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Organising your library
Podium has deliberately few organising concepts, because a structure you have to maintain is a structure you will abandon. Here is what each one is for.
Projects
A project is the top-level container: a client, an event, a team, a quarter. Most people end up with a handful of long-lived projects rather than one per deck. If you find yourself creating a project for a single presentation, a folder inside an existing project is probably the better fit.
Folders
Folders subdivide a project when it genuinely has parts — sessions within a conference, workstreams within an account. They are optional, and a project with no folders is a perfectly normal project.
Presentations and slides
A presentation holds its slides, and each slide holds its own image and speaker notes. Reordering slides inside a presentation never affects anything else, so you can restructure a deck freely.
Recent
Recent lists what you have opened or edited lately, across every project. In practice this is how most people navigate day to day — the deck you need is usually the one you touched last week.
Archive versus trash
These solve different problems, and the distinction is worth learning.
- Archive: finished work you want out of the everyday view but fully intact. Nothing is deleted and you can restore it at any time.
- Trash: things you intend to remove. Items stay recoverable until you empty the trash, and emptying it is permanent.
- When in doubt, archive. It costs nothing and keeps the option open.
Plan limits
The Free plan allows 2 projects and 6 presentations. Archived items still count toward those limits because the content is still stored. If you are bumping into the ceiling, either empty the trash or move to Pro, which removes the limits.
Give every deck one home
Set up your projects once and stop hunting through drives and inboxes.