Folders

Folders group your binders and lists in the collection hub. A folder holds one kind of collection — binder folders hold binders, list folders hold lists.

A folder can also hold folders of its own kind, three levels deep: a folder, a folder inside it, and one more inside that.

Working with folders

• Create a folder with the + in the Collection header: Create new → Folder, then its name, Color identifier and Folder for (Binders or Lists), and Create folder. On the web, New folder on your Binders or Lists page makes one (Folders on the web), and a new binder or list made inside a folder there starts in it.
• Open a folder for its own screen: a header that counts what it holds at every level (32 binders · 203 cards · 162 unique, lists in a list folder), the folders inside it under Folders, then its binders or lists, a ＋ that creates new ones directly inside, and a ⋯ menu for the folder itself. Inside a folder that sits in another one, a line over the title names the folders above it.
• Search inside a folder in the app with the field under its header, Search binders or Search lists. It filters the folders and the binders or lists of that level by name; what sits in deeper folders is not searched. Nothing found shows No matches. Each level keeps its own search: a folder you open starts with an empty field, and going back returns to the search you left. While selecting, Select visible adds the rows the search shows and rows it hides stay selected; Reorder clears the search and lists the whole folder.
• A folder's row says how many binders or lists it holds, counting every level, and how many folders sit directly inside it: 19 items · 2 folders.

Folders inside folders

• Make one from inside a folder: the ＋ in its header opens Create new with two choices, the folder's own kind (Binder or List) and Folder. In a folder of the third level the form only makes a binder or a list.
• Move a folder with Move in its menu: press and hold its row, or use ⋯ inside it. The folder picker opens; No folder takes it back out. A folder moves with everything inside it.
• A folder that would take the tree past three levels shows dimmed in the picker and cannot be picked.
• On the web, your Binders and Lists pages draw the same tree: a folder opens on the folders inside it, with the trail of folders above it in the title, and New folder inside one makes a folder there. More → Move inside a folder opens the folder picker for it.

Moving things

Move in a binder's or list's management sheet (press and hold its row in the hub or inside a folder) opens the folder picker:

• a search field over all your folders of that kind, drawn as a tree: each folder is followed by the folders inside it, indented a step per level;
• how many binders or lists each one holds, at the end of its row;
• No folder at the top, which takes it out of every folder;
• a mark on the place it is in today.

Tap a folder and it moves. The same picker opens from Parent folder when you create a binder or a list.

On the web — More → Move to folder on the page of a binder, a list, a deck or a view opens the same picker: the search, No folder, the tree with each level indented under its parent, how much each folder holds under its name, and a check on where it is today. Typing in the search lists the matching folders only. When it is already in a folder, the menu entry and the picker's title read Change folder. Parent folder (optional) in the create sheet of a binder or a list opens the same tree.

Order

Press and hold a folder and tap Reorder to drag the folders of that level into place: the top-level ones in the hub, or the folders inside the one you have open. Done saves it and switches your folders to My own order in Settings → Sorting & layout (Sorting & layout). Binders and lists reorder the same way from their own menus.

Deleting a folder

• Delete a folder from its menu (press and hold it, or ⋯ inside it), or swipe its hub row left. The confirmation says what it holds will be moved out of the folder: This folder contains 3 binders and 1 folder. They will be moved out of the folder.
• Deleting a folder keeps its contents. Its binders or lists, and the folders inside it, move up one level: into the folder it was in, or to the top level when it was in none.
• The folder itself goes to Recently deleted; restoring it brings the folder back empty (its former contents stay where they are), inside the folder it was in if that one is still there.

To move or delete several folders, binders or lists at once, see Selecting several.

Decks have their own folder system — see Decks.