What is a collection?
A collection is your own structured list inside Moonjar — fields, types, and all. When you tell the assistant “make me a list of plants with watering schedules”, it builds the schema for you and starts filling it in.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”Each collection has fields. Each field has a type — text, number, date, location, image, true/false, a fixed set of options, or a reference to another collection. Each collection has items, which are rows that hold one value per field.
When you add an item by chat, the assistant fills the fields in from what you described. You can also edit items by hand on the collection’s detail screen.
Collections can be reordered (drag-to-rearrange in the Collections tab), pinned with summaries, and grouped under parent collections.
Switching views
Section titled “Switching views”Each collection has a view picker at the top right of its detail screen. Five views are available:
- List — the default. One row per item with the title and a couple of key fields.
- Gallery — image-first card grid. Best for collections with an image field (books, restaurants, plants).
- Calendar — laid out by a date field. The picker prompts you to choose which date field to use when there’s more than one.
- Board — a Kanban-style grid grouped by a selection field (status, category, priority). The field picker only offers selection-typed fields.
- Map — pins items with a location field on a map. The field picker only offers location-typed fields.
Your last-chosen view per collection is remembered across devices. A view that depends on a field you don’t have (e.g. map without a location field) is grey in the picker.
Why you’d use one
Section titled “Why you’d use one”When something doesn’t fit as free-form notes:
- Books you’ve read, with star ratings and dates finished.
- Plants you own, with light needs and watering intervals.
- Restaurants you want to try, with cuisine and neighbourhood.
- Anything you’d otherwise build a spreadsheet for.
Collections are different from documents — documents are things you’ve captured (a webpage, a photo, an email), with fields Moonjar extracts. Collections are things you’ve defined.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- Collections are private by default. To share with others, see Share with a group.
- Reference fields target a collection you have access to — your own collections, or any shared with you through a group.
- The assistant won’t create a collection on its own — you have to ask.