Create & edit collections

Organize your posts and share them with others using collections.

Create a collection

  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. At the bottom right, click Compose Compose.
  3. Next to your name, click the link.
  4. Click Create a collection
  5. Enter a name for your collection.
  6. To choose who can see your collection, next to "Visible to," click the Down arrow Down Arrow.
  7. Enter a tagline.
  8. In the bottom right, click Create.

Share a post in a collection

  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. At the bottom right, click Compose Compose.
  3. Create your post.
  4. Next to your name, click the link. 
  5. Select an existing collection or click Create a collection.
  6. Click Post

Reshare a post to a collection

  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. Click a public post.
  3. Click Share Share.
  4. Next to your name, click the link.
  5. Select an existing collection or click Create a collection.
  6. Click Post.

Note: If you delete the original post, it's not deleted in the collection it was shared to.

Pin a post in your collection

You can pin a post in your collection so it shows at the top of the collection's page.
  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. Click Menu Menu and then Profile.
  3. Next to your "Interests," click View All.
  4. Click the post you want to pin.
  5. Click More More and then Pin to collection.

Edit a collection

  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. Click Menu Menu and then Profile.
  3. Next to your "Interests," click View All.
  4. Click a collection.
  5. Click More More and then Edit collection.
  6. Make your changes, then at the top right, click Save.

Delete a collection

You can delete a collection at any time, but you can't undo a deletion. When you delete a collection, all the posts you created in that collection are deleted. Posts reshared to the collection remain after the collection is deleted.

  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. Click Menu Menu and then Profile.
  3. Next to your "Communities and collections," click View All.
  4. Click a collection.
  5. Click More More and then Delete collection.
  6. Check the box, then click Delete.

See who's following your collection

  1. On your computer, open Google+.
  2. Click Menu Menu and then Profile.
  3. Next to your "Communities and collections," click View All.
  4. Click a collection.
  5. Click More More and then Collection followers
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