> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.oystack.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Hub and Collections

> Organize your research library, collections, notes, and source material in Oystack

# Hub and Collections

The Hub is where you organize your research workspace. It gives you a place to group source material, keep project-specific notes together, and open documents when you are ready to read or analyze them.

## What you can do in the Hub

* Create collections for a project, thesis chapter, client brief, class, or topic.
* Add papers, drafts, and references to the right collection.
* Search and sort your collections as your library grows.
* Open a collection to switch between **Notes** and **Resources**.
* Move from stored material into reading, analysis, and drafting without rebuilding context each time.

## Working with collections

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a collection">
    Open the **Hub** and create a new collection for the work you want to keep
    together.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add resources">
    Add files or references to the collection so they are available in that
    workspace.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Use the notes and resources tabs">
    Inside a collection, use **Resources** to manage source material and
    **Notes** to draft, compare findings, and capture ideas.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open a file when you are ready to read">
    Select a file from **Resources** to open it in the reading and analysis
    view.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Organizing as you go

Collections work best when they reflect how you actually think about the work.

* Keep one collection per project, topic, or deliverable.
* Use notes inside the collection instead of keeping ideas in a separate app.
* Move or copy source material when it becomes relevant to more than one collection.

<Tip>
  If a paper supports more than one project, keep your organization practical.
  Collections are for clarity, not perfection.
</Tip>

## What happens inside a collection

Each collection gives you two main working surfaces:

* **Resources:** Your papers, files, and imported references.
* **Notes:** Your drafts, reading notes, and in-progress thinking linked to that collection.

That means you can gather material, read it, and write against it from the same workspace.

## Explore next

* [Uploading documents](/documents/uploading)
* [Notes and citations](/workspace/notes-and-citations)
* [Reading and analyzing a paper](/documents/reading-and-analyzing-a-paper)