Folders and collections

A collection gathers creatives in the Library. A folder gathers saved ads in Radar. Neither of them is a drawer you put the only copy into: both are lists that point at work already sitting somewhere else, so filing something in moves nothing, and deleting the container never deletes what was inside it.

Collections gather your creatives

Every creative lands in the Library the moment its job exists, filed nowhere. A collection is a name, an optional colour and a list of creatives that already exist. One creative can sit in five collections at once and still be in the Library, whole, exactly once.

Make one from the New collection tile at the top of Images in the Library, or from inside the save picker. Give it a name and one of seven colours. Uncoloured is the default and a real answer: the mark stays a thin outline until a colour is worth something to you.

Filing something into one

The bookmark on a creative opens the picker, on a card in the Library and on a card inside a session alike. Tick as many collections as you like and the panel stays open, because one ad belongs in Black Friday and in Evergreen at the same time. The bookmark fills once the creative is in at least one collection, and empties when it leaves the last one.

Select several cards and the bar along the bottom offers Add to collection for the whole lot at once. A collection ticks there only when every creative you selected is already in it.

Opening one

Press the tile. The search field gives way to a back arrow, the collection's name and how many items it holds. Filters and the date window still work inside it, and the back arrow, All images, takes you back out. Collections belong to the workspace rather than to you, so everyone on the team sees the same shelf.

Folders gather other brands' ads

Radar's Swipe file carries the same shelf under a different word: folders, with the same tiles, colours and picker. A folder's ⋯ menu also holds Pin to sidebar, which lists it under Pinned in Radar's sidebar, in this browser.

One rule differs. A folder is a subset of what you have saved, so unsaving an ad drops it out of every folder it was in. Saving is what keeps an ad; a folder is only the tidying on top.