Your library

Explore is how you find things; your library is how you keep them. Four tabs, and a colour system that is more useful than it first looks.

#Overview

Library opens on a graph of your reading over the year, then Continue reading — the things you opened and did not finish, so you can pick up whatever you last had open.

If you belong to any sites, they appear here as cards. Sites have no tab of their own, because a membership list is a short flat thing that would leave a whole tab nearly empty.

#Bookmarks, and what the colours are for

Bookmark in the sidebar of any internote or map saves it and offers a colour. There are eight: yellow, red, blue, purple, pink, teal, green and orange.

The colours are not decoration — they are your filing system. The Bookmarked tab groups everything you have saved by colour, largest group first, with a Rename control on each. Rename a colour and it becomes a category of your own: “Revision”, “For the essay”, “Second year”. Names can be up to 24 characters, which is enough for a course name and not enough for a sentence.

A rename lands everywhere at once — the pickers inside internotes and maps use your name for the colour, not the colour’s own.

#The other tabs

Shared with me
Anything someone has invited your account to by email, whether you have view or edit access. Both internotes and maps land here.
Completed
Your record of what you have finished. Mark as Completed — from the bookmark menu, or the button at the end of an internote — puts something here, and it also feeds your progress through any map that internote belongs to. You can mark something incomplete again at any point.

#Rating

Rate records Helpful or Not helpful on what you are reading. Helpful ratings feed the Most Liked sort in Explore, so rating is how you make good work easier for the next person to find.

Authors are told. Bookmarking, rating or finishing someone’s work notifies them, and names you — “Ada bookmarked Survival Analysis”. Several people at once are grouped into one notification rather than fifty. Which colour you filed it under is yours alone and is never shown to anyone. Your own notifications are controlled under Notifications.

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