Filtering and browsing your Library

As your Library grows, you'll want to look at one slice of it at a time. The filter rail runs along the Library and gives you chips to do that.

The filter chips

The chips let you narrow by:

• Kind: links, PDFs, images, notes, social posts, highlights.
• Source: where an item came from, like the Chrome extension, email-in, or Discover.
• Provider: the platform behind a social item, like X, YouTube, or Instagram.

Click a chip to turn it on. Click it again to turn it off. Select nothing and you see everything.

Chips are a union, not a narrowing filter

This is the part that surprises people, so it's worth stating plainly.

The chips combine with OR, not AND. Each chip you add shows more items, never fewer.

• Select Links and you see every link.
• Add PDFs and now you see every link and every PDF.
• Add X posts on top and you see links, PDFs, and X posts together.

So combining chips widens the view. It never collapses to a smaller set.

If you want a true narrowing search where terms must all match, use searching your Library instead. Chips are for widening the view to a few kinds at once; search is for pinpointing one thing.

Group by source

A Sources view groups your items by where they came from, so you can see everything that arrived from the Chrome extension in one place, everything forwarded by email in another, and so on. It's the fastest way to answer "where did I save all this from" and to work through a single inflow at a time.

Browse and sort the grid

The Library lays items out in a mosaic grid you can scroll. By default it shows your most recent saves first, so the things you just added are right at the top.

Use the sort controls to reorder the grid when most-recent isn't what you want, then scroll the grid to browse. Combined with the filter chips, you can quickly get to, say, your recent PDFs and images and skim them as a visual wall.

Where to go next

• For how items get into the Library in the first place, read the Library.
• To pinpoint one item by keyword or meaning, read searching your Library.
• To add new items yourself, read creating items directly in the Library.