# Welcome to Nest

What SorviAI Nest covers, and the groundwork worth doing before your team moves its files in.

Nest is the file workspace in the SorviAI suite: your own folders, the folders your team works in together, and everything people have shared with you. These guides take one screen at a time, so you can read the page you're standing on and stop there.

![The Nest workspace, with the SorviAI header and the All Modules bar above a page headed My Folders. Five folder rows are listed: Strategy 2027, Expenses & Travel, Board Packs, Supplier Negotiations and Company Admin, each showing who created it, when it last changed and how many files it holds.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/getting-started/nest-workspace.png)

*My Folders, where most people begin.*

## What Nest covers

- **My Folders**: Your own files and folders. Nobody else sees them unless you share them.
- **Team Folders**: Folders a team owns together, with members and a role for each of them.
- **Shared with Me**: Files and folders other people have given you access to, in one list.
- **Recent Files**: What you opened last, so you can pick up where you left off.
- **Favorites**: The files and folders you starred, one select away.
- **Labels**: Your own coloured tags, grouping files across every folder they sit in.
- **Trash**: What was deleted, kept for a while so it can be restored.
- **Search**: Every file and folder you can reach, narrowed by type and date.

## Putting your files in

A file in Nest always lives in exactly one folder, and that folder is either yours or a team's. Start in **My Folders**: create a folder, upload into it, and drag files between folders as the shape of the work becomes clear. Anything the whole team needs belongs in a team folder instead, where membership decides who sees it.

![The New button at the top right of a folder, with its menu open on three entries: Folder, Upload files and Link. The view switch sits to the left of the button.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/getting-started/new-menu.png)

*Everything you add to a folder starts at New.*

Uploading takes one select, or none at all: drop files from your computer straight onto the folder you have open. **Upload files** covers the panel that appears and the limits an upload has to meet.

## Start here

- **Navigating Nest**: The header, the tabs, the folder toolbar and the three ways a list can be laid out.
- **How Nest works**: The two kinds of folder, the views laid over them, and what happens to a file over its life.

## Groundwork worth doing early

- **Team folders**: One per team or project, so shared work has a home that is not somebody's personal folder.
- **Members and roles**: Who belongs in each team folder, and whether they view, edit or organise it.
- **Labels**: A few tags of your own, so files that belong together are found together, whatever folder they sit in.
- **Storage settings**: The largest file Nest accepts, and which file types it accepts at all.

> **Note:**
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> These guides describe the new SorviAI interface. If the screen in front of you does not match the pictures here, you may still be in the older one.