May 24th, 2011 at 5:34PM
My iPhone home screen. A few notes: I’ve just switched back to Twitter from Tweetbot after a few weeks of using it as my primary Twitter app.  It is as beautiful as everyone says, but it’s also as slow as everyone says and my 3GS needs apps to be as quick as possible anymore. I’m not completely RDIO reliant for music.  I have a few CDs cached locally that I can listen to when not connected to the web, but the rest of the time I’m streaming things if I’m listening via my phone. I have this OCD thing where I need to keep the bottom row empty so that it appears “cleaner” to me.  I guess I feel like it’s a good finger-swiping area. A few weeks ago I disabled all push notifications (except for texts and voicemails).  All apps that would typically deliver push notifications now are only allowed to give me badge changes (the little red icon at the top corner).  I find this helps minimize the distractions.  I also like that I’m not bound to responding to a network as soon as something happens, but can get to it on my downtime.  This anti-push thought process includes the mail app. Be it iPhone or Android, what does your home screen look like?

My iPhone home screen.

A few notes:

  • I’ve just switched back to Twitter from Tweetbot after a few weeks of using it as my primary Twitter app.  It is as beautiful as everyone says, but it’s also as slow as everyone says and my 3GS needs apps to be as quick as possible anymore.
  • I’m not completely RDIO reliant for music.  I have a few CDs cached locally that I can listen to when not connected to the web, but the rest of the time I’m streaming things if I’m listening via my phone.
  • I have this OCD thing where I need to keep the bottom row empty so that it appears “cleaner” to me.  I guess I feel like it’s a good finger-swiping area.
  • A few weeks ago I disabled all push notifications (except for texts and voicemails).  All apps that would typically deliver push notifications now are only allowed to give me badge changes (the little red icon at the top corner).  I find this helps minimize the distractions.  I also like that I’m not bound to responding to a network as soon as something happens, but can get to it on my downtime.  This anti-push thought process includes the mail app.

Be it iPhone or Android, what does your home screen look like?

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