewing it like this helps make it clear what sort of things you need to keep track of and also sort of sounds cool so it makes it exciting.