MySwipe
Instagram collections, set up well
- Keep the list short. Five broad collections, like Recipes, Travel and Work, get used. Thirty narrow ones don’t.
- File at the moment you save. Tap the bookmark, then Save to collection. Anything you don’t file then lands in All posts and probably stays there.
- Share the planning ones. Collaborative collections let a friend add to the same trip or recipe list.
- Prune now and then. Removing what you no longer need keeps each collection short enough to scroll.
Why it still falls apart
Filing happens mid-scroll, which is the moment you least want to make a decision. A post also fits more than one collection: a Lisbon bakery is food and travel. And a collection only shows thumbnails, so finding one post inside it is still a scroll.
Rules instead of folders
MySwipe tags every post you share, from what the post actually says. A collection is a rule over those tags. Pick #portugal and #food, choose any or all, and every matching save files itself, including the ones you share next month.
Hand edits stick. Add a save to a collection yourself and it stays, even if it doesn’t match the rule. Remove one and it stays out. Trips are the one kind of collection MySwipe makes on its own, from the places your saves mention.
And when you know what you’re after, search reads every save, captions and transcripts included, so you often don’t need to open a collection at all.
What to expect
MySwipe doesn’t import your existing Instagram collections. It organises the posts you share to it from now on, from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X or any link.