Tomebound Help

Collection Basics

Use the collection view to scan, search, sort, edit, and price your singles.

Starting with an empty collection

After a first sign-in finishes syncing to a genuinely empty account, a two-step setup guide asks whether you want to import a collection, import a deck, or add cards one by one. The next step explains the selected path, introduces the collection, container, deck, history, export, and sharing capabilities, then opens the existing workspace for that task.
Closing or finishing the guide keeps it from appearing automatically again on that account in the current browser. An empty collection always keeps a Show setup guide action, and signed-in users can also choose Restart setup guide from the Account section in Settings. Restarting the guide is safe on a populated account and does not change collection data.
Opening a container or deck that has never held any cards shows a plain no-cards-yet message. That is different from a search or filter matching nothing in a non-empty collection, which shows the zero-results debugger described under Search and filters below.

Table and visual views

The collection view has a table mode for dense editing and a visual mode for browsing card images. Known printings request their artwork as cards come into view, without waiting for the collection's background metadata refresh. Images that are unavailable show a placeholder.
Containers, including the signed-out trade-binder demo, use those same table and visual views, search, filters, and View settings. A container's visual default no longer opens a separate grid workspace. Binder pages are an optional layout in visual View settings. The demo keeps the same browsing controls while hiding account-only editing and sharing actions; demo cards are not saved.
Visual View settings offer one full-width four-stop card-size slider. The four unlabeled notches snap to Compact, Medium, Large, and Extra large; the current named size and pixel width appear above the track and are announced by assistive technology. The choice is remembered. You can instead display cards as fixed binder pages in 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, or 4x3 pocket layouts. Tab to a binder card and press Enter or Space to open its details.
Normal finishes stay visually quiet. When Visible fields > Finishes is enabled in visual view, foil and etched cards show their finish in the metadata line beneath the card, between quantity and price, plus the same material treatment used by the enlarged card in Details. Disabling Finishes removes both the label and treatment.
On pointer devices, visual card art gains one solid, fully opaque outline in the theme accent color on hover so it reads as clickable without moving or shifting layout. Keyboard focus uses the same treatment, including in reduced-motion mode.
Sort the table by name, set, collector number, finish, rarity, condition, container, tags, quantity, or price. Tags sort alphabetically, with card names breaking ties; untagged cards come first in ascending order.
In table View settings, choose comfortable or compact row density, show or hide columns, drag headers to reorder, resize their edges, or reset the entire table layout. The Select and Name columns stay pinned while you scroll a wide table horizontally. Book appearance uses ornate column headings, shortened to their initial when a column is narrow.
Right-click a card or its location for quick actions. Destination submenus open toward available space and remain inside the screen; long menus scroll so every destination stays reachable.
Collection updates preserve your tag filter and unsaved tag identity edits, along with keyboard focus. Table tags stay on one line in dense mode. When the cell cannot show every tag, a +N badge reports how many are hidden; click the cell or its + action to review and edit the full tag list.
Open a card from either view to see its artwork, mana cost, and price, make quick quantity or container changes, add another copy, and jump among other tracked copies of the same card. Each tracked copy identifies its set and collector number separately from finish, condition, language, location, and quantity. An open card is reflected in the address bar, so refresh restores it and the browser Back button closes it without losing your collection view.
Hover or keyboard-focus a displayed price to see its currency, Scryfall provenance, latest snapshot date when available, and whether a regular-price fallback is standing in for a missing exact-finish price.
Prices come from a daily Scryfall snapshot. The footer's prices as of date shows when the latest available snapshot was generated. If an update fails, the previous snapshot stays available with its original date.
The card drawer also shows which of your Tomebound decks use the card. Less-common printing, finish, condition, language, and tag corrections stay under Edit details. These edits stay staged while you browse printings or the collection refreshes. Save or Shift+Enter commits them; Cancel or Escape discards them.
Use the previous and next buttons, or the j and k keys, to step through the drawer in your current filtered and sorted order without closing it. Stepping stops at either end of the list, and j/k are ignored while you are typing in a field. On desktop, close the drawer with Escape or by clicking outside it; the full-width mobile drawer also has a close button. Closing the drawer returns you to the card you opened it from.

