My documents is your own library: the documents you have created, organised however suits you. It is the first row under Spaces in the Explorer sidebar, a top-level folder with everything of yours beneath it. Each team you belong to sits beside it as a space of its own (Team spaces).
A document lives in exactly one place: My documents, a team, or this browser. Moving it changes where it lives. Everything else in the sidebar, Home, Inbox, Timeline and Shared with me, is a view that gathers documents from wherever they live.
The root of My documents
Opening My documents lists its folders first, then every document you have not filed into a folder, newest first. A freshly created document lands there, unless you chose a place for it or set a default folder, so it always has an obvious home without you deciding anything first.
Documents an AI tool made for you sit there too, like any other, and carry a Made by AI badge. To see only those, wherever they are filed, use the Made by AI filter (Search and filter documents).
Filing a document into a folder of your own moves it out of the root; moving it back to My documents puts it there again.
Documents saved only in this browser (Offline Mode) are yours too, but they live in this browser rather than in My documents: they collect under This browser, in the sidebar's More group, which shows while there is at least one (one you file into one of your folders is listed there too). Wherever one is listed, a Local only pill marks it, because clearing this browser's site data deletes it.
Favourites
Choose Favourite in the menu of any document of yours or your team's to star it. It's the answer to a busy team library: a shared folder fills up with documents that aren't all yours to care about, and starring the handful that are marks them with an amber star wherever they are listed. The same menu reads Unfavourite to take it back off. Your starred documents are gathered at /explorer/favourites, from your own folders and every team you're in, each row showing where the document actually lives. Favourites has no sidebar row, so bookmark that address if you use it often.
Starring is yours alone. Favouriting a document in a team folder doesn't favourite it for your teammates, and there's no limit on how many you keep.
Folders
Folders give your library structure without forcing it. Every document is in exactly one folder, or none, and folders can nest, so you can build something like "Projects / Customer / Engagement" when you want that depth, or keep everything flat at the root when you do not.
Create a folder with Create, then New Folder, at the top of the page (on My documents it adds one at the top level). Each folder's own menu offers New Subfolder for deeper levels.
Move a document with its Change Folder menu item, which opens the same destination browser as the New Document wizard's Location step. You can also drag a document straight onto a folder, on the Explorer page or in the editor's Explorer panel.
Deleting a folder is safe for its contents (you confirm first): the documents and subfolders inside move up into the folder it sat in (or to the root of My documents for a top-level folder), so nothing is ever lost when you tidy up. You can also make a folder the default for new whiteboards, retrospectives and more. See Folders for the details.
Two places to browse
You will meet My documents in two forms: the full-page Explorer, modelled on a desktop file browser, and the compact Explorer panel behind the editor's menu button for finding a document mid-task, where My documents opens in place to its folders and documents. Both work whether or not you are signed in: a guest sees the documents and folders their own browser owns, and can sign in later to carry that work into an account.
Do not over-organise on day one. Start at the root, and pull documents into folders once a real grouping emerges. Folders are easy to add and rearrange whenever you need them.
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