Our friends from Share your Office are organizing the first Clean your Office International Day on May 24th. As office mates, we would like share this great initiative and spread the word. Feel free to join the movement! (link in French)

Moreover, we decided to contribute to this cause and push the idea to the next level. Nowadays our mobile phones are our first office, so we would like to invite you to clean up your smartphone!

We are constantly swiping through 10 screens on our phone’s springboard to find out the right app (or are bond to using Spotlight anytime we want to reach something). Here is a set of advise to clean up your phone’s homescreen:

1. Have a deep look at each of your apps and ask this question to yourself “How many times did I use this app during the last month?”. You will delete useless apps at first sight.
2. Sort and use apps folders for dedicated contexts such as Work, Family, Travel.
3. Some weird minds sort their apps by the icon color: find out your own mnemonics.
4. Set yourself a goal: for instance, you aim at reducing the screen number by a factor of 2. If it’s too difficult, iterate during severals days, removing 5 apps per day.

You should be all set! You phone is now fully operational for high productivity! So don’t forget: on May 24th, clean up your phone!

Then, you may find some room for one of our games, who knows ;-)