Search and filters

Plain text searches card names. If you type more than one word, each word must match.
The sidebar has three destinations: Collection, Containers, and Decks. Their semantic icons stay consistent in the sidebar and page headings. Containers and Decks are collapsible lists; hover or move keyboard focus into a group row to reveal its Add action. Cards with no container appear as a muted No container set row at the end of Containers, with a live count, and it is hidden when every card has a container.
On desktop, the account menu sits at the bottom of the sidebar. Use the button beside the Tomebound name, or press [, to show or hide the sidebar. Drag the sidebar edge to resize it, or click anywhere on that edge to collapse it. With the edge focused, use arrow keys to resize or Enter to collapse. A closed sidebar becomes a narrow book spine; click it to reopen navigation. On tablet-sized workspaces, the sidebar starts closed so the collection keeps enough room.
On phones, the sidebar button opens navigation. Tap Account at the bottom to open the account menu above it, then choose Sign in if you are signed out. Escape or a tap outside closes the open menu or navigation. Browse & filter opens a drawer with separate Browse, Filters, and View tabs. Browse contains search and collection destinations, Filters contains card criteria, and View contains table/visual and saved-view settings.
Use filters for set, rarity, finish, tag, and format legality.
On desktop, Search expands across the available collection toolbar space. Filters sits in the right action cluster beside the Table/Visual toggle and View settings; its popover stays anchored to the Filters button and flips or clamps inside narrow viewports. Escape, outside click, or Apply closes it and returns focus. While you edit Filters, Apply previews the exact number of cards the draft will show.
The Filters button shows the number of active filter groups. Reopen it to review or remove individual criteria, then Apply; the clear button beside Filters removes all of those criteria while keeping your search text. Escape discards unapplied edits.
Use shortcuts for precise searches: t:creature for type, c:rg for colors, o:"flying" for rules text, set:fin for set, tag:trade for tags, loc:bulk for a container, and loc:none for cards with no container.
Use comparisons like cmc<=3 for mana value 3 or less and qty>=2 for two or more copies. Put a dash before a term to exclude it.
Start typing a shortcut like set: or loc: and a dropdown suggests the field, then matching values from your own collection (set codes, container names, tags, and so on) - pick one or keep typing your own. Plain name searches never trigger it.
When a search and filter combination matches nothing, the empty state names the specific filter responsible when there is one clear cause, with a button to remove just that filter or clear everything. When legality or price data for some cards hasn't finished loading yet, that is called out instead of blaming the format or price filter - unknown legality and unknown price never count as match failures, so cards stay visible while their data backfills.

Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac) opens quick jump: type to find a card, a container or deck, or run an action - new deck, new container, import, export, open history, and settings, alongside help, feedback, and chat.
Press / to focus search from anywhere. Focusing an empty search field shows your recent searches with a quiet recent label; use the pointer or Arrow keys and Enter to pick one, or keep typing.
In table view, arrow keys move a keyboard cursor between rows. Shift+Up or Shift+Down extends a selection range from where you started. Space selects the focused row without opening it; Enter opens it.
Inside the card drawer, use j and k to step to the next or previous card in your current filtered and sorted order, same as the previous and next buttons.
The [ key shows or hides the sidebar. Elsewhere, a (add cards), h (help in a new tab), f (capture feedback), and c (collection chat) are one-key shortcuts, and Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z) undoes your last change. Help also opens in a new tab when chosen from quick jump, so your collection position and filters stay in place. All of these are ignored while you are typing in a field.

Saved views

A new account starts with one saved Collection view, which is both current and default. It owns the current search, filters, sort, columns, and table or visual layout.
Changing those controls marks the current saved view as modified. Use Save changes to update it, or Save new view to keep the original and activate a new saved view.
The active saved view appears in one management row. Its ellipsis menu contains Rename, Duplicate, Set as default, and Delete; the default view explains why Delete is unavailable until another view is made default. Other saved views appear below when available, and Tomebound asks before replacing unsaved modifications.
When renaming a saved view, Enter saves and Escape cancels. Your unfinished name stays in place when the collection refreshes in the background. Saved views synchronize with the rest of your collection preferences across signed-in devices.

