Collections

Collections are lightweight folders for grouping related references. Membership is explicit: adding an item to a collection links it there, so one item can live in several collections without being duplicated, and retagging an item later never changes which collections it belongs to.

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Browsing collections

Search and the Collections view stay available even when your inspiration library is empty. You can create an empty collection first and add references later. In Collections, the newest created collections appear first. The grid uses the same landscape cards as Studio projects and adds columns on wider screens. Use the List / Grid switch at the top right to choose between previews and compact rows with inspiration counts and creation dates. Memo remembers this choice in your browser. Search filters collection names in either layout. Select anywhere on a card to open its collection. The inspiration count sits directly beneath the title.

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Creating a collection

Create a collection from your library (Collections view → New collection). Give it a name, then pick what goes in: saved inspirations from the All tab, or Studio generations from the Generated tab of the same picker. The button in the picker’s corner tells you what you’re about to change (Add 3, Remove 1, or Save changes); it reads Done when nothing is pending. If the picker cannot load inspirations, collection membership or generations, it shows Try again. Your selections stay in the dialog after a failed save. You can retry without selecting everything again. Choose Add to collection on an inspiration, generated result, or asset card to open the same picker:

1. The picker opens on General collections. Check the collections you want; a collection the item is already in is checked.
2. To file it in a kit instead, choose Kits, pick a kit, then check its collections. The arrow beside the kit’s name takes you back to the list of kits. A kit that already holds the item shows a small check.
3. Switch between the two to file the same item in more than one place.
4. Choose Done when finished.

Each check is saved as you make it. You can keep checking, switch lists or close the picker without waiting for a save to finish. New collection creates a collection in the list you are viewing and adds the item to it. If a save fails, the check returns to its previous state and a message explains the error. Uncheck a collection to remove that membership without deleting the item. The lists appear at once because Memo already has them. The item’s checks are read when you open its menu, so they are usually there when the picker opens; on a slow connection the boxes pulse for a moment and cannot be changed until the checks arrive. The pages behind the picker update when you close it.

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Taste profile and keywords

Open a collection and the header above the grid tells you, and your AI, what the references have in common:

• Taste profile — a short paragraph describing the aesthetic that ties the references together: medium, mood, palette and lighting, subjects, era or influences. Memo writes it the first time you open a collection that has references, from the titles, descriptions and tags it already produced for each one. No credits are charged.
• Keywords — five to eight prompt-ready phrases distilled from the same references. Use the copy icon next to the heading to paste them straight into a prompt.

The profile remembers how many references it was written from. Add or remove references and the header notes that the collection has changed; use the refresh icon next to Taste profile to write it again. A collection with no references shows an Analyze collection prompt once you add some. Viewers see the header but cannot refresh it. Your connected agent gets the same header: get_collection returns the taste profile and its keywords, and flags a stale profile. Ask it “what’s the vibe of the Futurist Glam collection?” and it answers from the profile; ask it to generate from the collection and the profile is its brief. The agent can also write or refresh the profile itself with update_collection, after reading the references, so a collection filled by your agent is described by your agent.

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Adding and removing items

• Add to collection — from the card’s menu; the picker offers General collections and Kits
• Quick add to collection — from an inspiration card’s menu; choose an existing collection directly with the pointer or keyboard
• Add inspirations — inside a collection, the picker at the top right adds saved inspirations or generated results
• Remove from collection — same menu when browsing within a collection

Your connected agent can also file in bulk by tag (add_to_collection with tags): every inspiration carrying any of the chosen tags is added once, as a snapshot rather than a live rule. Adding an item to a collection doesn’t move it out of your main library. Removing it doesn’t delete it — it just unlinks.

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Filing generations

Anything you generate can become a curated reference, from wherever you are looking at it:

• Studio → a project’s assets — hover a card and choose Add to collection, or open the card and use the action bar
• Workflows → Runs — the same action on every run output
• Image and Video tools — hover a result tile

The picker is the one inspiration cards use, and it already knows which collections the generation is in. Under the hood Memo copies the media into your library, so the reference keeps working even if the project it was made in is deleted later. Each generation maps to one library item: adding it to a second collection files that same item, never a duplicate. Filed generations live inside collections only, so the main Inspirations feed stays what you captured from the web. Your connected agent has the same door: add_inspirations with a generation_id and a collection_id.

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When to use collections

Use collections to group references for a purpose:

• “Q3 campaign moodboard”
• “Brand refresh 2026”
• “Client X — winter shoot”
• Style exploration — group by aesthetic direction to compare approaches

A collection groups references; a Studio project holds the working canvas, its conversations and its own assets page with the folders you create. Project folders sort what was made in one project; collections gather references across projects. Neither determines brand inheritance. General and Brand Kit collections have separate homes, but share the same picker. An item can belong to both. For assets that belong to a brand, choose Add to collection on a result or a character, then choose Kits and pick the kit. Kit collections support product and style images, characters, graphic elements, photography, and videos. A kit’s Unfiled view keeps assets accessible after their last kit collection membership is removed. See Filing assets into a kit. Your connected agent can read a collection with get_collection, including its captured and generated references. Ask it to use that named collection when preparing a brief; collection membership alone does not attach every item to every scene.

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Sharing a collection

Any general collection can be shared with people outside your workspace by link. Open the collection and choose Share next to Add inspirations. Memo asks once: anyone with the link can see the collection’s inspirations, who added them, and the taste profile and keywords, so share only what you have the right to show. Confirm, and the link is copied to your clipboard. Whoever opens the link sees the collection on a single Memo page, with no account needed: the name, the taste profile and keywords, and every inspiration. Each one opens full size in the same view as your library, with the arrows (or the arrow keys) to move through the collection. The panel is the one you see in your library, without its buttons: who added the inspiration and when, its title and description, and where it came from (the account and the page it was saved from, or Saved in Memo for an upload). The address bar follows the open inspiration, so copying it shares that one. Visitors cannot edit anything, and the page is kept out of search engines. Once shared, the button reads Shared and opens a short menu:

• Copy link — copy the same link again
• Open public page — see the collection as a visitor sees it
• Show comments — off by default; turn it on and each inspiration on the public page gets a Comments tab where visitors can read what your workspace wrote about it. Comments are written in Memo by workspace members (use Invite people to add someone); visitors cannot post
• Stop sharing — the link stops working right away; sharing again creates a new link

Editors and above can share; viewers do not see the button. A watched brand’s page cannot be shared. A visitor who is signed in to Memo sees Open in Memo and Save to Memo instead of the sign-up button. Save to Memo copies the collection into their own workspace as a new collection, with every source link kept; the copies count against their library like any save. To let someone add to your collection rather than view it, invite them to the workspace from Settings → Members.

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Managing collections

From your library you can:

• Browse within any collection to see its contents
• Rename a collection
• Delete a collection (removes the grouping, not the items inside)

Embedded videos such as YouTube references can be filed in General collections only; Brand Kits hold video files, such as your generated videos. Filing an existing asset preserves its original type and name; no extra media upload is needed.