Favorites, presets, and categories
Pin what you love per preset, group channels your own way, and select many channels at once.
Objective
Organize a large library with per-preset favorites, custom categories, and presets.
Before you start
- Any connected source.
Steps
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Pin favorites with the heart
Click the heart on any channel, movie, series, or My Media item. Favorites belong to the active preset. Each preset (including the built-in Default) keeps its own favorite channels, movies, series, and local items, so switching presets switches the whole Favorites experience.
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Create custom categories
My Categories groups channels into your own lists (for example, everything you want in one place), independent of your provider's categories.
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Create presets
A preset scopes every surface (Live TV, Guide, Movies, Series, Search, MultiView) to the categories and items it includes. A preset can be locked behind the parent PIN and can carry Kids Mode.
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Select many channels at once (desktop)
In Live TV, click a channel's selection circle to start a selection, then hold Shift and click another channel: every visible channel between them is selected, Finder-style, in the order you see on screen. Use the actions menu in the header to add the selection to Favorites, a category, or a preset, or to lock it with Family Guard. The whole batch applies, or nothing does.
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Understand the limits
Free SlothMate includes 20 favorites per kind per preset, 3 custom categories with 20 channels each, and 2 custom presets with 20 items per kind. SlothMate Plus raises these (up to 50 categories with 5,000 channels, 30 presets with 2,000 items per kind, and unlimited favorites within a safety cap). If Plus lapses nothing is deleted: extra items stay saved and reactivate when Plus returns.
What it looks like
Captured from the real app over fictional data. No real accounts, playlists, or personal files appear.
Expected result
Your library is organized into favorites, categories, and presets that follow you across every screen.