Link to this view

Copy view link, in the view settings panel, copies a link back to your current filters, sort, and table or visual mode. Opening that link creates an ad-hoc view and never overwrites a saved view; use Save new view if you want to keep it.
This is not the Share link under Export and share - it does not grant anyone read access to your cards. It is a private bookmark to a view of your own collection, for you.
The link never includes search text, tags, container names, or oracle/type-line text searches, since those can contain personal wording. It carries only closed choices - set, rarity, finish, format, format legality, color, condition, language, and numeric ranges like price or mana value.

Totals

The footer summarizes the current collection or view: unique cards, total cards, estimated value, and container or deck counts where they apply.
The right end of the footer shows a compact rendering of the most recent change, a one-click undo only when that exact event is still safe to reverse, and a history link that opens the full history panel. Hover or focus the compact line or an entity in it to reveal the complete event. It updates for changes made in chat, the CLI, or by an agent as well as your own edits. On desktop, Help, Feedback, Chat, and Add remain individually visible at the lower right. On smaller screens, those actions and History live behind the compact More launcher.
Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac) also triggers that same undo, as long as you are not typing in a field. Large undos still ask you to confirm first.
Prices come from Scryfall data when available and are estimates for collection management, not financial records.

History and undo

Open the history panel from the history link in the footer. It lists recent changes with the time, where each change came from, and per-entry undo, redo, and remove controls. Undo and redo appear only while the exact stack transition remains safe; their accessible labels state the full action they will reverse or reapply. History updates preserve keyboard focus on controls and card references that remain available. Removing a focused entry moves focus to a neighboring entry, or back to the scope controls when the list is empty.
History summaries come from one structured event formatter shared by the panel and footer. They distinguish create, delete, rename, set, change, clear, add, remove, and move; card edits name fields such as quantity, printing, finish, condition, language, tags, container, and deck zone. Bulk actions name representative cards and disclose the accurate remaining count.
Container, deck, and tag references use compact inline identity chips with the full captured name and historical emoji or semantic fallback icon, so a later rename or deletion does not rewrite older history. Existing containers and decks can be opened from their history references; deleted entities remain readable without becoming broken links. Card names are restrained underlined text links rather than chips. Hovering or focusing one opens its card preview in the global overlay, wholly clear of the History panel. The footer keeps the line compact, and hover or keyboard focus reveals its complete event and full names without shifting the page.
A bulk edit or bulk delete on multiple selected cards is recorded as one entry; undoing it restores every card in that batch together, not one at a time.
The panel scopes to what you are looking at. Switch between This view and All at the top; the choice is remembered.
History is stored per browser and capped, so it is a recent-activity log rather than a permanent audit trail. Sync keeps a smaller shared window across your devices.

Add And Import Cards

Add one card at a time, paste shorthand entries, or import a spreadsheet from another collection tool.

Add one card

Open Add Cards, search for a card, choose the exact printing, then confirm the preview.
Use set code and collector number when you care about the printing, for example fin 142. In a printing picker, Up and Down move from the filter into results. Focused results support Up, Down, Home, End, and Enter or Space to select. Price refreshes preserve the filter text, caret, and keyboard focus.
Set finish, condition, language, quantity, tags, and container before committing the card. Changing printing or language preserves your quantity draft, condition, tags, container choice, new-container text, and keyboard focus.

Paste shorthand

The text add flow accepts compact lines such as two fin 142 foil lp in breya deck.
Biblioplex parses quantity, set, collector number, finish, condition, language, and container when it can.
If a line is ambiguous, choose an exact printing before saving.

