Albums ◰
Star it, want it, shelve it. Starring is a bookmark and the Wishlist is buy intent — an Album is the third thing: a set you built on purpose, in an order you chose, meant to be looked at.
◰ is the Albums mark across PD.
How: Tap ◰ on any artwork to open the Add-to-Album sheet; your albums live on your profile.
- ①︎ The living mosaic — the first four Outputs, swapping one cell at a time; pick a COVER and it goes single-Output, full bleed.
- ②︎ The number — the album's whole identity; albums are never named.
- ③︎ The count — what it holds.
- ④︎ ◊ worth — the live sum of what its listed members are asking.
- ⑤︎ The maker — away from your profile, every tile carries your @name; curation is always attributable.
Numbered, never named
An album has no title. It is ALBUM 01, ALBUM 02, in the order you made them, and that number is its identity — "@collector's Album 03" is how the whole platform refers to it.
That is deliberate. Albums are seen by other people, and PD gives users no public-facing writing beyond their @name. What an album says, it says with the art in it. (The opposite trade is Lists — private, and named for exactly that reason.)
There's no cap. Make as many as you want.
Albums are public
Anyone can see an album and who made it. A tile carries the maker's @name over the album number wherever it appears away from their own profile, so curation is always attributable.
What that means in practice:
- Your albums are visible on your profile to visitors, not just to you.
- Every album holding an Output of a Project shows up on that Project's + More › Albums tab — everyone's, not just yours — so a project page reads as how the whole platform has shelved this work.
- An artwork's own Albums tab shows the albums it sits in.
- Shelving an album surfaces it to your followers in the social feed.
The rest of your saving layer is private: Starred, the Wishlist, Lists, and History are yours alone. See What's Private.
The cover
An album's tile is a living mosaic — the first four Outputs, in a 2×2 grid, quietly swapping one cell at a time for other members whenever the album holds more than four. It never sits still, and it never shows you the same four forever.
Pick a COVER instead and the tile becomes that single Output, full bleed, and stops shuffling.
Under the art, the tile reads the album's number, its count, and — when any member is listed — its ◊ worth, the live sum of what those Outputs are asking right now.
Getting Outputs in
- ◰ on any artwork opens the Add-to-Album sheet.
- A multi-select bar — tick Outputs anywhere they're selectable and file the whole selection at once.
- A Project's Albums tab offers your Outputs from that collection straight under the shelf: tap to pick, then ＋ ADD TO ALBUM. Hold none of it yet and it offers the first four minted Outputs so you can start a shelf anyway.
The sheet lists your albums with a tick on the ones already holding the Output, plus New Album to make one and file in a single move.
Inside an album
Tap any Output to open it.
▶ plays the album full screen — one Output at a time, crossfading, the whole shelf as an exhibition. (In ASCII Art Mode the show exhibits the text backups instead.)
SELECT turns on the power tools:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| REMOVE | Pulls the ticked Outputs out. They stay yours, and stay starred. |
| MOVE | Sends them to another album — out of this one, into that one, one step. |
| FRONT | Jumps them to the front of the order. |
| COVER | Pins one ticked Output as the album's cover. |
| DELETE ALBUM | Deletes the shelf. Every Output in it stays exactly where it was. |
An album's order is yours — it never re-sorts itself behind your back.
Albums and the Vault
The Vault (⚿) works the same way, for Outputs you actually own: numbered walls of grails, with a stats block reading the wall's real money and rarity. An album can hold anything on PD; a vault holds only your own.