# What Favorites are

Favorites keeps the files and folders you starred in one short list, so the ones you reach for every day are a single select away.

Favorites is a shelf you stock yourself. Star a file or a folder anywhere in Nest and it joins this list, where it stays until you take the star away, however long ago you last opened it.

**Video coming soon:** A tour of Favorites: starring what matters, and reaching it again in one select.

## What the list lets you do

- **Star from a folder**: Mark any file or folder from its row menu in My Folders or Team Folders.
- **Star from Recent Files**: Keep a file you just used before it slides off that list.
- **Open a starred folder**: Go straight inside it without walking down from the top.
- **Download a starred file**: Save a copy with the button at the end of its row.
- **Take a star off**: One select, with nothing moved or deleted.
- **Read a row**: What the icon, the date and the two buttons each tell you.

## Favorites or Recent Files?

![The top left of Nest with Favorites open. The orange header carries the app switcher, the SorviAI logo, a Nest pill and four starred app icons. Below it a Favorites tab, then the heading Favorites above five rows, each a green spreadsheet icon with a name and the date it was starred: Management Accounts - August 2026.xlsx added Sep 8, 2026, Workshop Capacity Plan - Q4 2026.xlsx added Sep 5, 2026, 2027 Budget - Draft v3.xlsx added Sep 4, 2026, Tender Pipeline - Q3 2026.xlsx added Jul 8, 2026, and Trade Price List 2026 - Rev B.xlsx added May 2, 2026.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/favorites/favorites-screen.png)

*Starred on five different days, and still here. Nothing on this list expires.*

The two lists look alike and work in opposite ways. Recent Files fills itself from what you open and forgets the oldest as new files arrive. Favorites holds only what you chose, folders as well as files, and forgets nothing until you tell it to. A file you'll need again next quarter belongs here.

**How Recent Files differs** explains the other half of the pair.

## Start with these

- **Star a file or folder**: Add anything to Favorites from its row menu, wherever you find it.
- **Open a favourite**: Go into a starred folder or download a starred file in one step.

## Ways to get more from it

- **Star folders, not only files**: One star on a folder reaches everything inside it, including files added after you starred it.
- **Keep the list short**: Ten rows read at a glance. Take the star off work that has finished.
- **Catch shared files on the way past**: Shared with Me has no star. Open the file once and star it from Recent Files.
- **Manage a team folder from its home**: A team folder opened from here has no Manage button. Go through Team Folders to change its members.