Import a spreadsheet or list

The import tab leads with how you're bringing cards in: upload a file, paste a list, or start from a provider link. Picking one reveals just that input; a compact what can I import? panel next to it lists the supported fields, two working examples, and a downloadable template CSV.
Switching import sources keeps the text and link you've entered in the open form. A failed provider fetch keeps the link so you can correct or retry it; a successful import clears it. While a file or provider import is running, the form prevents another submission. The upload area also opens the file picker with Enter or Space when focused.
Paste or upload spreadsheet exports from tools such as Moxfield, Manabox, Deckbox, or Biblioplex's own export format. Biblioplex detects common headers automatically.
If the headers aren't recognized, Biblioplex asks you to match each column to a field once, showing a sample value from the first row. That mapping is remembered by column name, so importing the same spreadsheet shape again skips the question even if its columns move. Older saved mappings may ask you to match the columns once more.
Before you confirm, the preview breaks rows into add, merge quantity, and needs attention, with a status next to each row. Choose whether cards already in your collection get their quantity added to or are left alone, and override that choice per row.
Confirming shows a receipt: the add/merge/attention counts, any warnings, the destination, and buttons to view the imported cards or undo the whole import in one step. An import that changes nothing has no undo button.
After import, Biblioplex fills in missing prices and search info when it can.

Scan cards

Open the scan tab and either use this device's camera or pair a phone by scanning the QR code shown on desktop.
Every card scanned from a paired phone lands in a live session queue on desktop, showing each card as pending, confirmed, corrected, or skipped, with running totals.
Phone-paired adds use the destination, condition, and tags currently set in the desktop add session, not anything picked on the phone, so a whole stack lands in the same container without repicking it per card.
Undo any confirmed or corrected entry from the session queue without touching the phone, or use fix match on any entry to search for the right card and re-add it if the scan matched the wrong printing.
The session queue stays populated if you close and reopen the add panel during the same visit.

Storage And Containers

Track where cards live with containers, decks, tags, and bulk actions.

Containers

Collection shows what you own, Containers organizes where those physical copies are stored, and Decks holds the lists you are building or playing. Each owned copy has one physical location, while the same card can appear in several decklists.
The collection table's Location column includes both containers and decks. Container counts describe physical copies. Deck sidebar and home counts describe required cards (main, commander, sideboard, and pool), excluding the optional maybeboard; the workspace's cards in list total includes the maybeboard. Sidebar count tooltips explain which is being shown.
The Storage view is for container management: create, rename, color-label, choose an icon, and manage containers. Icons can be a Biblioplex glyph, mana symbol, Magic set symbol, or emoji. Related Magic products that belong to the same set family share one set-symbol choice. Opening a container moves to the Collection tab scoped to that container; use the quiet actions menu beside its heading to edit container information.
Move copies to changes the physical location of owned copies; it does not add to or remove from any decklist. Clear location leaves those copies unfiled. Deleting a non-empty container likewise keeps its cards in your collection.
Every place you pick a destination container - adding a card, bulk-moving selected cards, editing a card, moving a card from its row or location pill's right-click menu, or importing - also lets you create a missing container inline with a name and an icon. Confirming returns you to that same picker (or, from a right-click menu, applies the move) with the new container selected and anything else you had set up (like a pending bulk edit) untouched. Entering a name that already exists selects that container instead of creating a duplicate.
The Storage home page stays a roomy card grid while you only have a handful of containers. Once it grows past a handful, a sort and layout toolbar appears above the cards: sort by name, recent, or value, and switch to a compact list for scanning a lot of containers at once. Search (the sidebar search box) already filters storage by name regardless of size. Your sort and layout choice is remembered on this device. Deck and container home updates keep keyboard focus and unsaved create or edit forms in place.

Container views

Your saved Collection views remain available while browsing a container, so you can switch filters and layouts without creating a separate container default. Because the page is already scoped, its cards and table do not repeat the current container as a separate field.
Grid view shows cards as pages (4x3, 3x3, 2x2, or list) with filters for color, type, search, sorting, and price; exploratory sort and filter views do not change the saved slot layout.
List view is a dense, scoped inventory list for sorting, filtering, and bulk edits.
Leaving a container, deck, or collection view and coming back silently restores where you scrolled to and which row you had open for that scope.

