Organization Pro: Using Custom Lists to Curate Your Material
Labels and Lists might seem like they do the same thing but they work differently. A label describes what a joke is at its core, the subject matter, and it tends to stay on that joke permanently. A List is more fluid. You can put a joke on a list, take it off, move it to a different one. Lists are about where a piece of material is in your workflow or what purpose it serves right now, not what it is. Here are a few ways to actually use them.
Submission tape candidates
Festival and club submissions require your sharpest material, and it needs to be consistent every time you record. Create a list specifically for your submission tape and add only the jokes you plan to record. When you go to mics to work on those bits, you know exactly what you're there to refine. You're not getting distracted by new material or half-finished premises. The list keeps you honest about what the goal is.
Road sets and tour prep
Material that kills at your home room doesn't always travel well. Local references, crowd callbacks, and bits that rely on the audience knowing who you are can fall flat in a new city. When you're heading out of town, create a list for your road material. These are the bits that work without context, the jokes that land on their own without anyone needing to know you personally.
Having that list ready means you're not rebuilding your set from scratch on the train. You already know what to pull from.
The 'maybe' pile
Not every premise is ready to be a draft, but you don't want to throw it out either. A custom list called something like "Premises to Revisit" is a useful middle ground. You can drop a half-formed idea in there, leave it alone for a few weeks, and come back to it when you have more time to actually write it out. It's less pressure than a formal draft and less likely to get lost than a note in your phone.
Default lists
Some lists are created by default for every user on the platform. These are starting points designed to cover the most common organizational needs right out of the box, so you don't have to build your structure from scratch. You can rename them, add to them, or ignore them entirely and build your own. They're there to give you a foundation, not to lock you into anything.
Organization tip: Lists vs. labels vs. sets
A label describes what a joke is at its core and stays on it. A list is where a joke lives right now, which can change as your material develops. A set is a specific order of jokes built for one performance. All three work together: label your material by subject, organize it into lists by purpose, and pull from those lists to build sets.