Get some Organisation with Your Phone!
To a lot of us, a phone is just a phone. To some of us, it's a precious piece of equipment that we could class as our second computer. I know I certai...
To a lot of us, a phone is just a phone. To some of us, it’s a precious piece of equipment that we could class as our second computer. I know I certainly use my Nokia 5800 as a personal computer by using a lot of great applications and also the great web browsing experience that you get. We often download a lot of content for our phones and take no regard in it’s health or whether we’ll be able to see anything we ever put on it. In this post I’ll teach you how to organise your mobile phone so that when you’re in control of where everything is. I’ll talk you through how mine is constructed and you can use it exactly how I have, or modify my choices for your own preferance. First of all, lets take a look at my homescreen on my phone and the reasons behind my shortcuts and also how you can get your shortcuts to display on your homescreen.
My homescreen consists of 4 shortcuts that I hope Nokia can increase to something like 8 in the future. From left to right the shortcuts are GMobileXT, create a new text message, search for something on the internet, internet browser. I find that I’m using these functions more than any other on my phone so therefore it’s easier to have them on my homescreen. It’s easy to change the icons on your homescreen as well as have contacts displayed instead or at your choice, have nothing at all!
- Go to your main menu
- Tap settings
- Tap personal
- Then home screen
- To change the homescreen theme to either have it basic, shortcuts bar or contacts bar, press the ‘home screen theme’ option and change that accordingly.
- Once you’ve done that and as I have selected the shortcuts bar, you then need to go back and press the shortcuts tab and press on which number shortcut you want to change and change it either to a bookmark or application for quick access.
Main Menu
No disrespect for Nokia, they make great phones but one thing they do rubbish is organising a default layout for applications, phone core functions and whatnot. You can easily clean up all unwanted icons quickly and get organisation to your phone that will make it much easier to navigate.
This is my main menu that I load every time that I want to do something on my phone. It has all of the things that I believe are most important on a phone and they are laid out with clarity.
- Y-Browser (a must-have for the organisation of files on your phone)
- Messaging
- Contacts
- Data log (important for the amount I use the internet!)
- Internet
- Applications
- GMobileXT (my sat-nav)
- Music
- Calendar
- Settings
- Gallery
- Games (I’ve placed all my games in a folder on my main menu as they could be useful when I’m bored)
These are all within the first page that I see and you notice that I don’t have a scrollbar on this page! I would never do this as it’s important to keep everything you need within the 12 spaces that are available on that page. It’s easy to do that if you group applications etc, I’ll show you my examples of this now.I put all my other applications that are second to these in a different place and that means they all go in the ‘applications’ area. The icons are then grouped in that area too.
As you can see, this section as a scrollbar on the right, but I find this ok as this is within the area that I place all other important applications. I’ve had to scroll down in the screenshot above to show you another grouping at the bottom but at the top of them icons above is my file manager, Opera Mini and Nokia maps.
Going back to my explanation of the bottom of my applications folder. You can see an ‘office’ and a ‘dump’ folder. These folders both serve important purposes and they are that the office folder will contain all my documentation applications like Quick Office, Adobe PDF, Calculator, Converter, Recorder, etc. These applications are mainly for documenting and writing about things so they stay in this folder.
Next is the ‘dump’ folder and this folder is for everything that I will probably be touching once a month. Things that I will not be using that often and they don’t serve a huge purpose to me. The applications that I dump in here are things like help, welcome, switch, download, location, barcode, camera. I’m still not deleting these off of my phone as they are important and I could use them from time to time but I still don’t want them lounging about all over my phone and disrupting my viewing by making my scrollbars hugely long. That’s why they are all wrapped up in a folder. 
Organisation is a big thing for a lot of people and makes life a lot easier if you place everything in its right place. Don’t forget, this advice doesn’t just apply to a Nokia 5800, you can do it on any phone.
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