Bulk edit

Select rows in table view to move, tag, untag, correct condition, correct finish, correct language, or delete many cards at once.
Bulk edits preview their pending action in the toolbar before they commit. The Save button counts only selected cards visible under the current filters; it is disabled when all selected cards are hidden.
Use clear to leave selection mode without changing cards.
If a filter or search hides some of your selected cards, the toolbar states how many are hidden with review and clear hidden actions. Bulk actions only ever apply to the cards currently visible - hidden selections are never silently included. Sorting never hides a card, so it never affects your selection.
Export selected opens the same export data flow used from the account menu, scoped to your selection (still only the visible, non-hidden cards).
On desktop, you can also drag a card row - or your current selection - onto a container or deck in the left sidebar to move it there in one step. This is a shortcut for the same move, not a separate one: it still only moves the visible, non-hidden cards, and dropping outside a real container or deck does nothing. The "move to..." menu and keyboard selection remain fully supported.

Decks

Plan decklists, track owned copies and physical contents, check formats, and export lists.

Create and open decks

Use Decks to create a deck, then open its workspace. Its decklist describes the plan; owned copies can stay in a binder, another deck, or this deck's physical location.
When adding a card to a deck, choose decklist only to add the requirement without changing owned inventory. The action then reads add to decklist. With that option off, add to decklist + collection also records new owned copies at the selected deck location; it does not move existing copies. A deck card's record an owned copy action likewise records additional inventory. To relocate a copy you already own, use move copies to from Collection.
Removing a card from a decklist or moving it between list sections leaves physical inventory unchanged. Build mode shows matching copies owned across the collection and, separately, all copies physically stored in this deck, including extras outside the list. Owned counts may include copies in other decks: decklists do not reserve cards. For example, one Sol Ring can satisfy the owned check for two planned decks, but it still has only one physical location.
Decks can include maindeck, sideboard, maybeboard, and commander cards where supported by the workspace.
Deck history tracks meaningful edits so recent changes are visible. Open the history panel from the footer while a deck is open and it scopes itself to that deck.
The Decks home page stays a roomy card grid while you only have a handful of decks. Once it grows past a handful, a sort and layout toolbar appears above the cards: sort by name, recent, or value, and switch to a compact list for scanning a lot of decks at once. Search (the sidebar search box) already filters decks by name regardless of size. Your sort and layout choice is remembered on this device. Deck and container home updates keep keyboard focus and unsaved create or edit forms in place.

Import a decklist into a new deck

Choose import when creating a deck, then paste a decklist or a provider URL (Moxfield, Archidekt, MTGGoldfish, and similar). Leave add these cards to my collection unchecked for a list-only import, or check it when the imported printings should also become owned collection cards.
Provider imports bring over the deck name, description, and format whenever the source supplies them. A source description that only repeats the detected format is omitted. Main deck, sideboard, commander/companion, and maybeboard cards keep their quantities and separate boards. MTGGoldfish URL imports recognize its blank-line sideboard separator; pasted lists should use explicit section headings or SB: prefixes.
When the source omits the format, Biblioplex makes a best-effort inference from commander markers, deck size, copy counts, and resolved card legality across the main deck and sideboard. It tries Standard, Pauper, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, then Vintage for 60–80-card constructed lists and labels the result inferred in the review. Source formats always take priority; incomplete or uncertain lists remain unset. You can correct the format in Edit details after importing.
Before the deck is created, a review screen shows what was detected: commander and partners, format, maindeck/sideboard/maybeboard totals, unknown cards, unspecified printings, and duplicate lines.
Source-selected sets and collector numbers are preserved when available. MTGGoldfish imports use the author's saved versions when Use Specific Card Versions is enabled, not the site's automatically displayed cheapest versions. A neutral printing not specified label means the source only provided the card name; Biblioplex selects a default printing that you can change after importing. An explicitly requested printing that cannot be matched remains a warning instead of being silently replaced by another edition.
Nothing is created yet at that point. Go back to edit the pasted list or URL and try again, or confirm to create the deck with those cards. After a successful import, Biblioplex adds the deck to Decks, opens its workspace, and records both its total card count and unique-card count in history.
If any card cannot be resolved, confirmation stops without creating a partial deck or adding owned copies. Correct the unknown card or retry the lookup instead of losing it silently.
Closing or canceling the review leaves your collection and deck list exactly as they were - there is no partially created deck to clean up.

