Swipe file

The Swipe file is where the videos you save pile up. It is the raw material for your scripts and, over time, your record of what works in your niche. Open it at app.wholana.com/ideas, or Swipe file in the sidebar. The page has three panes: collections on the left, your swipes in the middle, and the swipe you are studying on the right.

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Saving a video

Every card in the Explore feed and on a creator’s page has a bookmark control: One video can live in several collections at once. The point is to capture without breaking your scan. Save first, organize later.

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Collections

A collection is a named group of saved videos. Organize them however fits your work:

• By format: talking-head hooks, POV intros, text-on-screen openers
• By question: what works for small accounts, viral skincare hooks this quarter
• By client or sprint: one collection per active project

The rail always holds two views you did not create:

• All swipes: everything you have saved, counted once per video even when it is filed in several collections.
• Unfiled: swipes you saved without picking a collection. It appears only when you have some.

Switch the rail between list and grid at its top, and add a collection with New collection at the bottom.

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Finding a swipe

The middle pane has a search box and a Sort by control: Press j and k to step through swipes from the keyboard. Select several rows to move, add, remove, or delete them together, with an Undo on every bulk action.

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Notes

Saving captures the video. A note captures your thinking about it. The detail pane has one Notes field that saves when you click away, up to 3,000 characters. Write what you would actually reuse:

• The hook: what happened in the first 1 to 3 seconds that stopped the scroll.
• The format: talking head, POV, slideshow, screen recording, voiceover.
• The angle: what made this different from others in the same format.
• What you would steal: one element you can apply. “The ‘three things I wish I knew at 25’ framing applied to skincare” is useful. “Good hook” is not.

Notes are fully manual. Wholana never generates, suggests, or auto-fills them.

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The detail pane

Open a swipe and you get, in one view:

• The cover and the video’s numbers, with a link to open it on TikTok.
• Collections: every collection this video is in. Click one to jump there.
• Used in: every script that references this video.
• Your Notes, edited in place.
• Wholana’s craft read of the video beside your note, so your take and the labelled analysis sit together.
• Turn into script: creates a new script seeded from this swipe and opens the editor.

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From swipe file to script

Turn into script is the handoff. Instead of a blank page you start from a video that already worked, with your own note about why, attached as a reference. You can also work the other way: open a script and pull a whole collection into its reference rail. See Scripts.

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