How do you lay out your iPhone? how do you lay out your mobile phone home page
well mine is super simple now i only just changed this yesterday using ios 14. but
what i'm going to show you here is how i choose which apps are going to make it onto my mobile
phone and and this can apply even if you're using an android or something else now often when people
do these here's what i've got on my own i'm on my mobile phone and they they will choose
the most frequently used apps and in a sense that kind of makes sense but if you want to get rid of
something if you're finding that you're spending too much time for example on social media
then what you probably want to do is create some friction for yourself make it a little bit
more awkward and so that's really really a very important key to my mobile phone so what i'm
going to do is i'm going to record my mobile phone screen now and to do that i scroll back up here to
slide right from the down and from the bottom up and i'm going to hit that white circle there
and that's going to allow me to record my phone now i could actually do it with the microphone
as well but i'm not going to do that because i'm already recording my self on the laptop and
then i down arrow there so the apps that i've got here well so the first one is for me to
on the top is to me to to walk 10 000 steps a day and having it right there in my face is a
reminder hey anthony it's time for you to go for a walk so that way i i know that i'm going to get in
my say my six kilometers a day which is maybe about three and a half four miles a day of walking
the next one is google calendar so that's very important for me to keep on top of appointments
especially appointments with others now the next one is asana and that is something that i use for
keeping track of not just a to-do list but my procedures so for example when i create a youtube
video i've got a set of procedures that i need to check off i need to create the title and
the description and tags and thumbnails and so on yes i could keep all of that in my head but
having that procedure there means a couple of things one is that i'm going to be consistent i've
got a checklist i'm going to be more efficient in doing that in doing it i can also outsource it to
somebody else potentially by saying here is the procedure and another one is that if i've got the
procedure i can then document it i can then create a video about saying here is my procedure and by
the way if you're wondering how i do all of that then check out this video here that i'm linking to
right now which shows you how i create a system a very simple system using the asana tool you
can use trello you can use something else now you can see messages is there camera and service nsw
service nsw nsw is for new south wales which is where i live and that is used for me to be able to
check in when i go to a cafe for example that's in service new south wales for the qr codes same with
the camera i want those to be at my fingertips google chrome for searching i don't use safari
linkedin for the social media which is really the only social media channel that i that i really
use actively and the idea here the principle here is that you want to put in the things
that are most that you use most frequently the things that you want to be using most frequently
make them convenient the docs and the sheets they probably surprise you having those on my mobile
phone so google docs is like it's something that you would generally use on a laptop and that's for
documenting stuff for writing stuff well i often am on the road i'm often walking around and i'm
i'm just taking notes for myself of a blog post that i'm going to write the video i'm going to
create or of a service offering that i'm going to create or something else something else that i do
for one of my clients and so i will put that into google docs having it on my mobile phone makes it
nice and easy for me to add stuff really quickly google sheets once again probably surprises you
to see it on the mobile phone because sheets is a spreadsheet thing and spreadsheets are hard enough
as it is let alone on the mobile phone most of us find them a bit cumbersome right but having
the sheets there means that i can very quickly go straight to a spreadsheet so that if i need to for
example keep track of my youtube statistics and so you can see the yt studio youtube studio there
zoom once again that's for me to be able to connect into a meeting quickly and gmail
which is of course my email and then right down the bottom here those three dots once again
is asana so i've got it really at my fingertips if i need to go and create a process if i need
to create a procedure because for me everything is either a project or a process project is like
a to do that i've got to get through i've got to get through this so that's if you like i've got
to serve this meal if you're running a restaurant i've got to create this meal because somebody has
ordered it but a project means i've got a recipe for it so that it's repeatable okay but how do
you work out which apps go on to this now to put an app on i press hard and you can see the minus
sign see them all shaking there and then that's that allows me to drag it to wherever i want it
and then i press the home button and then it is there now there is no way that i want to keep
what's out there on my home page so i'm going to take that off again because i can just click
on edit home screen and then drag that off again now how do you work out which apps belong on your
home page well here's how i did it so in terms of the frequency that you use apps yes that is one
factor but what if you've got an app that you use frequently and you don't want to use it frequently
so what i did was i listed all of those apps the ones that i know that i used pretty much every day
and then i thought well okay i scored them on one to five how often do i use these on my mobile
phone so anchor is for me to create a podcast yes do i need to have that on my mobile phone or could
i just use it on the laptop if i've got a backup if i've got another way that i can access this
then maybe my mobile phone is going to be used really for premium premium access so it scores a
one in terms of frequency and now but frequency isn't the only thing i also wanted to get the
urgency i'll speak about these two in a moment if i've got for example let's say that i'm getting to
a coffee shop and when i get in there i want to be able to grab my phone quickly and i want to
scan myself in i don't want to be queuing up and i don't want to have a lot of people waiting behind
me while i'm scanning the qr code so that's why i've got the camera and and and the other app from
from the new south wales government to allow me to scan quickly to scan that qr code so that
that's why that service new south wales one scores high on terms and and the camera as
well the two of them score fairly high in terms of here's how fast i want to be able to access this
whereas something like a social media thing it's not going to be an urgent one
then i'm asking about the importance you've got the eisenhower matrix where you've got you've
got what's important and what's not important what's urgent what's not urgent and some things
are urgent but they're not important and some things are important but they're not urgent
so we really want to to try and work out okay this is not so much what i'm actually doing but what i
want to be doing in terms of importance a calendar is very important youtube studio
frequency yes i do use it often urgency it's probably actually a three rather than a four
and then importance i would say it's very important because youtube is important
to my business but now linkedin i'm going to give that a three out of five in terms of frequency
i can always look it up on my laptop anyway and i don't actually have to be using
the mobile phone for linkedin in terms of urgency linkedin is really not an urgent app i'm going to
score that one just a 2 there and then in terms of importance well okay i'll probably give it a 4 out
of 5. and so all i really did was i multiplied this i just worked out okay this one equals
equals frequency times urgency times importance and then whichever one scored the highest
that is going to be the top of my screen on my mobile phone okay so that's how i did it i just
sorted those now this might be all a little bit too complex for you but the idea here is that i
worked out where do i want to be focusing my time what do i want to make most convenient and most
easy to use easy to access and that's what's going on to my home screen and so once again as you can
see on the home screen those pretty much reflect what i have on this sheet here and then if i need
to add a new one i could use this widget smith you can look up some videos about how to use
widget smith to add a new app if you want to if it's not one of your apps that's already on your
mobile phone so i hope you have found this helpful let me know in the comments have you
found some productivity tip that you use that helps you get yourself more organized
especially on your mobile phone thanks for watching