Build and review

Open deck details retain unsaved fields and keyboard focus during collection refreshes. Use the single workspace bar to move among Stacks, Gallery, Decklist, List, Stats, Sample hand, and Notes. Stacks, Gallery, and Decklist add a contextual row with Group by, Sort within, and View settings. Group by type, mana value, color, color identity, rarity, first tag, or none, then sort by name, mana value, or price. Sparse neighboring mana-value stacks share a column automatically while tall stacks and lands keep their own columns.
The deck header has one quiet summary for cards, lands, average mana value, and list value. Turn on Build mode in the workspace bar to add ownership counts, missing-card tools, physical locations, and owned value. Ownership details expands the physical count, owned value, and how shared copies are counted. Legality is stated against the current format rules: an older Standard list can identify cards outside the current format without claiming that Biblioplex knows the deck was once legal. Expand the issue summary for the full explanation. Use show cards beside an illegal status to highlight and move to the affected cards. On desktop, the preview beside the deck keeps the selected card's printing, rarity, finish, condition, language, treatments, promo types, and tags visible whenever those details are available; click it to open the full card drawer, or use flip card for a double-faced card. In visual and gallery views, cards with multiple copies have a numbered tab on their left edge; single-copy cards have no tab. Foil and etched cards use the same visible material treatment as other card surfaces without placing a finish label over the artwork.
In every deck format, the visual stacks give the maindeck the full workspace width. A non-empty sideboard follows underneath as a single stack, while an empty maybeboard stays hidden until cards are moved into it. Non-empty maybeboards and Limited pool sections also follow underneath the maindeck. Small, medium, and large set fixed, predictable stack sizes on desktop; narrow screens may compress them to avoid overflow. Biblioplex adds another column only when it meaningfully shortens the tallest stack, otherwise neighboring groups share a column at the selected size.
New decks start on Standard and can also use Custom for kitchen-table or otherwise nonstandard lists. Use format selection to check legality for Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, or Pauper. Commander decklists show the commander in a dedicated Commander category.
Decklist mana costs use card-symbol glyphs. List view uses deck-specific columns for quantity, name, mana cost, type, mana value, set, finish, price, and tags. Stats includes curve, rarity, composition, pips versus colored lands, full-list and owned value, and the ten most expensive cards. Sample hand shows lands drawn, expected opening-hand lands, play/draw position, and London mulligans. Keyboard focus stays on its controls after drawing or mulliganing. Draw is disabled when the library is empty, and decks without maindeck cards show an empty-hand message.

Export and share

Export decklists for external tools from the deck workspace.
Share creates a read-only snapshot link for a deck or collection view without giving edit access.
While a share link is being created, repeated creation is disabled and you can still close the dialog. The new URL is selected for copying when creation finishes. Opening a shared link shows a focused read-only view: a banner across the top names what is being shared and when it was updated, and the table or card view fills the width. Exit in that banner returns you to your own collection. Shared decks carry the full list's prices, mana costs, and legality; on a phone they open directly in decklist view with one compact view picker.
Shared snapshots omit row selection and every editing action, including move, add-copy, and delete controls in card details. You can still browse card details. The sidebar and user account actions stay hidden; what you are signed in as does not change what a shared link shows, and viewing one never touches your own collection.

Ownership and missing cards

The deck header shows an owned count against the maindeck total. When every card is on hand it reads as a plain count; when cards are short, it becomes an "N/total owned · M missing" button.
Opening it lists what's short, grouped into not owned, a different printing owned, and ambiguous (several other printings owned) - each entry explains the match, like owning a copy in another container under a different set.
From there you can point the deck at a printing you already own, choose which owned copy to use when more than one qualifies, or mark an entry as leave missing to quiet it until something changes. For commanders and partners, changing to an owned printing updates the command-zone card and deck header together; editing other deck details keeps an already-tracked printing unless you change the card itself.
Buy missing opens the current missing quantities in TCGplayer Mass Entry. Copy list puts the same plain-text quantities and names on the clipboard for another store or a manual order.

