Some things belong together but live apart: the apartment lease, the landlord’s letters, the deposit receipt — filed under different folders, correctly. A paperclip (clip) groups them without moving anything.
Three kinds of clips
- Manual clips — you curate them. Select files → right-click → Add to Clip, or drop files onto a clip in the sidebar.
- Smart clips — built in and always current: Filed This Week, Needs Review.
- Saved searches — any search saved as a clip; membership updates live, with a badge count in the sidebar.
Working with clips
- The Clips view in the left panel lists them all with counts.
- Click a clip to see its files in one list, regardless of where they live on disk.
- Removing a file from a clip never touches the file itself — a clip is a view, not a folder.
Let the assistant do it
The AI Assistant can build clips for you:
“Find everything about the apartment lease and clip it together.”
It searches, shows you what it found, creates the clip, and links each file so one click jumps to it.