Organizing my space

[Icegoddess]

OK, I've had a Droid phone for awhile now, but just got the Note 10.1. I am confused by the menus. What is the purpose of the Home menu vs the Apps menu. Some of the stuff I downloaded automatically went to my Home menu, and all went to the apps menu on different pages. I have no use for those Hubs on the home page and would rather put apps that I use frequently there. Can I just get rid of them?

And what's with the Widgets tab? All you can do with them is move them around. They don't seem to do anything. If I tap on a widget it just brings up a note that says if I press and hold I can move it. What am I missing?

 

[boxer2]

OP could have said thanks, smh.

 

[Icegoddess]

OP has been off the grid. I do appreciate the help. The analogy makes sense. I am a Mac person, and for me Widgets work on the page where they are placed called the Dashboard. Therefore, I couldn't understand why you couldn't click on them or something and do something with them. I love my Mac Widgets. A lot of this stuff might be more intuitive for Windows people although I can to Windows also, just not as knowledgeable about it. I'm not totally inept though; I got Flash up and running with no problem.

 

[bluzman]

OP has been off the grid. I do appreciate the help. The analogy makes sense. I am a Mac person, and for me Widgets work on the page they are placed called the Dashboard. Therefore, I couldn't understand why you couldn't click on them or something and do something with them. I love my Mac Widgets. A lot of this stuff might be more intuitive for Windows people although I can to Windows also, just not as knowledgeable about it. I'm not totally inept though; I got Flash up and running with no problem.

A couple of other things that help to organize:
1) If you long press an icon on your Home page, you can drag it to the upper left and drop it on "Create Folder". I use this feature to make folders that group apps with common functionality, say email clients or web browsers.
2) If you pinch with thumb and index finger on "Home" page, you get a screen that shows that you've actually got multiple home pages. You can add, delete and rearrange them from this screen.

 

[Icegoddess]

Thanks. I'll have t play with that. When I was trying to figure out how to toggle the keyboard between the little notepad and a keyboard I kept getting this message about pinching the fingers together on the keyboard to change it. However, I was on the little notepad and every time I tried it there, it just wanted to draw a line.

BTW, where do I find the setting to ignore my palm. I keep resting my palm on the tablet and accidentally bringing things up.