an iOS implementation

Where Stuff Goes

The following are some guidelines about what type of app should be stored inside each 7 Basic Types compartment:

Audio

Audio is where any audio related apps go. Naturally a music playing app goes in audio, but so do audiobook players and voice memos and musical instrument apps.

Examples: Voice Memos, Music, Podcasts

Text for Folder Name:

 ⎿________♫ 

🅐 _________⏌

Conversation

The Conversation compartment is meant for apps that facilitate dialog between you and someone else, in all its forms. The phone app, an app that allows a voice conversation via VOIP, a chat app, or an email app. Any app related to online bulletin board systems, forums and social media where the focus is on communicating back and forth belongs in the Conversation compartment.

Examples: Phone, Messages, Mail, FaceTime

Text for Folder Name:

⎿_________☎︎

🅒 _________⏌

Data

The Data compartment is for apps that generate or store key pieces of information about our lives. A weather app or an app that creates a online reservation for a flight booking, a car ride or hotel belongs in Data. If it's an app that returns fragment of data or provides a means to create new data - it will be stored in dates.

Examples: Clock, Compass, Calendar, Reminders, Weather

Text for Folder Name:

⎿_________☑︎

🅓 _________⏌

Games 

From computerized card games to first person simulators, this is where to go to start playing a game.

Text for Folder Name:

⎿_________♜

🅖 _________⏌

Imagery

Apps that create or store still images like photographs, graphics or maps find a home in this compartment along with moving images like videos and animations.

Examples: Camera, Photos, Maps

Text for Folder Name:

⎿_________❇︎

🅘 _________⏌

Text

If the app's primary function is to construct or tell a story with words then the app belongs in this folder. 

Examples: Notes, Safari

Text for Folder Name:

⎿_________✎

🅣 _________⏌

System Configuration

This folder is the storage location for anything that controls a setting for a user application and any utility that changes the look or functionality of the system. Settings, system informational apps, app stores, music stores - anything that will change how the system looks or operates is stored in System Configuration.

Examples: Settings, App Store, iTunes Store

Text for Folder Name:

⚙🅢

Configure Your iPhone 

At present the configuration process requires the manual creation of folders in iOS to accommodate the 7 Basic Types compartments.

The default configuration requires 13 iOS folders - 2 each for the Audio, Conversation, Data, Games, Imagery, and Text types and 1 folder for the System Configuration compartment.

The first folder for each Type should be one page of frequently used apps of the given Type. The second folder is for all other related Type apps that are used less frequently. The second folder can contain multiple pages.

Create a New 7BT Folder

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Note: Some characters, spacing and alignments may seem incorrect when viewed in some web browsers, however everything should look correct after cutting & pasting into iOS.

Paste the 7BT Label 

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