What are Folders?

Folders provide a collaborative space to organize and plan your daily life!

Folders can be leveraged in a variety of ways depending on your needs whether it be weekly chores, meal planning or even planning a vacation!

Color coding across Maple:

Maple’s color coding system relies heavily on Folders to help power it across the app.

As you can see below, I have a folder set up for an upcoming trip to London. The color of the folder is blue.

Everything I add to this folder is blue to match, whether it’s an event or a todo item on my list. This makes it incredibly easy to distinguish different items from different folders.

There is no “right” or “wrong” way…

You can set up folders for anything you feel is vital to keeping your household organized. Here are some great examples of folders you might find helpful while getting set up:

• Family Folder: this could be considered an excellent place to add anything that relates to everyone in your household. It could be vital information that everyone should have access to. It could also just be a family event list so “Family Events” (everyone attending) show up on the calendar a specific color.
• Folder for each household member: This is a super common use of folders because it allows for each person in the household to have their own folder with dedicated things like event lists, todo lists, or even important information that everyone in the household should have access to. Furthermore, designates a specific color to each person’s stuff in Maple.
• Very common set-ups could be:
  • Folder for each child: School events, sports or extracurricular activities, chore lists, anything specific to that person.
  • Folder for each parent or a single Parent’s folder.
  • Folders for planning key things like holidays, birthday parties or vacations.

Important to note: Folders are the core working surfaces within Maple but not every Folder requires each everyone's attention. Members will only see the Folders they are invited to be part of. Furthermore, members will not see any To-dos, Events or any information that are housed within Folders they are not part of either.

Creating a Folder on your own:

Start a blank folder:

Enter a name and select an emoji that best represents the Folder you are creating.

Be sure to choose a color for that Folder. All To-dos, Events, Notes and any other tools you decide to leverage related to this Folder will show up in the color you have chosen here making it super easy to track and manage!