Organize shares with folders, tags and collections

Folders and tags keep a long list of shares easy to scan, and a collection bundles several of your files into one page behind one link. Folders and tags stay on your computer: they are never uploaded and never appear on a published page.

Put shares in folders#

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   In Shares, click New folder on the search row to make a folder.

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   To file a share, drag it onto a folder (drag it onto Unfiled to take it out of every folder), or use Move to… from the share's right-click menu or the button in its detail pane (the way to do it on a phone).

Each folder's … menu offers New subfolder, Rename, Move to… and Delete. Folders go up to 3 levels deep. Yardmaster remembers which folders you left open.

Deleting a folder never deletes a share: everything inside moves up one level, and Undo in the toast puts back whatever is still where the delete left it.

Tag shares#

Tags are short colored labels. Add them in the Tags field of a share's detail pane (type a new name and press Enter to create one).

Filter the list with the tag filter button (it shows shares with any of the tags you pick), and rename, recolor or delete them in the Shares Settings view.

Send several files as one link#

A normal share is one file behind one URL. If you wanted to send somebody a summary, a chart and an appendix, that was three links and a note explaining the order. A collection is a share made of several of your own sources, composed into one page with a contents sidebar down the side. One link, one expiry, one view count, one thing to revoke.

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   Press the New collection button (the stacked-layers icon) in the Shares sidebar header. You get an empty draft, already selected so you can rename it in the form at the top.

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   Fill it from the Sources card: Add file appends a file to the end of the list, and the file's name becomes that section's heading on the published page, so rename the file if the name isn't what you want people to read.

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   The arrows on each row set the order, and the order of the list is the order of the page.

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   Press Publish.

Update a collection#

Your files aren't copied: they're read fresh each time you publish. Edit a source and press Update, and the new text goes out. The flip side: if you move or delete a source file, the next publish stops and tells you which one it couldn't find. The rest of the collection is untouched: fix or remove that one source and publish again.

After the first publish the button says Update, and an update re-uses the same link, so anything you've already sent out keeps working. It lands in the share's History card like any other version, which means you can compare versions and roll one back.