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Organizing your saved contact lists into folders

Your saved lists now sit in a panel beside your contacts, with live counts, folders, and a marker for lists that power a Facebook audience.

Written by Stephen Whiting

On your Contacts page, your saved lists now live in a panel on the left instead of a dropdown. You can see every list at once, how many contacts are in each, and group them into folders so the ones you use most are easy to find.

The lists panel

  • All contacts is pinned at the top and shows your total number of contacts.

  • Each saved list shows a count of the contacts currently in it. Counts load a moment after the page, so on an account with many lists they may take a few seconds to appear.

  • A green people badge on a list means it is being used to build a Facebook audience for your ads.

  • Click any list to show its contacts. Click All contacts to go back to everyone.

  • Use the Search lists box at the top of the panel to find a list by name.

Saving a new list

  1. Set up the filters you want on your contacts.

  2. Click the + button at the top of the lists panel.

  3. Give the list a name and, if you like, choose a folder for it (an existing one, or a new one).

Working with folders

  • Create a folder: click the New folder button (the folder with a plus sign) at the top of the panel. A folder can sit empty until you are ready to use it.

  • Move a list into a folder: hover over the list, click the Move to a folder icon (an open folder), and pick a folder. Choose No folder to take it back out.

  • Rename a folder: hover over the folder name, click the pencil icon, and type the new name.

  • Delete a folder: hover over the folder name and click the X. The lists inside it are kept. They simply move back to the lists that are not in a folder.

  • Collapse a folder by clicking its name to tidy the panel. StreetText remembers which folders you have collapsed.

Folders appear above the lists that are not in any folder.

Deleting a list

Hover over a list and click the X, then confirm. A list that is building a Facebook audience cannot be deleted, so your ads keep reaching the right people.

Making more room

Click the Collapse panel button (the double arrow pointing left) to shrink the panel to a slim bar and give your contacts more space. Click the double arrow pointing right to open it again. It stays collapsed the next time you visit on the same browser. On a phone, the panel is hidden and your lists are available from the dropdown instead.

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