Browse and organize collections

Silo is in active development before 1.0. These guides are updated frequently.

A collection groups titles together. In the web, mobile, or TV app, open Collections, select a collection, then select a title to open it. Select Shuffle on a collection’s page to play random titles from it until you stop.

In the web app, Collections has three parts:

• Your collections: the ones your profile made. Only you can change them.
• Shared with me: collections that other profiles on your account made and shared. You can watch them and add them to your Home, but not change them.
• Server collections: collections the person who runs your server made for each library.

A collection only shows the titles your profile can access, and the count on its card includes only those titles. A server collection whose titles are all hidden from your profile isn’t listed for you. Sharing a collection with you doesn’t give you access to a restricted library.

Make a collection in the web app

1. Open Collections and select New collection.
2. Choose what decides what’s in it: Manual to pick the titles yourself, Smart to fill it from rules, or Synced list to follow a list from MDBList or TMDB.
3. Enter a Name, then fill it in as described below.
4. Select Create collection.

The collection then opens in its editor. Select Save after changing it. Titles you add to, remove from, or drag in a manual collection save right away.

Pick the titles

For a manual collection, search under Titles with Add a title and select Add. Drag a title’s handle to change the order, or select its remove control to take it out. The title stays in your library.

Fill it from rules

For a smart collection, choose under Rules which kind of titles it shows and from which libraries. Select Add rule, then pick a field, a condition, and a value from your libraries. Live preview shows the titles that match as you go. Under Order, choose how it’s sorted and, if you want a cap, Max titles. When it shows episodes, Title becomes Episode title, and Show title matches each episode’s show.

A smart collection keeps itself up to date: titles added to your libraries later join it when they match. You can create it even if nothing matches yet.

Follow a list

For a synced list, choose under The list it follows where the list comes from:

• MDBList: pick from Popular picks, search MDBList, or paste any MDBList link. Search only works if the person who runs your server has set it up.
• TMDB chart: a chart such as Trending or Top rated, for movies, TV shows, or both.
• TMDB list: paste the link to a public TMDB list.

Sync sets how often the collection updates. It syncs for the first time when you create it, and it shows only titles that are already in your libraries, so a list of 100 trending movies may show far fewer. To update it before its next sync, open its action menu on Collections and select Sync now.

Hide watched titles

For a manual collection or a synced list, Show only hides titles while you browse, for example the ones you’ve watched. Nothing is removed from the collection.

Share a collection with your other profiles

Under Where it shows, turn on Show to other profiles and select Save. Every profile on your account then finds the collection under Shared with me and can watch it, but only you can change it. Each profile sees only the titles that both it and you can access, so a child profile may see fewer. Nobody else on the server sees it. The switch and Shared with me appear only when your account has more than one profile.

If you turn sharing off, the other profiles lose the collection, including any Home rows they made from it.

Show on the Collections tab also lists the collection on your libraries’ Collections tabs, for you and anyone you share it with.

Add a title to a collection

On a title’s page, open More actions and select Add to Collection. Tick a collection to add the title; ticking saves right away. Only your own manual collections are listed. To start a new one, enter a name under New manual collection and select Create and add.

Show a collection on your Home

On Collections, open a collection’s action menu and select Add to my Home…. In the editor, use Add as a row under Where it shows to put it on your Home or a library page. Either way, Settings > Home Screen opens with the row ready to add. For a collection someone shared with you, open it and select Add to my Home.

Order or delete your collections

Drag a poster under Your collections to change the order. To delete a collection, open its action menu and select Delete…. It’s removed for you and every profile you shared it with.

Collections in the mobile apps

The iPhone, iPad, and Android apps can open collections but can’t create them. Make and fill your collections in the web app.

For a simple reminder, Watchlist or Favorites is quicker than a collection.