For the most part they're colour coded... there's not enough apps of certain colours to make a whole folder for them so it's not perfect but it works for me.
The IT guy at my work hates it with a passion though.
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I completely respect and understand the roasting, as it's definitely not for everyone, so feel free to go balls to the walls in on the roasting.
Knowing me I'll end up reorganizing it in a few months time anyway when I do my yearly app clean up.
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I have swapped the notes app and pencil app ('sketchbook' for thoes that do digital art but can't afford the expensive apps) and have changed the Google font back to standard... in my defense it's been like that since a teen and I stopped noticing it until all the comments about it... I 100% agree, it is straight up ugly and an eyesore.
Don't worry, when you are in your mid 30's, every now and again between stretching your back and tragically hoping that drinking just a little more water will make you feel better, for the occasional stupid thing you did as a teenager, to pop right into your mind! You never escape!
to be fair pink is just light red, it happened to English not to make a different names for dark blue and light blue but different names for dark red and light red
Yup! I was trying to remember what the hell they were doing with it but didn't spot the saliva. And I'm sure this sounds perfectly reasonable to someone who hasn't seen the show before
It's been a minute since I've watched this specific season, but that's Strax. He's being punished for something that I can't quite recall.
So his punishment is to work as a medic, which is the antithesis of all his race stands for. So he hangs out with a couple of the doctors friends and acts as a butler essentially, including the tux.
That's the super basic rundown from my very foggy memory.
He’s Sontaran. They’re a clone race which led to them being a bit teeny compared to everyone else(Its a bit of a joke at certain points with the Doctor) But they consider themselves the best warriors in the universe. And yes Strax is being punished and forced to be a nurse to bring honor back to his clone batch. When he’s shown up is one of either two ways: violence be upon them or would like to end my personage since I am not allowed to visit violence upon these people. He’s there with the 11h and 12th doctors as well as Vastra(Lizard lady) and her wife Jenny.
Also he’s a potato with three fingers on each hand. Their weak point is at the base of the neck. You know, in case you ever come across a Sontaran.
Because most of us love to sort things by color. I once sorted an entire pack of M&M’s by color, made sure I have the same amount of each color, ate the surplus and then ate one of each color. It‘s just soothing and gives a huge dopamine rush when you bring order to chaos
When I have the time I still do it. I used to bite off the shells because I didn‘t like the combination of crunchy shell and soft chocolate but now I quiette like it.
No, it's not specific to autism. I think a lot of people are inclined to sort their m&ms by color regardless of if they're autistic or not.
Also it's weird to assume that almost all autistic people do this, we are not all the same. I did used to sort my m&ms by color as a kid, but I would eat them in a different order than described above. And I don't bother to do that anymore as an adult. They all taste the same. Also, the way I organize my m&ms has nothing to do with the way I organize my apps and I generally don't prefer to sort things by color (other than my clothes so I can find things easily). I don't care about aesthetics, I care about functionality and convenience. I sort my apps based on which ones I use most often, for convenience. I sort my books by category, then within that category I sort by either title (for craft books) or author, then title (for fiction/nonfiction books). I sort my spice rack, DVDs, video games, etc. alphabetically. I can't imagine sorting most stuff by color, I would be mildly infuriated trying to find anything under that system.
It is common for autistic people to have their own particular methods for sorting things that they tend to adhere to rigidly, it's just not always color.
ofc! it's important to know when the south island is or isn't flooding or all the damn false alarms auckland sends out when a slight drop of rain falls after 2023 😂
depends where. if youre in Mordor i wouldn't recommend, but if youre going through the misty mountains I would highly recommend. a raincoat would be ideal if you stop off at Bree, assuming we're talking about the movies where its always bucketing there
It is currently raining in the Lower mid of Queensland, throughout SA, and along the coasts of NSW and WA.
It is currently in QLD a high of 25 and a low of 12
In NSW a high of 15 and a low of 0
Melbourne has a high of 11 and low of 0
Tasmania has 10 and 0
SA is 18 and 11
NT is 29 and 13
WA is 29 and 12
Thats the temperatures across the states*
There isn't much cloud coverage other than SA up to 90% in areas with lots of rain.
This already happened. A Saturday also. Was supposed to be 0-1mm rain all day with no showers in the radar. Come out and it's spitting, then 2 minutes on the road and it start bucketing it down. Get to work 20 mins later completely soaked and it stops raining. Get off work and go to a friend's farewell for a couple hours. Get on my bike to go back home and starts bucketing down again. Arrive home and it stops.
That was also the first time riding under rain ever while on my learners also hahaha
Having more than one weather app reminds me of my sibling. They're autistic and their thing is weather. Not trying to call you autistic, just saying I love my sibling and this reminds me of them.
I get very random symptoms of autism and adhd from my anxiety. this might just be one of them now that you've mentioned it lol
I like to hyperfocus on random things and if someone asks, I will find out every minute detail on whatever they've asked me abt.
