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Stories kept on a profile can be grouped. An album has a name and a cover, holds as many stories as you put in it, and sits on the profile or the channel where a visitor meets it before they meet anything else.
Which turns a pile of kept moments into something with a shape — provided the shape is one a stranger can read.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Group kept stories into named albums.
- check_circle Choose covers that survive being small.
- check_circle Build one for a visitor rather than for yourself.
- check_circle Notice what filing a story permanently commits you to.
Albums are built from stories you kept and from the archive, so nothing has to be re-posted.
folder_special A name is a promise about what is inside
An album is read twice: once as a title in a row of titles, and once when somebody opens it. The first reading is the one that decides whether the second happens, and it happens in about a second, from two or three words.
That makes descriptive names beat clever ones every time. A visitor scanning a profile is asking what is in there, and a title that answers the question gets opened while a title that sets a mood gets skipped. The same applies to the covers: at the size they are displayed, a frame from a video usually reads as a grey rectangle, and a picture with one clear subject reads as something.
The order is the other half of it. People open the first album and rarely reach the fourth, so the leftmost slot belongs to whatever you most want a stranger to see — which is very often not the most recent thing you made.
Four things an album can be
Same feature, four quite different jobs — and each one fails differently.
work A portfolio somebody can scan
feed What a channel cannot say with its feed
sell A catalogue people can actually use
event_repeat A record with an end
Ask who opens the profile and what they came to find out. Albums are for them, not for you.
preview Look at it as a visitor
Everything on this page comes down to one habit that almost nobody does: open your own profile the way a stranger sees it, and look at the row of covers without reading the names you already know. That view is what your albums actually are, and it is usually less legible than the version in your head.
What you are checking is whether somebody could tell, from that row alone, what you do or what the channel is. If two covers look identical, if a name means nothing without context you have not given, if the first album is the least interesting one — those are all five-second fixes, and they are the difference between a curated profile and a shelf.
settings Making one
- Open the posts tab on your profile or channel That is where albums live.
- Add an album and name it descriptively Two or three plain words.
- Pull stories from the archive as well Expired ones still work.
- Pick a cover with one clear subject Video frames read as grey.
- Put the strongest album first The fourth is rarely opened.
- Re-read what you filed Nothing in an album expires any more.
This page arranges stories after they are made. The curriculum step is how a channel gets to post them at all: what boosts are, who can give them, and what opening that surface asks of your readers.
At a glance
- 1Story albums
Group kept stories into named albums.
- 2Clear covers
Pick a cover that reads at a small size.
- 3Filing is permanent
Stories in an album stay visible past 24 hours.
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