# Your favourites Star a tool (or, on Utilities, a utility card) and a big, cinematic tile for it appears in a strip above the grid. It's the fastest way back to the handful of things you actually use - built by you, one star at a time, not pre-loaded with anyone's idea of what you'll want. A fresh install shows none of this. There's no starter set: the strip simply doesn't exist until you star your first thing, and it collapses away again if you ever get back down to zero.  ## Starring and unstarring You star a tool in two places, and both write to the same list: - **In its right-click menu** - **Add to favourites** / **Remove from favourites**. On a phone or tablet, press and hold the card for the same menu. - **In the selection bar** - tick a card's checkbox (or several: ⌘/Ctrl-click, Shift-click a range or drag a box across empty space) and an action bar appears along the bottom with a **Favourite** button that stars, or unstars, the whole selection in one go. Right-clicking inside a selection offers the same **Favourite** / **Unfavourite** row.  The same star works on a **utility** card in the Utilities view - Verify & Inspect, Colour Lab, Unpack, Spreadsheet and the rest. They aren't tools (no saved sessions, nothing to keep offline), but the strip treats a starred one exactly the same way: a tile of its own, icon-led since there's no preview to show. > Not the strip you're after? The **★ Favourites** pill in **Sort & filter** shows the same starred set as an ordinary filtered list in the grid below, instead of the drifting strip up top - useful if you'd rather scan a plain list. **One star, two lists.** The ★ on an **asset** ([Using Lolly → Assets](/info/create/using.html#assets-your-library)) is a different list entirely: it pins that logo, image or colour to the top of every asset picker. Same verb, same glyph, unrelated sets - starring a tool never touches your pinned assets, and vice versa. ## Gallery or Cover Flow Open **Sort & filter → Featured view** to choose how the strip itself looks: - **Gallery** - a slow, calm filmstrip that drifts sideways on its own and pauses the moment you touch it. - **Cover Flow** - the same tiles fanned out in 3-D, one centred and upright, the rest tucked back at an angle; drag or flick through them, then press **Open** on whichever one is centred. A new install opens on Cover Flow at desktop width and on the plain filmstrip on a phone-width screen - the fan doesn't hold up that narrow yet - but the moment you pick one yourself, that choice sticks and stops guessing. ## This is local, not part of the design system Your starred tools are saved onto your **profile** - the same on-device record that holds your name, your headshot and your other preferences (see [Profiles](/info/create/profile.html)). That means: - It's saved **on this device**, in the browser's own local database. No account, nothing uploaded. - It has nothing to do with the **design system** - the colours, fonts and tools the app was set up with. Starring a tool is a personal shortcut for you; it changes nothing about what anyone else's install shows. - It travels only where your whole profile does: with [Sync](/info/create/sync.html), to the storage you chose for it and on to your other devices, or in a backup you export and import yourself. It never goes to a Lolly server. Even the choice between **Gallery** and **Cover Flow** is more local still: it lives in a small preference kept only in this one browser's own storage, and it isn't part of that profile export at all. A new device always starts back on the plain default, no matter how many profiles you've moved around. --- **Related:** [Search](/info/create/search.html) for the other way back to something quickly. [Using Lolly](/info/create/using.html) for the gallery, hiding tools you never use and the rest of the app. [Profiles](/info/create/profile.html) for what else rides on that on-device record. --- Code ([MPL 2.0](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/)) · Content ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)) · [lolly.tools](https://lolly.tools)