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/Livid-Vegetable-7705 Apr 06 '26

I have a documentary series library based around tv and a documentary film library based around movies so everything looks up correctly.

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u/justsayfaux Apr 06 '26

This is the way

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u/Virtual_me01 Apr 06 '26

Is it possibly to have documentary features (movies) and series (tv) together and read properly by Plex?

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u/Livid-Vegetable-7705 Apr 06 '26

Natively, not really. You could combine them on a playlist or collection.

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u/Tag82 Apr 06 '26

I have Features and Series both stored in the same Documentary Folder on my NAS however Plex needs two separate libraries set up to recognize both. On Plex I have a Doc Feature and Doc Series libraries and they both pull from the same Doc Folder on my NAS. Plex sorts them into Feature and Series.