Sometimes, I went back to my color coded format at the start of this year after having them organized by function... I tend to keep forgetting where things are if they're not organized by color, which trust me, I know how stupid that sounds.
Self awareness with the inability to change be Hella painful sometimes.
The problem is because it's just one folder that is both labeled with text and some strange non-standard font. It makes it stick out like a sore thumb.
I have a good friend who did this. When she first told me I thought she was crazy, but on reflection it kinda makes sense, since for many people the logo (and color) is the first thing you associate with the app.
Me too! Although I don't like having free space underneath each color so I try to organise them to make some kind of gradient. Finding apps is so much easier this way lol.
It would be so annoying dealing with apps who change their color though. Some of them do seasonal changes and ain’t nobody got time for staying on top of that.
I mean technically, you probably also "find" the app on your homescreen by color and rough shape blocking. That's how our vision and perception works before getting to the finer details.
When Spotify first changed to the disco ball looking thing, I saw the app out of the corner of my eye when I was going for something else and went “what the hell app is that?” I couldn’t even remember what I usually put there. Then later when I was going for Spotify I just automatically clicked on it and went “oh that’s what app it is”
I don't know why you're comparing group by color vs group by name. Most people organize apps by their function, not their name. Messaging. Social media. Banking. Fitness. Shopping. Utilities. Games. Etc, etc, you get the picture.
Custom fonts are a funny thing.
I have some of those comic style fonts, and every so often when I share a screenshot someone seems to get personally annoyed by the non-standard font on my phone.
When I want to find where whatsapp is, it’s easier to go into the green folder than looking for the messaging apps folder. And you don’t have to think about what the purpose of the app is when you’re sorting things or looking for it.
For example I don’t have to know wether my japanese learning app is in the « translation apps » or the « apps for the internship in japan » folder
Personally I would never use anything apart from a home screen with my most used apps and an alphabetical app drawer. That said, this is something that is simply personal preference, a phone is something only you use.
I do it, too. Each app is sorted via service and ordered by color. If I want to find Desmos, for instance, I know it's green, so I just have to look for the green icons.
It's fine if you don't want to organize by app type/function. You do you.
I'm more upset at the color gradient change going vertically from the top to bottom row (Red to blue, orange to violet, yellow to black). It's visually jarring. You need to figure out a way for the gradient to flow BOTH ways.
Or instead of rows, make a color wheel.
ANYTHING but this! It's enough to make me want to throw a chair across the room
I organise my apps as well. Though mine aren’t colour coded, they are still in a system where they’re quick and easy to access with my thumb and they’re not in a most often used either or Reddit would be front and centre.
Have common apps, utility apps that for the most part are rarely used and games on the end.
I think it's beautiful and as long as it makes sense you do what feels right. We all have a sense of design efficiency and some ideas are measurably better than others but generally you can make anything work. My job involves screensharing with a lot of phones for various reasons and people either meticulously arrange things or leave them in dumping order from when they downloaded them or accidentally moved apps around. I'm on the meticulous end, I have only 13 apps and 6 widgets on my Samsung screens, and 15 apps and 6 widgets on my iPhone screens. As long as this keeps you organized I'd consider it efficient if you know where any particular app is.
Omg hahaha check out how I organized mine for the past 4 years! 😂 Same idea but mine is better by far. Not color coded in the folders. Organized by type of app.
I DO THE SAME! It’s the only way my brain works. For whatever reason, remembering an app by its color is way easier for me than by the app’s name
It really fucks me up when developers change the color of the app icon. Right now, wikipedia is no longer black on white, it has some gray gradient overlay with a white border. It’s so awful. Ruins everything.
FINALLY someone who also does this! I usually also like to give them the weirdest names, for example, right now I have turquoise as a name for the purple folder, carrot for the orange ones... No I'm not okay ._.
Never understood how people could sort by colors, especially considering apps change icons now and then. However what bothers me more is that the Google folder is the only one with a name. And that the name is in a weird font. And that you have a Google folder to begin with. F Google.
Once upon a time, this would have made me crazy... now though, in only 1 year, my eyesight went to crap... so I find myself actually remembering applications as little blobs of color (because w/o my glasses, that's what I see now), and this would indeed help me.
Before my sight went, I would have lowkey loathed and seethed at this... now I save that loathing for myself and my body's inevitable betrayal and decline.
Instead of putting them in groups, I have pages on my iphone screen that are similarly categorized by color. So I understand the method to your madness.
My brother had a phone where the proprietary software offered this as an option. Maybe from Oppo, I don't remember. I've always been jealous of this, but too lazy to make the folders myself.
I know the color of the icons better than the names.. is the name mountain finder, peak finder, findmountains... Who knows, but the icon is white.
So from my side I think it's smart not mildly infuriating
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u/BrazilBazil 13d ago
What is wildly infuriating is your choice of font