What You Said: How You Organize Your Apps

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Published on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT Indexed on 2012/03/23 17:34 UTC
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Earlier this week we asked you to share your tips and tricks for keeping your apps organized and accessible; now we’re back to showcase some great reader tips to help you manage your mountain of apps.

One of the trends was striving for consistency across environments. Henrique highlights how this plays out on a dual OS setup:

On my windows desktop I use the taskbar and to keep my day to day applications (basically firefox, itunes, office, adobe, evernote and wunderkit), and whenever I need something else, I use windows built in search, which is quite fast, despite needing a few more clicks than spotlight would.

On my macbook the dock is basically mirrors my taskbar, and I use spotlight for other applications, but launchpad is wining my heart a bit more every day. It’s faster then than accessing the applications folder and the windows start menu, and possibly even than spotlight, at least for apps

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