Sync, Backup, And Account

Your collection lives in your account in the cloud. This browser keeps a fast read copy so the app opens instantly.

Data on this device

Your signed-in collection is stored in the cloud; this browser keeps a read copy to speed up repeat visits. Startup confirms your account and sync connection before enabling edits. Chat and some dialogs prepare when you first open them after loading the page, so opening them may take a moment on a slow connection.
Editing needs you to be signed in and online. Signed in but offline, you can still browse the cached read copy, but changes are disabled rather than saved somewhere risky.
A save either reaches the cloud while you watch or fails with a clear error - there is no background queue, so what you see after a save is what is stored.
Signing out clears the read copy from this browser, and opening Biblioplex while signed out shows the signed-out demo instead of your last collection. Nothing is lost - your collection lives in your account, and signing back in restores it from the cloud.
Use export data before signing out or clearing browser data if you want a portable copy on hand.
Signed out, the account chip reads "demo - not saved" while the welcome demo is loaded; signing in replaces the demo with your account collection, and demo cards are never saved. If you try an edit in the demo, Biblioplex reminds you at that moment that the change is temporary. Empty signed-in collections show a zero state, with add and import available from the normal app controls.

Account sync

The sidebar account menu stays compact: it shows your full account name, then Account, Settings, Export data, and Sign out. Routine sync status is kept out of this menu.
When you are signed in, Biblioplex keeps changes in sync across your signed-in browsers. Everyday edits sync incrementally - only the change itself travels, not your whole collection.
Card art, prices, and printing details are not carried in the cloud copy. Tomebound refreshes that metadata silently from Scryfall after you sign in; known printings can display artwork directly while the refresh is still running.
Signed-in users manage personal access tokens from the Account section in Settings, keeping this less-common tool out of the main account menu (see Automation and integrations).
If two devices edit the same card at the same time, Biblioplex tries to protect the newer work instead of silently overwriting it.
During temporary signed-in connecting, offline, or bootstrap-error states, Add and row-selection controls remain in place so the page does not jump, disabled while writes are blocked and re-enabled in place on recovery. Startup, account restoration, and brief connection hiccups stay silent: a connection problem waits about eight seconds before it says anything, so a momentary drop that fixes itself never interrupts you. If it lasts, one banner across the top explains the situation and offers Retry sync. A change that actually failed to save says so immediately, and that message stays until you dismiss it or a later change saves. Only shared and signed-out demo views omit mutation controls.
Background prices, Scryfall metadata, set icons, search indexing, and remote revisions never reorder or rebuild the screen you are currently using. Routine background work stays silent and applies at your next explicit route, view, filter, sort, reload, or mutation boundary. Automatic card-detail backfills do not flash a separate progress message.
A failed sync always shows as an error banner - there is no silent queue - while routine successful syncing stays out of the way.
If sync looks stuck, copy the support details from settings and include them with a bug report.

Collection size limits

Collections up to about 50,000 cards sync comfortably. Cloud storage does not refuse saves by size, and everyday edits transfer only the change itself.
Cloud storage is not presented as a quota you need to manage; at this scale, the practical limit is the browser's memory rather than a sync meter.
The first sync on a new device still downloads the whole collection once; after that, updates arrive incrementally. Beyond roughly 50,000 cards the practical limit becomes your browser's memory, not the cloud.

Backups and recovery

Export data asks for a scope every time - entire collection, only the cards matching your current filters, or just the cards you have selected - so a stale filter can never quietly produce a partial file you mistake for a full backup. It also remembers the format you last used and shows a receipt with the count, format, and filename after the download.
Biblioplex JSON, the full portable backup with containers, decks, tags, and saved history, is only offered for the entire-collection scope; the CSV formats support all three scopes.
To restore a Biblioplex JSON backup, sign in, open Add cards, choose import, then upload a file. The preview shows its card, container, and history counts and offers a download of your current collection first. Check the replacement box and choose restore backup. This replaces your account collection across devices; cancel leaves it unchanged.
JSON backups must be smaller than 8 MB and fit your account storage limit. Stay online during restoration. If your account or collection changes while the preview is open, close it and open the file again to review the current state.
History and recovery points can help undo big changes, like deleting cards or replacing your collection.
Delete everything intentionally clears collection, decks, storage, and history for the current browser state.

