Collections

A collection is a named, ordered set of images: a comic told in loose pages, a photoset, an artist’s series. It is a lighter grouping than a relation - no original, no direction, just membership and an order. An image can belong to several collections at once, with its own position in each.

On the detail page, images from the same collection render in their own “Same collection” strip below the related-images panel, so you can read through a set in order.

Filing images

On the detail page, the Collections metadata row lists the image’s memberships as chips, each with its position. Use + add to file the image into a collection (the name autocompletes against existing ones; a new name creates the collection), edit to rename the membership or change its position, and x to remove it.

To file many images at once, use Set collection in the gallery’s Actions chooser (whole current search) or the batch bar (selection). The dialog’s Add/Remove radio either files every targeted image under the label or removes the label from them.

The Collections page

The Collections page lists every collection with its member count. From there you can:

• Rename a collection across all its members.
• Reorder members.
• Dissolve a collection: the images stay, the grouping goes.
• Toggle find relations per collection. By default the near-duplicate pair finder skips pairs that share a collection (the collection already relates them); the switch opts a collection back in. See Relations.

Searching and sorting

collection:"name" finds a collection’s members, collection: images in no collection, collection:any images in at least one. The Collection order sort groups results by collection and reads each one in its own order; when the search pins a single collection:, results follow exactly that collection’s order. Details in Searching.