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description: Browse, organize, filter and search content in the Content library, and archive content you've finished with.
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# Work with the Content library

Find the content you need and keep it organized. Group related items into folders, filter and search to find items quickly, and archive content you've finished with.

## Your Content library

The Content library is where content teams spend most of their time. Go to **Content** to open it. You'll see everything in your current hub, which is named at the top of the window.

![Amplience Content Operations Platform showing Content library](https://cdn.media.amplience.net/i/ampproduct/platform-content-lp-1?w=1880&fmt=png 'Amplience Content Operations Platform showing Content library')

You can switch between grid and table view. Grid view shows the essentials on a card, such as name and publish status, while table view gives more detail, like the date created and the content type.

Every content item has a contextual menu for actions such as copying, publishing and archiving. To work with several items at once, select them and choose an action from the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

This video walks through browsing, searching and working with the Content library:

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## Organize content

Content lives in repositories, and you can add folders inside them to keep projects apart. Click a repository or folder to see what's in it.

### Add and move folders

To add a folder, right-click a repository or folder and choose **Add subfolder**, or click the **+** icon to add one at the current level.

To move content, select one or more items and drag them into a folder.

### Delete folders

To delete a folder, choose **Delete** from the folder's menu.

You can only delete empty folders. If a folder still has content in it, a message lets you know. Archive the content first, or move it to another folder or the top level of the repository, then delete the folder.

### Archive content

Move content you've finished with to the **Archive** folder at the root of its repository. Choose **Archive** from an item's contextual menu, or select several items and choose **Archive** from the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

![Amplience Content Operations Platform showing the content Archive](https://cdn.media.amplience.net/i/ampproduct/platform-content-archive?w=1880&fmt=png 'Amplience Content Operations Platform showing the content Archive')

Archiving isn't deleting. Published content stays live, versions saved to editions stay available, and you can still view the item and its revision history. Archived content can't be edited, published or copied, and won't appear in search results.

To use archived content again, open the **Archive** folder and choose **Unarchive** from an item's contextual menu, or select several items and choose **Unarchive** from the task bar at the bottom of the screen.

## Filter and search

As your content grows, use the filters to narrow down the list. Filtering before you search gives you less to search through.

A basic search looks in the name and body of your content, and in content IDs. To refine the results, add search parameters:

- **Quotes change what you get.** In a basic search, `"homepage banner"` matches either word, which is looser than without quotes. With a parameter, `label:"homepage banner"` matches both words in the label, which is stricter
- **Exclude with a minus sign.** Put `-` in front of a term to leave it out

If it's a search you'll run again, save it as a favorite.

## Related pages

[Create and edit content](https://amplience-developer-portal-git-develop-amplience.vercel.app/developers/docs/platform/user-guides/content/create/)

[Publish content](https://amplience-developer-portal-git-develop-amplience.vercel.app/developers/docs/platform/user-guides/content/publish/)

[Track changes](https://amplience-developer-portal-git-develop-amplience.vercel.app/developers/docs/platform/user-guides/content/track/)

[Browse and search assets](https://amplience-developer-portal-git-develop-amplience.vercel.app/developers/docs/platform/user-guides/assets/library/)