How do I organize my projects into folders?

Folders group your projects in Library › Projects, the way folders group files on a computer. A folder can hold projects and other folders, at any depth. No work happens inside a folder itself: it only files projects. A project is in one folder at most, or at the top level of the library (Projects).

Create a folder

Click New folder, beside New project at the top of the library, give it a name and click Create. The folder is created where you are: at the top level, or inside the folder you have open. Two folders at the same place cannot share a name.

A project you create while a folder is open is filed in that folder.

Browse

Click a folder to open it. The open level shows a Folders section, with how many folders it holds, then a Projects section. Each folder card shows its name, how many projects it holds (subfolders included) and the covers of its most recent projects. The path of the open folder sits at the top of the page; click any folder in it to go back up, or use Back.

Once you are inside a project, the top bar shows the folders the project is filed in, before its name: click one to open the library on that folder.

The View switch at the top of the library offers Folders (browse level by level) and All projects (every project of every folder in one list, each card showing the folder it is filed in). Searching by name always looks through the whole library, all folders included.

Move projects and folders

Drag and drop: drag a project or a folder card onto a folder to move it there. Hold it over a folder for a moment and the folder opens, so you can go deeper. Drop it on the path at the top of the page to move it up. Dragging a selected card moves the whole selection.
Move to…: in a folder’s ⋯ menu, in the right-click menu, or in the selection bar. It opens a folder browser with a search field and your recent folders; you can also create a folder there and move into it in one step.

After a move, a message confirms it, with Undo to put everything back where it was. A folder cannot go inside one of its own subfolders, and nothing can be moved into an archived folder.

On a computer, a right click offers the actions of what is under the pointer:

on the page: New project and New folder;
on a project: Open, Download, Move to…, Archive and Delete;
on a folder: Rename, Download, Move to…, Archive and Delete, the same actions as its ⋯ menu.

When you right-click a card that is part of a selection of several items, the actions apply to the whole selection.

Select folders

Tick a folder card’s checkbox to select it, alongside projects if you like. While something is selected, a click on a card selects it rather than opening it. The selection bar then offers Move to…, Download, Archive and Delete for the whole selection. Add to tag only applies to projects, so it is hidden while a folder is selected.

Download a folder

Download on a folder (or on a selection) prepares one zip with the results of every project inside it, subfolders included. How the zip is organized follows your naming template: the Default template files each project under its folders, so the zip reproduces your library. The window says how many results the zip will hold, up to 1,000 per download — see How to export your results and How to set up your export preferences.

Archive a folder

Archive hides the folder, everything inside it, from your default view. Show archived items with Show archived in the library filters. Unarchive brings the folder back with all its contents, including projects you had archived on their own before, and the folders above it if they were archived too.

Delete a folder

Deleting a folder never deletes a project. If the folder holds projects, you choose what happens to them:

Move its contents up to “…” (named after the level above): its projects and subfolders move to the level above. A subfolder whose name is already taken there gets “ (2)” added.
Archive all its projects: every project inside it is archived and moved to the level above; its subfolders are deleted with it.

When a selection holds both projects and folders, one dialog confirms the whole deletion: the selected projects are deleted for good, and you choose what happens to the folders’ contents.

Errors

A folder with this name already exists here. — pick another name, or move it elsewhere.
A folder cannot go inside one of its own folders. — the destination is inside the folder you are moving.