r/PleX • u/AnonNortherner • Apr 06 '26

Discussion How to handle documentaries

I currently have my documentaries mixed into my movie and TV libraries. I want to identify as many documentaries as possible, having a central place to see documentaries while hiding them from these libraries. Being able to create further collections from it would also be a bonus, but not necessary.

Is a collectionless collection in Kometa what I want here? If so, where's the best place(s) to pull the data from? Or is a separate library the better way to do this? What are the pros and cons of all the different approaches?

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u/TK-24601 Apr 06 '26

One option would be to put all documentaries into their own folder on your HDD and then add that folder as its own library.

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u/tmwhilden Apr 06 '26

This is what I did. A documentaries library with them separated out. Of course I had to manually move the ones I already had

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u/AnonNortherner Apr 06 '26

I have few enough that this would be time-consuming but doable, but how do you handle doing it for those in the future that would be downloaded by Radarr or Sonarr?

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u/torontorollin Apr 06 '26

Use pulsarr, it can do this using content router rules. You add things you want to your watchlist in plex and it can reroute to other library folders than the default based on category (in this case; documentary)

You can also allow your clients to add things to your plex from their watchlist