Your shelves¶

🧱 Layout¶

Layout shows all your cabinets with their shelves and what stands on them. Neighbouring albums of one artist form a block; the number on a block is how many albums it holds — click it to split the block into single albums. A bar on each shelf shows how full it is.

When your cabinets are spread over rooms, each room gets a tab. Go to cabinet… at the top stays in view while you scroll and jumps to any cabinet, or to the albums not on a shelf.

✋ Moving albums¶

Drag a block to another spot on the same shelf, or to another shelf. Every move is saved at once, and a version of the layout from before you started is kept.

On a phone, hold a block for a moment until it lifts, then drag it. A quick swipe that starts on a block scrolls the page instead, so you don't move albums by accident.

For a shelf far away, use the ⋮ on a block (or right-click it) and pick the shelf from the list: the block goes to the end of that shelf, and the page jumps there so you can drag it to its exact spot.

🗄️ Cabinets and shelves¶

Cabinets describes your storage: each cabinet with its room and its shelves, in the order you walk them — the order Browse follows and a proposal fills. The arrows change that order. A shelf has a name, a width, and optionally a type (top- or front-loader), a row (top or bottom), and a reachability score.

A cabinet can be kept outside the sorting — for records set aside, storage elsewhere, or a case you are still going to buy. What stands there stays, and a proposal adds nothing to it.

A shelf can only be removed once it is empty, and a cabinet once it has no shelves, so nothing ever loses its place by tidying up.

📏 Measured or estimated widths¶

How many records fit on a shelf depends on its width. Widths taken from a workbook are estimates, shown as ≈ — they tend to come out too narrow. Once you have measured a shelf, enter its width and tick I measured this width.

Only a measured shelf that is too full is marked in red and counted as waiting on the Dashboard. A shelf over its estimated width is shown in grey: it mostly says the shelf needs measuring.

Album widths are estimated from their format (see Settings). Box sets and bundles vary too much for that; measure them under Cabinets → Album widths.

🪟 Showcase¶

A showcase is a top-loader that holds a sample of the artists you have most of, facing front. Mark a top-loader as a showcase under Cabinets; the albums standing on it become its sample. The Showcase screen shows, per artist, how many of their albums are on display, and lets you exchange one for another: each album takes the other's spot, so the top-loader and the shelf hold as many albums as before.

A proposal leaves a showcase exactly as it is.

⏪ Versions¶

Every layout you had can be brought back. A version is saved when you load a workbook, when you accept a proposal, before you move albums by hand (at most once an hour), and whenever you choose to. Put back restores where your albums stood — nothing else — after saving the layout you have now, so you can always return.