Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,sci.electronics.repair Subject: Re: How to create an EMERGENCY folder on a mobile device (and what to put inside) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 07:49:46 +1100 Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: <1VPHz.688$pE2.335@fx16.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net e/1k56eomqlp01M/iRRifQlO0+wsTB4CRtZizmD+gAJXknFgk= Cancel-Lock: sha1:miqZbA/GRSgKJCs2liZFeBhalgU= In-Reply-To: <1VPHz.688$pE2.335@fx16.iad> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:93310 comp.mobile.android:34983 sci.electronics.repair:73944 John McGaw wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> John McGaw wrote >>> Horace Algier wrote >>>> Do you create an EMERGENCY folder on your mobile device (and what do >>>> you put inside)? >>> Simple answer is: if you've been sensible and put a strong passcode on >>> your phone then anything in this EMERGENCY folder will be pretty much >>> useless unless someone manages to break into your phone if they lay >>> hands on it. >> He's actually talking about what he uses himself in emergency situations. >>> All I do on my Android devices is to enter a 'lock screen message' which >>> shows my name, mailing address (P.O. Box, not actual street address) and >>> several emergency contact numbers. >> That’s not the sort of emergency he is talking about. > Why a folder? He's that obsessively anal. He forces his kids to use his folder arrangements and locks their devices down so they can't change that stuff. He hasn’t realised that they will be picking his nursing home... > There are multiple 'home' screens available and these theoretically useful > apps can just be placed on, lets say, the last one. As one thinks of new > possibilities they can be placed there and if they later seem to be of > less use they can be removed. He's too obsessively anal for that. > I can't actually think of too many apps that would be useful only in an > emergency and only in an emergency Me neither. Tho you can certainly make a case for having icons for the stuff you do use in an emergency in a single emergency folder where they are all grouped together and where you can see them all at once, in a system which allows duplicate icons for the stuff that is useful in an emergency. > since they come in an infinite number of forms. Not really that infinite. > Personally I keep a 'daily' screen, a 'news and information' screen, a > 'travel' screen, and an 'entertainment' screen. I don’t myself, I have the one main screen and have a few folders on that for the groups of stuff like banks and other financial institutions like credit unions, clouds, shopping etc, basically so that I do almost everything from that one main screen. > Guess I could move some stuff around and have 'emergency' one at the end. I think its better to have an emergency folder on the main screen for those who can get flustered in an emergency. I don’t, so don’t bother myself. > Just me, I guess... I'd be surprised if some don’t do it that way too. That's essentially what was asking, who does what, and why do they do it the way they do.