Filing

Filing is how your material connects to the Map. Adding an item to a Topic says it belongs there — it does not move, copy, or read it. A Topic is a label on the item, not a folder around it. The same filing bar sits near the top of every open item; Board flags keep it inside their expanded row because they do not open on a separate page.

Filing, not folders

A Note stays in Notes and a PDF stays in Library; filing it under a Topic only says it belongs there. One item can be filed under several Topics at once, and removing it from a Topic never deletes it. Five kinds can be filed: Notes, Library sources, Images, Videos, and Board flags.

Note:  Topics do not hold other Topics. Nesting is the Map's job, so a Topic is never filed under a Topic.

Four ways something gets filed

  • From the Topic. Open a Topic's Hub, choose Edit, check or uncheck items, then choose Save changes.
  • From the item. On a Note, source, Image, Video, or Board flag, open its Topics list to see where it belongs. The title says exactly what you are looking at, such as Topics for this Note. If the Active Topic is not listed, choose Add to Active Topic: name beneath the list. For any other change, open the Topic and choose Edit there.
  • By asking Mesh. Say File the syllabus under Week 1 in the chat and Mesh does the same filing you would.
  • Automatically. With Auto-file new content on, everything new files under the Active Topic as it is made. That switch lives on the Map.

Mesh reads filing from both ends too — what is in a Topic, and what Topics an item is in — and can take a filing back out. Name the Topic and it files there; leave it open and it uses Home. It cannot invent a filing you did not ask for.

Note:  Chat messages, Focus, Board drawings and Pins, Map edits, and Memory never file themselves.

Where you see the filing

Two browsers show the same relationship from opposite ends.

Filed under this Topic
On a Topic Hub: everything filed under this Topic. Edit opens one checked list of workspace items; check or uncheck rows, then Save changes to add and remove them together.
Topics for this Note
The title follows the content — for example, Topics for this Note or Topics for this Image. The list shows every Topic the item belongs to. Choose a Topic to open it. When the Active Topic is missing, Add to Active Topic: name is the one filing shortcut here; all other additions and every removal stay in the Topic's Filed under this Topic editor.

Deletion cleans up after itself

Deleting an item removes it from every Topic it was filed under, along with its Board Reference chips and Pins. Deleting a Topic removes its filing rows, and every item that was filed there survives untouched. Your own writing and past chat keep their saved wording and show No longer available when the target is gone.