# How to Organize Your Research with Folders, Notes, and Highlights

### Summary

Organize your **vlex legal research** efficiently using **Folders**, **Notes**, and **Highlights**. These tools allow you to save, manage, and annotate documents, turning your findings into a structured and reusable knowledge base.

### Why This is Important

Effective organization is the key to a productive **AI legal workflow automation**. By structuring your work, you can easily return to important documents, recall key insights, and build upon previous research, saving valuable time on every new project.

### How to Manage Your Research

#### Using Folders to Group Documents

**Folders** are the best way to group documents by case, client, or topic.

1. From the main menu, select **Folders**.
2. Click **New folder** at the bottom to create a folder. Use the drop-down arrow next to any folder to create subfolders, rename, or delete.
3. To add a document, click the **Add to folder** icon from the results page or the document viewer.

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#### Using Notes and Highlights to Annotate Documents

Add your own insights directly onto documents.

1. While viewing a document, select any passage of text with your cursor.
2. A small menu will appear. Choose **Highlight** to mark the text in green or **Note** to attach a comment.
3. Your annotations are saved automatically and can be viewed on the left side of the document.

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### Best Practices & Pro Tips

* **Find Your Annotated Documents:** To see a list of all documents you have marked up, go to **Folders** and select the **Documents with marks** view.
* **Save Key Documents as Favorites:** For documents you refer to constantly, click the **Save as favourite** (star) icon in the document viewer for quick access from the top of your Folders page.

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* [Pro Tip: How to Improve Your Search Results](https://support.vlex.com/vlex-library/vlex-library-home/workflows-and-productivity-tools/pro-tip-how-to-improve-your-search-results)

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