External storage hasn't changed much.
You create folders. Put files inside them. Create more folders inside those folders. Then eventually try to remember where everything went.
Homescreen adds the organization that's missing.
A project is rarely just a collection of files.
There are notes you want to remember. Websites you keep returning to. Documents and images. Reference materials. Downloads. Information that makes sense together even though it isn't the same type of thing.
That's what Homescreen is for.
Create a project for a client, course, business, renovation, research project, trip or anything else you want to keep organized.
Add your files.
Write and keep notes with them.
Save the links you need.
Arrange everything around the project itself.
Then open another project and do the same thing.
Instead of building another maze of folders, you build a collection of projects.
Your storage, upgraded.
Homescreen doesn't require a special type of drive.
Purchase the downloadable version and add it to any compatible external storage you already own, or choose a new drive based on the size and capacity you need.
A small USB drive can hold the projects you carry every day.
A portable SSD can organize a much larger collection of work, documents and information.
Homescreen turns the storage into something more useful without changing what makes external storage useful in the first place.
Open a project and the pieces are together.
Files keep documents, images and other project material organized.
Notes give you somewhere to keep information without creating another document.
Links keep websites and online resources attached to the project where you'll actually find them again.
Saved Links keep frequently used resources available across projects.
Search helps you find information across Homescreen when you can't remember exactly where you put it.
Templates let you reuse project structures that work for you.
Snapshots and backups give you additional ways to protect and manage important projects.
Your Homescreen lives on the external drive. This means no subscription, ever.
Plug it into a compatible Windows or Mac computer, open Homescreen and your project organization comes with it.
That makes Homescreen useful for people who work between home and the office, use more than one computer, travel with their files or simply don't want their project organization tied to a single machine.
Homescreen opens like a regular application, so it can sit alongside the programs you're already using.
Open a document. Work on it. Save it back to the project.
Your computer runs the programs.
Homescreen keeps the project together.
Even the files on your phone have somewhere to go.
Homescreen includes a simple PHONE transfer folder.
Connect your drive to a compatible phone or tablet and copy files into it using the device's regular file manager. Connect preloaded drives with a simple USB-TO-C adapter.
Back at your computer, open PHONE in Homescreen, select a file and choose the project it belongs to.
That's it.
Homescreen copies it into the project while leaving the original in the PHONE folder. You can even copy the same file into several projects when it belongs in more than one place.
Files and folders aren't going anywhere.
They just don't have to do all the work anymore.
We've spent decades organizing external storage essentially the same way. Drives got smaller. Capacities got bigger. Transfer speeds got faster.
But when you open one, you're still looking at files and folders.
Homescreen adds another layer.
A visual way to organize the information you're carrying around the things it actually belongs to.
Turn your external storage into Homescreen.
