Set up advice: directories and navigation

[malebron]

If you want to find something specific, you have to search alphabetically or by typing in the exact name of the title in the search bar.

Unless it's something recent, I'm unlikely to remember the title! I may be looking for "that cool documentary about the Mars helicopter I watched a few years ago". It may not even have the word "Mars" in the title. My current setup might  be antiquated and look like crap, but finding that would be a snap. In Jellyfin, as I understand it so far, I'm not sure where I would start.  I guess I would need to have tagged it with keywords? Can you even do that?

Perhaps my situation is unusual, but I can't imagine it's unique. Over many years I have accumulated so many terabytes of stuff that, to keep things manageable, I keep breaking things down into finer and finer granularity.  For example, just under Documentaries I now have 21 categories, and each of those has multiple sub-subcategories (Space, for example, has 25 sub-subcategories). The files and series live inside each of those.

A lot of the time I find things by browsing. I find all kinds of cool things I'd forgotten I had! I'd love to have a way to do that on Jellyfin.

I've seen mention of the terms "collections" and "groups" - not sure what they do. Any possibilities there?

In the web GUI, when you go to a library, there will be an icon that looks like an upside-down triangle made out of three stripes.

I see the menu item "filter", not the triangle.  Unfortunately nothing useful there (technical stuff, watched or not). No tags.

Now to answer your question, it's different per client. As in, it's up to the client to determine how you can filter down what is shown from a library on your screen.

Interesting. I thought clients just got whatever was provided by the web server.

I will be mostly watching on an LG TV. (I read that the app for that is just a wrapper for the web GUI)

Thanks