docs/use-cases-and-tutorials/creating-a-reading-list.md

Creating a Reading List

Steps

1. To create a Reading List, you need to click + on home, choose set.md and set Book as a source. That's it, **you have made a place for all your books! **
2. You can now add relations to your content. Ratings, Pages, Progress, Author, Goodreads Link.
3. For additional customisation, you can have multiple views along with filters to make your content more accessible.
   1. The Gallery view looks better for objects like this.
   2. Add filters by relation tag, so you will be able to sort books by themes
   3. You can add images as PageCover or with the relation.md attachment

{% hint style="warning" %} Sets collect all your objects that match given criterion. You can add a new book everywhere inside the Anytype, and it will be shown here! {% endhint %}

Custom type

If you want to create a more broad Reading List with several entities inside like Books and Articles at the same time, we propose to #create-a-type for that.

Template

It is convenient to create templates for each view and object type that you have. E.g. a template for Books will have Author, Rating, Pages etc. Whereas a template for Blogs posts or Articles will have the URL, Topic and other additional Information. Using templates with multiple views and filters is the fastest way to add new Information without opening pages.

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