The Lists tab: playlist, reading list, and bookmarks

What the Lists tab is

Everything you save while scrolling the Feed, a video worth watching later, an article worth reading properly, or a card worth keeping for reference, lands in one of three lists: Playlist (video and podcast content), Reading List (articles), and Saved (a bookmark on anything, from any card). The Lists tab is where all three come together in one table, so you can find what you queued up, work through it, and clear it out, without hunting back through the Feed to find the card you tapped days ago.

Nothing here is created for you. A list only fills when you take the action yourself, saving, adding to playlist, or adding to reading list, on a card in the Feed. The Lists tab is the read-and-manage side of that, not a source of new content on its own.

Where to find it

Open Vault from the sidebar, under the My Data section, at /data. Vault opens as four horizontally scrollable cards: Uploads, Tracking, Lists, and Notifications. Lists is the third card.

There are three ways to land inside it:

• Click the Lists card directly from Vault to see everything, across all three lists, in one table.
• On the Vault home screen, the Explore row has three dedicated tiles, Playlist, Reading, and Saved, each showing its own count. Clicking one opens the Lists tab already filtered to that list. See The Vault: your Documents section for what each tile's count and subtitle mean.
• A small list icon sits in the top navigation, near the sidebar. It carries a teal badge with your combined unread count across Playlist and Reading List (capped at "9+"). Clicking it opens a compact My Lists menu: Playlist (with an unlistened count and a dot if anything's unread), Reading List (with an unread count), and Saved below a divider. Clicking any of the three jumps straight into the Lists tab filtered to that list.

How items get into a list

Lists only fill from cards in the Feed. Every Feed card carries a Save button (a bookmark icon). Clicking it adds the card to Saved; clicking it again removes it. A brief toast confirms each action: "Saved" or "Removed from saved."

Two more buttons appear conditionally, based on what kind of card it is:

• Video and podcast cards carry a Playlist button. Clicking it adds the item to your Playlist; the toast reads "Added to playlist" or "Removed from playlist."
• Article cards carry a Read list button. Clicking it adds the item to your Reading List; the toast reads "Added to reading list" or "Removed from reading list."

A card can sit in more than one list at once, saving a video both bookmarks it and, separately, adds it to the Playlist if you click both buttons. Internal Feed items, decisions and signals surfaced from your own data, only ever get the Save button; they never carry a public share link, so they can't be added to Playlist or Reading List, which are meant for external video, podcast, and article content.

The filter bar

Above the table sits a search field and two dropdown filters.

• Search reads "Search by title or source…" and matches against the item's title or its source name as you type.
• List filter narrows to one list at a time: All lists (N), Playlist (N), Reading (N), or Saved (N), each option's count reflecting exactly what's in that list right now. This is the same filter the Explore tiles and the My Lists menu deep-link into.
• Read filter narrows by read state: All, Unread, or Read.

Both filters and the search box combine, narrow by list, then by read state, then type a name, and all three apply together.

Reading the table

Each row is one saved item, combined from whichever list (or lists) it belongs to. The columns, left to right:

Thumb. A small 56×40 image, either the item's own thumbnail or, for YouTube links, a frame pulled from the video. If there's no image to show, a plain initial badge (the first letter of the title) fills the spot instead.

Title. The item's title. If Verinode has a source link for it, the title is a clickable link that opens the original video, podcast, or article in a new tab. If there's no link, it's plain text, still there so you know what you saved, just nothing to click through to. Underneath, in smaller muted text, the source name appears when known (the publisher, channel, or site the item came from).

List. A small copper pill naming which list this specific row belongs to: Playlist, Reading, or Saved. This matters most when you're viewing All lists together, it's the only column telling you which queue a given row sits in. Note this reflects one save action per row: if you saved the same item to two lists (bookmarked a video you also added to Playlist), you'll see two separate rows for it, one tagged Playlist and one tagged Saved.

Type. A humanized media-type badge, for example Video, Podcast, or Article. If the underlying item has no media type recorded, the badge reads Saved.

Added. How long ago you saved the item: "just now," then in minutes, hours, or days ("14m ago," "3h ago," "2d ago"), and beyond a week, a plain date (e.g. "Jun 14").

Actions. Up to three icons on the right, shown only when relevant:

• A check icon, shown only on unread rows. Clicking it marks the item read: the row dims to indicate you've dealt with it, and it drops out of an Unread filter view.
• An external-link icon, shown only when the item has a source URL. Clicking it opens the original video, podcast, or article in a new tab, same destination as clicking the title.
• A trash icon, always present. Clicking it removes the row from whichever list it belongs to.

Read rows render at reduced opacity in the table, so anything you've already worked through visually recedes and anything still unread stands out.

Marking items read and removing them

1. 1Click the check icon on a row to mark it read. The change applies immediately in the table (no page reload), then saves in the background.
2. 2Click the trash icon to remove a row from its list entirely. Like marking read, this applies immediately and saves in the background.
3. 3Use the Read filter to review everything you've already cleared, or the Unread filter to focus on what's still outstanding.

Removing a row only takes it out of that list, it does not touch the original video, article, or Feed card itself. If you change your mind, you can save it again from the Feed.

Empty states

If you have nothing saved in any list, and no search or filter is narrowing the view, the table is replaced with: "Lists fill as you save items from the feed," followed by three concrete hints:

• "Watch a video → it lands in your Playlist"
• "Save an article → it lands in your Reading List"
• "Bookmark anything → it lands in Saved"

If you do have saved items but your current search or filter combination matches none of them, the message instead reads "No items match these filters," with the hint "Try clearing the search or switching the list filter."

Best-practice example

Say you're catching up after a busy week. Open Vault → Lists, set the list filter to Reading and the read filter to Unread, and you've got exactly the articles you queued but haven't gotten to, oldest first if you sort by scanning the Added column. Read one, click the check icon to mark it done, and it dims out of view. Once you're through, switch the list filter to Playlist and do the same for anything you queued to listen to on your commute. The Lists tab doesn't generate anything on its own, it's just where the things you already decided were worth keeping wait for you.

Data sources

Related reading

• The Vault: your Documents section
• The Uploads tab: your document table
• The Feed
• Forwarding documents