Bookmarks & Collections

Collections is your personal library of saved verses and narrations, organised in folders you create, with your own notes on each. Arrange it as you like — by subject, by study, by the questions you are working through — and nest folders as deeply as your system needs.

Everything is kept on your device and works offline, without an account. With Premium, your collections are also backed up and kept in step across your devices.

Open Collections from the Collections card on the Home screen, or from Tools → Collection.

Folders and Items

A collection is built from three kinds of entry:

Each saved item has a title — the reference by default, such as 2:255, or your own — the saved text, optional notes, and the dates it was saved and last changed. Items with notes are marked, so you can see at a glance which ones you have written on.

A folder holds items and other folders, nested as deeply as you like, and can carry notes of its own describing what it is for:

My Collections
├── Islamic Studies
│   ├── Qur'anic Exegesis
│   │   ├── Surah al-Fatiha
│   │   └── Surah al-Baqarah
│   └── Hadith Studies
│       ├── The Six Books
│       └── Other Collections
└── Personal Reflections
    ├── Duas for Anxiety & Stress
    └── Action Items from Friday Khutbah

A folder can be empty — useful as a place held ready for what you will add later.

Saving Something

Tap the bookmark on a verse or a narration, and Save to Collection opens.

1. Select Location — browse into a folder, search for it by name, or create a new one on the spot with New Folder. The path at the top shows where you are.
2. Title — the reference is filled in for you, such as 2:255; keep it or write your own, such as Ayat al-Kursi — protection at night.
3. Notes — optional. Write why you saved it, what it answers, or what to come back to.
4. Confirm.

Saving the same passage more than once

The same passage can be saved as many times as you like — to different folders, or to the same folder with different titles and notes. Ayat al-Kursi can sit in Verses on Protection with one set of notes, and in Memorisation with another. Each copy is independent: changing or removing one leaves the others as they are.

Saving and your History

Saving also adds an entry to your History, with the item's title, leading to the same passage — saving is a moment worth remembering alongside the reading that prompted it. The two remain independent: removing an item from a collection does not remove it from History, and removing an entry from History leaves your collections as they are. Creating a folder is not recorded; only what you save is.

Creating Folders and Notes

Tap New in Collections and choose:

• Folder — give it a name, and it appears in the folder you are in.
• Note — give it a title, and the note opens for writing. It lives in the folder you are in.

In an empty collection, Create a folder and Write a note are offered straight away.

Names are trimmed of spaces at either end, and a name must contain more than spaces.

Moving Around

Back always means up one level; Close is its own button, so leaving from six folders deep is one tap rather than six.

A note opened from a collection can be closed together with the collection, without walking back through the folders you opened it from.

Opening an item

Tap a saved verse or narration to open it in place — the verse in the Quran, the narration in the Hadith Library — with everything the reading screen offers. A narration opens when its collection is in your Hadith Library; if it is not, download the collection and the item opens.

The scroll rail

A long folder carries a rail at its edge. Hold it and a bubble shows where you would land, in the order the folder is sorted by — a letter when sorted by name, a date when sorted by date, the kind of item when sorted by type — with the item's title beneath. Let go and the folder moves there. After a jump, a way back is offered for a few seconds.

A long press on the rail opens its settings, which are shared by every list in the app.

Managing Items and Folders

Long-press an item or a folder, or use Select items, and the actions appear:

Moving, copying or deleting a folder applies to everything inside it.

Working with many at once

Select items lets you work on many entries together:

1. Tap Select items, and tick the entries you want — or Select All.
2. Choose Move, Copy or Delete.
3. For Move and Copy, choose the destination folder.

Up to 300 entries can be selected at a time.

Sorting

Sort orders a folder by:

Each can run ascending or descending.

How far a sort reaches

Before you choose an order, the sort sheet asks how far it should reach:

Each folder remembers how it is sorted, so it opens the way you last left it — not the way the folder you came from is sorted, and not reset when you close the app. A reference folder can stay alphabetical while a reading log stays in date order.

Arranging by hand

Choose Arrange manually in a folder:

1. The whole folder is shown at once, with a grip on each row.
2. Press a grip, drag the row to its place, and release.
3. Tap Done when you have finished.

If the folder was sorted another way, it switches to Default first — Switched to your own order — so the arrangement you make is the one you see.

Your view, on each device

Sort orders and arrangements belong to the device you set them on. What your folders contain is backed up and kept in step with Premium; how you choose to view them can differ between the phone you read on and the tablet you study on.

Searching

The search in Collections looks through item titles, the saved text, your notes, folder names and folder notes. Search from the top of Collections to look everywhere — Search collections… — or from inside a folder to look only there — Search in Islamic Studies…. Each result shows the path to where it lives.

Your collections can also be searched from the main Search, with Collections selected as a source, alongside the Qur'an and the hadith library.

Notes on Items and Folders

Notes on items and folders can be as short as a line or as long as a study, with formatting such as headings, bold and italic text, lists, quotes, tables and links. Use them to:

• Record why you saved something — the question it answers, the talk you heard it in.
• Compare — set two translations side by side in a table.
• Trace — list the narrators of a chain, or the other places a report appears.
• Explain a folder — what belongs in it, and what does not.

For longer writing that weaves verses and narrations into the text itself, write a note — it lives in your folders alongside everything else.

Backup and Sync

Collections are kept on your device and work fully offline, without an account. Nothing in them leaves your phone unless you choose backup and sync.

With Premium, sign in from Profile, and your collections are backed up and kept in step across every device where you sign in:

• Everything is included — saved items, notes, folders and their changes, moves and deletions.
• In the background — changes are kept in step as you make them.
• Offline — changes made without a connection are kept and sent when you are back online.
• Sync Now in Profile syncs immediately, and shows when your collections were last synced.
• Encrypted — your data is sent over an encrypted connection and stored securely.
• A new phone — sign in, and your collections arrive.

See the Privacy Policy for how backup is handled.

Tips

• Name folders for what they hold — Verses on Mercy rather than Folder 1.
• Use folder notes to record why a folder exists.
• Give different folders different orders — alphabetical for a reference folder, by date for a reading log.
• Write as you save — a line of notes now is worth a great deal when you return in a year.
• Search rather than browse once a library grows.
• Sync before travelling so your latest changes are backed up.

Common Questions

Related

• Quran and Hadith Library — where you save from
• Notes — Qalam — notes that live in your folders, with verse and hadith references
• Search — search Collections alongside the library
• History — what you saved and when
• Premium — backup and sync