Organizing
A hundred games get browsed; a thousand get organized. The library sidebar offers four organizing tools, from the most manual to the most automatic.
Folders and tags
Folders file things by hand — “March tournament”, “Annotated games”. A game moves into a folder by drag and drop or through the context menu.
Tags, colored, mark across the board: the same game can carry “review later” and “miniature”. You create and color them on the fly from a game’s context menu. To assign one, two gestures: the context menu, or drag the games onto the tag in the sidebar — a whole selection at once, with a confirmation at the bottom of the window. Clicking a tag in the sidebar then filters the table to the games that carry it.
The Tags column of the table is the visual cue: each game shows the colored dots of its tags — beyond three, a “+N” sums up the rest, and the detail appears on hover.
Smart folders
A smart folder is a saved search: it fills itself, continuously, according to its criteria — opening (ECO codes), period, result, time control, opponent, required tags, analyzed games only, color played… A few telling examples:
| Smart folder | Criteria |
|---|---|
| ”My Sicilian losses” | ECO B20–B99 · result: loss · color: White |
| ”This month’s blitz” | time control: blitz · period: last 30 days |
| ”To show the coach” | tag: coach · analyzed only |
Every newly imported game that matches the criteria appears there without a single gesture.
Creating one from your filters
The most direct way starts from what’s already in front of you. Filter the library by hand — pick a month, restrict time controls or results, click one or more tags, type in the search — then click Save this view in the toolbar. The button becomes active as soon as a filter is set.
The editor then opens pre-filled: a name suggested from your filters, and the criteria already carried over. You refine them, and above all you can add what the toolbar doesn’t expose — ECO codes, opponent, color played, analyzed games only. The principle fits in one sentence: what you see is what you save.
Once created, the folder appears in the sidebar. Recalling it with a click restores the filters it represents: the loop is complete — filter, save, recall.
Search, sorting and quick filters
The search bar filters live by player or opening. Sorting adjusts in the sidebar (recently added, game date, player), and the quick filters isolate in one click analyzed games, unanalyzed ones, or games played against Stockfish.