DISCRIMINANT•LY

Collections

Records, grouped under a name you choose. Organization, with no claim attached.

Saving a note in Discriminantly on a phone: the collection picker open, listing the member’s collections such as coffee, fly fishing, fragrance and knitwear, each with a checkbox
Choosing collections while saving a note. A note can sit in several at once; a collection only groups, and claims nothing about what is in it.

What it is

Groups of related records.

Collections organize records: notes and marks brought together under a name of your choosing, such as a city, a theme, a trip or a kind of thing.

What keeping one asserts

Exactly this.

A collection asserts only that you chose to group these notes or marks together: a city, a theme, a trip, a kind of thing.

What it does not assert

And never implies.

Being in a collection adds no claim about any record in it: not owned, not visited, not endorsed, not even liked. A collection named “Favourites” is a name, not a warrant.

How it relates to the others

Separate records, separate meanings.

Collections hold notes, or marks. A record can sit in several collections. Collections are not plans: a trip you intend to take is an itinerary.

Where it appears

In the application.

On your profile, as a row of collections with counts, each opening to its records. Someone else sees a collection only when they can see at least one record in it.

In the application

From the member’s own record, on a phone.

A member profile in Discriminantly on a phone: counts of marks, itineraries, notes and ensembles, then the member’s collections as tiles with a cover image and a count
Collections on a profile, each a named group of notes with a cover and a count. A collection organizes records; membership in one says nothing about owning, liking or recommending.

With an authorized AI

Retrieved, and added, when you ask.

A connected assistant can list your collections, find records by collection, and place a note or mark in a collection when it saves one for you.

Privacy and provenance

Per record.

A collection’s name is visible to others only through the public records it contains. Private records stay private inside any collection.

An example

What a collection looks like.

Illustrative example Invented records, shown to explain the product. Not a real member.

CollectionKyoto2 travel marks · 1 noteKissa Hoshikawa · Gojozaka pottery walk · Hagi teabowl, Yamane kiln

What a collection proves, and does not

Plainly.

Proves

  • A collection proves you grouped these records under a name you chose.

Does not prove

  • A collection proves nothing about its members except that you grouped them.

The other records

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