My 2016 Homescreen

Couple of months ago my iPhone 6S Plus was stolen and I used the opportunity to switch to the 7 plus. It was an opportunity to install everything from scratch so a lot has changed since 2015.

Work Apps I use daily

Trello is where we manage the product development (team resisted Asana after a short while and we returned to Trello). Paper is where we share documents and quick notes. Slack is where we have real-time communications. I use them multiple times a day and enable to be available for every need without requiring laptop.

Must Have Utilities

• 2Do — As a productivity geek I tried them all OmniFocus, Todoist, Asana and anything else you can think of. I did not even consider 2Do until recently and when I did it immediately clicked. It has the power of OmniFocus being fast, effortless and having the advanced features needed when you need them (vs. in your face like in OmniFocus)
• 1Password — Together with TouchID & iCloud it’s an awesome and seamless way to manage passwords
• Sync — I recently decided to stop using Dropbox to sync photos and use Sync instead. So far it’s working great and significantly faster.
• Way of Life — Discovered it through The Journal by Kevin Rose. I have love/hate relationships with it but it does a great job motivating towards creating/changing habits
• iCatcher! — My favorite Podcasts client. It has all the advanced feature for optimal consumption
• Fantastical — For a while I was happy with Google Calendar but it seems like Google are barely maintaining it. I love fantastical on the Mac and decided to make the switch (their “today” widget is also really nice).

What you do NOT see

• Zoom — Team’s favorite video and audio conferencing solution. Never going back to hangout or Skype. Given that the app is usually triggered from a link on a calendar invite you do not see it in the home screen :)
• Accompany — Started using accompany recently to be briefed towards meetings. At the moment I open it when it triggers notification before meeting with briefing on the participants. The concept is great but for many people it does not have data yet

What’s gone?

• Twitter — while it was one of my most frequently used apps a year ago I almost never open it now
• Google inbox — for a while it was awesome but as the level of emails went up processing large batch of emails was too much inefficient compared to gmail. I still miss the auto replies gmail has..
• Google Drive — this is our primary files storage at Yodas and still we use it very infrequently. Dropbox paper cover most of our needs. The only use case for us to really sync files is to backup design work from Sketch and a photoshop..
• Dropbox — I even stopped it from running the Mac app in the background. I sync very infrequently and manually