How your library is organised
Everything you generate is filed automatically. There are two ways to look at the same set of images:
- Projects — thumbnails grouped by project, and within a project by the template name you set when generating. This is the structured view.
- Downloads — every thumbnail you have ever generated, newest first, in one flat grid. This is the "where is that thing I made last Tuesday" view.
Nothing needs filing by hand. The template name you type on the dashboard is what does the organising, which is why it is worth typing a real one.
The template name is your filing system
"test", "test 2" and "final final" are how a library becomes unusable at fifty thumbnails. Name it for the video or the series — "Cabin build — ep 4", "Podcast S2", "Shorts — money tips" — and Projects organises itself.
Filtering
The Projects screen accepts filters in the URL, so a filtered view is a link you can bookmark or share with a collaborator:
- By project — narrows to a single project's thumbnails.
- By template name — narrows to one series or one video's set.
Active filters show as chips at the top of the screen with a Clear control. Bookmarking the filtered URL for a series you are actively working on saves a lot of scrolling.
A naming convention that survives scale
Whatever you choose, choose it before video ten rather than after video fifty. A pattern that works:
| Pattern | Example | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Series — episode | Cabin build — ep 4 | Sorts together, reads clearly |
| Format — topic | Versus — Canon vs Sony | Groups by thumbnail format, which is how you reuse layouts |
| Date — topic | 2026-03 — tax changes | For news and timely content |
| Brand — series | ACME — how-to 12 | Essential when running several channels |
Pick one and be boring about it. A consistent mediocre convention beats an inconsistent clever one.
Two variations per generation
Every generation produces two images and both are filed. That is deliberate — it gives you a choice, and it means an A/B test is available without a second request. Keep both until you have picked a winner; there is no cost to leaving them there.
Your library is a reference library
The most useful thing in Projects is not the record of what you made — it is the raw material for what you make next:
- Find the thumbnail from your best-performing video.
- Download it and set it as a reference template for the next generation.
- Or open it directly in the editor and swap the face and replace the text to reissue it for a new video.
That second route — edit a proven frame rather than generate a new one — is the single highest-leverage habit in the product. It costs two requests instead of one generation, and it produces a channel that looks art-directed instead of assembled.
Housekeeping
Once a quarter, go through Projects and identify the three layouts that actually performed. Those are your templates. Everything else is history. Write the three down in your brand kit so you are choosing between three known-good structures per video rather than starting from nothing — which is the practical content of collection management.