Board Folders

Board folders are a way to organize boards and saved reports into named groups, so the right thing can be found quickly among a pile of reports.

Board folders are not a big problem while the number of boards is small; but any active team, after a few months, reaches dozens of boards and saved reports, and there the lack of structure makes them all useless because no one knows where the right version is. A folder is usually built around a team or a topic (a marketing folder, a product folder), and as much as it helps finding, it helps governance too: it becomes clear which boards are official and trusted and which are experimental. The common trap is over-fine foldering that itself becomes another maze; a shallow, clear structure beats a deep tree. This is an organizing capability, not an analytical one; it has no effect on the data itself and only tidies access to reports.