Sure, why not.
IOS 14 gave us widgets, Underscore David Smith gave us Widgetsmith and Stephen Millard gave us an awesome Shortcut for creating icons (Stream Deck Icon Generator | ThoughtAsylum) as heard on Automators #68: Stephen Millard and ThoughtAsylum - Relay FM. He said it was for Stream Deck, and yes, I use them there as well. However, they’re great on iOS.
When I found the ‘Terminal’ theme in Widgetsmith I knew what I had to do. So far, that is this:
(Can you guess when I started using computers?)
The Widgetsmith widgets are self-explanatory, I think. The middle one is actually a stack that will also show weather for the next few hours, stocks, and Pennant (for baseball season). The top one is timed to switch to the Moon phase at night.
The book opens Kindle, the fork-knife opens a menu that shows, uh, the week’s menus. It also can show where we’ve gotten pizza recently and open the app for the chosen pizza. We may have a pizza problem at my house… The music icon is Federico’s MusiBot shortcut. There aren’t more icons right now because I’ve found the library does a pretty good job of having what I want on top, which is pretty good since Settings says I have 330 installed.
The dock is an Apple menu (still playing with that), safari, messages, and phone.
The second screen is more work-related with Timery and Omnifocus across the top and my calendar next. That usually has more than sports stuff on it.
I used the shortcut to create two sets of icons; one set to match the black background and one to match the dock background.
Foreground = #33ff33
Background = #000000
Dock Background = #252525
Still a work in progress, but a lot of fun. Stephan Millard’s shortcut is genius and makes it so easy. I’m sure other folks can be more creative.
Go Blues! Do you think we’ll ever play anyone other than the Coyotes?
I thought maybe the playoffs had started or something and I’d just missed it.
A bit late to the party, but I just upgraded to iPhone 12 Mini from iPhone SE 2016.
Basically the arrangement and wallpaper is the same from my previous setup on SE. The only difference is the 6 vs 5 rows.
Tried Things and Due, but I went back to Reminders because the sync is the most reliable, and I can have shared tasks with my partner and parents.
I am mostly on the desktop, coding, so the time on my phone spent mostly for podcast or article feeds.
I’ve been tinkering a lot with the updated version of launcher, and find it really useful with iOS14 widgets.
I use my phone for a lot of things, and so have tried to lay out my screens with common themes, and in the order of greatest to least use. (I wish though we could simply re-arrange screens in any order. My Home Screen is my most used apps and information. Then I have a photography screen; Finance, News and Socia (with launcher stacks); Public Transport & Ride Sharing; Parking & Navigation; Fitness & Quantified Self; Audio & Video; Time & Scheduling; Communication and Security; Travel & Accommodation.
I still have a couple of pages to sort out, and some I think I will continue to use folders rather than launcher widgets because i do want to see badge notifications on a very few apps, and launcher doesn’t display them at all.
I think it’s time for @MacSparky to post his promised homescreen! Let’s see those widgets David!
How are you showing 5 columns of icons? I hate that you can only have 4 columns/6 rows and 4 items in the dock regardless of whether you have a Max or a Mini. It’s one of the things I miss about Android.
I am using Launcher.
Thanks! That looks very interesting. I may give it a try.
