Feature request: folders in filters

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  fireboltpro · Member · July 2, 2023 at 6:11 pm

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  I am a heavy user of both filters and folders.

  I primarily use my filters to get unplayed episodes of specific groups of podcasts, so often times the podcasts I select for a filter mirrors exactly one of my folders.

  Problem is that I have to update the filter manually to have it be the same content as the folder whenever I add something to the folder.

  Therefore I would love to be able to select a folder when using filters.

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  staff-joey8 · Staff · July 5, 2023 at 7:51 am

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  Hi @fireboltpro!

  Great idea! I have added this as a +1 on our ideas board :)

  We will keep this thread opened so others can also add their interest for this functionality!

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  urmeljon · Member · November 1, 2023 at 1:43 pm

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  Interest is there, especially for web client.

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  staff-fred · Staff · November 8, 2023 at 11:25 pm

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  @urmeljon I added your vote. Thank you!

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  tpdaws · Member · November 11, 2023 at 9:27 pm

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  Fantastic idea. makes total sense. I would love to see it

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  staff-fred · Staff · November 13, 2023 at 4:11 am

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  @tpdaws Added your vote. Thank you!

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  jfjonesiv · Member · December 4, 2023 at 10:19 pm

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  Yes, please, I would love this feature. I would love to filter the most recent podcasts, within a particular folder.

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  staff-lynn · Staff · December 8, 2023 at 11:36 pm

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  @jfjonesiv I have added your vote! Thanks!

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  happygun · Member · February 13, 2026 at 7:48 am

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  bump to highlight multiple requests for folders in filters.

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  tpdaws · Member · February 13, 2026 at 9:10 am

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  This would be a very important feature for me. I would love it if implemented

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  staff-eleanor · Staff · February 13, 2026 at 1:50 pm

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  Hi @tpdaws, and @happygun! Thanks for your feedback on this one. I’ve added your votes to this feature request too.

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  happygun · Member · February 13, 2026 at 1:56 pm

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  Hi Pocketcasts staff. is this on the todo list? It’s been requested by many people for a few years and would be a significant quality of life improvement for those that use smart playlists.
  Consider this example:-
  A user has subscribed to a lot of podcasts (Over the years I have subscribed to 145) and has organised them to folders, eg ‘news’, fiction, science, archive Each folder has between 2 and 45 podcasts.
  I want to create three playlists – news fiction and science.
  Currently I have manually create these from memory (or screenshot the folder, cross reference and add the podcasts one by one).
  I have to do this painful process multiple times.
  Then I have the ongoing maintenance task of keeping the playlists up to date when I amend the folders or add new podcasts.
  This is the antithesis of ‘smart’!
  It seems insane that folders have been added but serve no useful function apart from visual de-cluttering.
  An even smarter approach would be to use tags instead of folder so a podcast can have multiple tags. Eg ‘favourite’ and ‘ science’.
  Ps. Should the multiple threads requesting this be merged?

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  mikerockwell · Staff · February 15, 2026 at 1:18 pm

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  @happygun We don’t have anything to share on this specific feature at the moment, but our development team has recently been looking into improvements to the Smart Rules feature set. I can’t confirm whether there will be a rule for podcasts in a specific folder, but hopefully our development team will have more to share on that front soon.