Organising your library

How a library is shaped

Library

The tab where every collection you have shows up, alongside any podcasts you subscribe to.

Collection

A named group of recordings with its own cover. Whatever you add — an upload, a pasted link, a podcast episode — belongs to exactly one collection.

Section

An optional folder inside a collection, for splitting a large collection further. A recording sits in one section, or in none.

Making and using collections

A collection is the first thing E-clair asks about, before it even asks what to call the recording. Tap Add on the Library tab, or Add audio / Paste link inside a collection you already have open, and a sheet asks which collection this goes into — only after you answer that does it ask for a title.

• — Pick any collection already in the list, or tap New collection… and type a name to create one on the spot, without leaving the sheet.
• — A new collection starts with a plain patterned cover. Open it and tap the camera icon in the corner to replace that with a photo of your own.
• — Rename a collection any time with the pencil icon next to its title, on the collection’s own screen.

Splitting a collection up

Open a collection and, once it has more than a couple of recordings, sections keep it from turning into one long scroll.

• — Tap New section inside a collection and give it a name to create one.
• — Swipe a recording and tap Move to send it into a section, or to pull it back out with Remove from section.
• — Rename or delete a section with the pencil and trash icons beside it. Deleting a section only removes the section — its recordings stay in the collection, just no longer grouped.
• — Tap a section’s header to collapse or expand it, or use Collapse all / Expand all to do every section at once. E-clair remembers which sections you left collapsed the next time you open the collection.

Ordering a long list

Once a collection has more than one recording, a sort control appears next to its count. It offers four orders, and remembers your choice for that collection the next time you open it:

Newest first

The default — the most recently added recording at the top.

Oldest first

The same list, reversed.

Name A→Z

Alphabetical by title.

Name Z→A

Reverse alphabetical.

What a row tells you

A recording’s row tells you where it stands without opening it: its type, and while it is still coming in, a live upload or transcribing percentage. Once it is done, the row shows its duration and date instead — and if you have started listening, a thin bar underneath fills in to show how far through you got.

• — A recording gets its title, and an optional note in the description field, once — when you add it in the Name sheet. There is no separate rename step afterwards, so it is worth taking a moment to give it a name you will recognise later.
• — That note shows in small type under the title back on the collection screen, wherever there is room for it.
• — While a recording is open and playing, its details view shows the collection it belongs to, its cover image, and an AI-generated summary if one has been produced — with a shortcut to change its cover from there too.