Collection Chat

Ask natural-language questions and stage edits through the chat surface.

Ask questions

Use collection chat to ask about cards, prices, containers, tags, deck contents, and collection summaries. Questions about the most recently added or acquired card use its latest acquisition timestamp, while recently changed or moved questions use edit history instead.
Consult the tome answers questions using the current collection and may return cards you can open in the app. While a response is being prepared, Consulting the collection appears with three stars; the stars stay still when reduced motion is enabled.
Chat opens in a compact panel. On desktop, drag the Consult the tome heading to move it and drag an edge or bottom corner to resize it. The panel stays inside the screen and remembers its position and size; temporarily shrinking the browser does not replace your saved dimensions. Closing chat preserves your unfinished message. Reset chat appears after a conversation starts and clears the conversation, unfinished message, and any pending previews.
Choose a suggested question to send it, or write your own message and choose Ask. Enter sends; Shift+Enter adds a new line.
Collection chat requires signing in — opening it while signed out disables the message box and shows a sign-in reminder inside it.

Preview edits

For risky changes, chat creates a preview instead of immediately editing your collection.
Previews appear as proposed amendments. Review each entry, then choose Apply changes or Discard. With multiple entries, Apply all changes applies the group after confirmation; Discard all clears the pending previews.
Exact card additions may ask for a printing when the request is ambiguous.

Before changes happen

Chat can suggest changes, but risky edits wait for your approval.
Biblioplex checks that you are still signed in and allowed to make the change before applying it.
When possible, Biblioplex creates a recovery point before applying a chat change.

Automation And Integrations

Work with your collection outside the app: a command-line tool, agent access over MCP, and personal access tokens.

Command line (CLI)

Biblioplex has a command-line tool, biblioplex (short alias bp), for managing your collection from a terminal.
Install it with npm install -g biblioplex or brew install benson/tap/biblioplex, then run bp login to sign in.
It can search, add, edit, move, import, and export, and prints machine-readable output with --json plus meaningful exit codes for scripts and agents.

Agents and MCP

Biblioplex exposes an MCP server so external AI assistants can read your collection and stage changes.
Like collection chat, agent edits are previewed and need your confirmation before anything is written, and a recovery point is created before each applied change.

Personal access tokens

For headless or automated use without a browser sign-in, create a personal access token from the Account section in Settings while signed in.
Use it with the CLI or an agent by setting the BIBLIOPLEX_TOKEN environment variable.
Tokens carry read-only or read-and-write access and can be revoked at any time.

Preferences And Troubleshooting

Adjust the interface, load test data, and get unstuck.

Display preferences

Settings include theme, text case, text size, table-cell wrapping, anonymous analytics and session-replay controls, copyable support details, and signed-in access-token management. Book is the default appearance, with paper, cloth, and ornamental headings. Choose Light or Dark in Settings for a simpler surface; switching themes keeps your current collection view.
Preferences are stored locally in the browser.
The layout adapts across desktop and mobile, with drawers and floating actions replacing sidebars on small screens.

Analytics and session replay

For the US service, anonymous PostHog product analytics and session replay are on by default to help find confusing interactions. Analytics requests are routed through the first-party domain t.bensonperry.com before PostHog Cloud US processes them. Biblioplex does not attach your Clerk account identity or email to PostHog and does not create a PostHog person profile.
Replays can include the Biblioplex workspace you see and use, including card and deck names, searches, container names, imported text, and form values. Account and Clerk authentication surfaces and password fields are excluded; URL query strings, console logs, network bodies, error capture, and performance capture are not collected.
Open Settings to turn analytics and replay off or back on for this browser. A supported Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track browser signal keeps them off automatically.

Test data

Reset test data loads a representative sample collection for development and demos.
Use it only when you are comfortable replacing the current local state.

When something feels wrong

Check whether filters, search, or format legality are narrowing the current view.
Use clear all filters to get back to the full collection.
Copy the support details from settings when reporting a bug.