What is a collection?

Collections are groups of spaces focused around a specific topic, team or purpose. You can think of them as a folder for your spaces.

Aside from organizing your content, some of the key features of collections are:

• The ability to manage permissions of spaces at scale allowing you to override the organization-level defaults (read more about that in permissions).

• The ability to customize your collection and publish the spaces within it as variants (read more about that in collection publishing).

A collection in GitBook

Create a collection

You can create a collection directly in the sidebar:

Create a new collection from the sidebar

Or, in the collection view, by clicking the new collection button:

New collection button in the collection view

Move a collection

Hover over the collection name in the sidebar, then click on the triple dot icon that appears on its right-hand side. Click move to... from this menu and then choose its new location.

Nest collections

Collections can be nested inside each other, creating a collection -> sub-collection -> space hierarchy.

Hover over the collection name in the sidebar, then click on the triple dot icon that appears on its right-hand side. Click move to... from this menu and then choose its new location. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the collection to its new location.

Delete a collection

Hover over the collection name in the sidebar, then click on the triple dot icon that appears on its right-hand side. Click delete from this menu to delete the collection.

Deleting a collection is final, but spaces inside a deleted collection will be moved to 'Trash' and can be restored up to 7 days after deletion.