Filtering and browsing your Library

As your Library grows, you'll want to look at one slice of it at a time. The filter row sits right under the Library search bar and gives you the menus to do that.

The filter menus

Under the search bar, Filter comes first. A divider separates it from Recents, Reading list, and your named saved views. Open Filter for:

• Type: what an item is — documents, cards, highlights, PDFs, images, videos, audio, links, social posts. AI-generated notes sit at the bottom of this menu.
• Source: where an item came from — YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, Substack, plus your Highlights apps (Readwise, Kindle, Snipd) and your Feeds (RSS).
• Date: when the original post or imported item was published. If Eden does not have an original publish date, it uses the date you added the item to your Library.
• Topic: the subjects Eden found across your saves, like "Writing" or "AI Tools". This menu only appears once your Library has enough for Eden to spot topics.
• Tags: your workspace's own tags. This menu appears once your workspace has tags.
• Archived: items you have tidied away without deleting.

The Type, Source, Topic, and Tags menus only list what your Library actually holds, and every row shows how many items are behind it. Tick as many rows as you like: the menu stays open so you can pick several in one go.

On a pointer device, hover over Type, Source, Topic, Tags, or Sort to open its choices in a flyout to the right. You can still click a row to open the same choices in the main menu, which works better with a keyboard or on a touch screen.

With one active filter, the Filter button shows its name. With several, it shows a compact count. Open the menu and choose Clear inside one group, or Clear all to reset every ad-hoc filter.

Recents shows items reordered by when you last edited them, so a note you just worked on jumps to the top even if you created it months ago. Reading list is also one click away when your list has items. Recents, Reading list, and saved views are single-select shortcuts: choosing one turns the previous shortcut off, and clicking the active shortcut again returns you to the unfiltered Library.

The Reading list holds two kinds of items: everything you flagged Read later, plus anything you started reading but haven't finished. Items leave the list on their own once you read to the end — including flagged ones — and you can clear any item instantly with Mark as read: hover over a row in the Home Reading section, or right-click the item and choose Remove from reading list.

Save a view

Once you apply at least one filter, Save view appears to the right of your view shortcuts. Click it, give the filter combination a name, choose an icon, and save it. The new view joins Recents and Reading list in the row, and clicking it restores its filters, date range, sort order, and whether you saved it in Grid, List, or Sources.

Switching between Grid, List, and Sources by itself does not show Save view. If another filter is active, the current layout is included when you save.

Saved Library views are personal and workspace-specific. They follow your account across devices without changing what teammates see. Right-click a saved view to change its name or icon, or to Delete it.

Picks are a union, not a narrowing filter

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

Type and Source picks combine with OR, not AND. Each one you add shows more items, never fewer.

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

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

Date, Topic, Tags, Reading list, and AI generated work the other way: they narrow whatever the Type and Source picks returned. So PDFs plus the Writing topic gives you PDFs about writing.

Filter by date

Open Filter → Date to choose Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, or This month. For an exact date or date range, fill in From and To, then click Apply. Entering only one date shows that single calendar day.

The range includes both the first and last day. It also stays in the page address, so a Library link you bookmark or share opens with the same dates selected. Open Filter → Date to clear only the date range, or use Clear all in the Filter menu.

Archive: clear without deleting

Archive is how you tidy the grid without deleting anything. Right-click an item (or select several) and choose Archive. Archived items leave the grid, the menus, and every count, but nothing is lost — they keep their boards, connections, and content. If you archive something by mistake, hit Undo on the toast, or open Filter → Archived later and choose Unarchive.

If you want a true narrowing search where terms must all match, use searching your Library instead. The menus 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.

Grid, List, and Sources

The icon switcher at the right of the filter row has three modes. Grid is the visual mosaic. List is a compact row-per-item view built for the keyboard: press ↑/↓ (or J/K) to move, Enter to open, B to add to a board, E to archive. Archiving jumps focus to the next row, so List is the fastest way to sweep a backlog. Sources groups items by where they came from.

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 Filter → Sort to choose newest or oldest added, recently edited, or least recently edited. Combined with the other filters, you can quickly get to, say, your recent PDFs and images and skim them as a visual wall.

Choose a sort order

The Sort menu keeps date and direction in one place: Newest added, Oldest added, Recently edited, or Least recently edited. It's not another filter, so it never changes which items are in the result.

This is useful after clicking into a single source. A book, a podcast, or a creator you've been saving from for months reads in the order you saved it, oldest at the top, instead of ending with the first thing you ever kept. Recents remains the fast shortcut for recently edited.

The choice sticks in the page address, so a Library link you bookmark or share opens in the same order.

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.