The tab Favourites is meant for storing session
elements that you would like to re-use in new sessions, such as actor, language elements, location etc. Session elements that can be saved in
Favourites are: IMDI sessions (), actors,
content elements etc). If you have a number of elements in your Favourite List and you are
not certain what the content of a given element is, you can always place the cursor over it
and wait for the tool tip (information window) to appear.
In order to add an element from the local corpus to the Favourites List, right click its node and choose Add to Favourites List. The element now appears in the Favourites List. You can also just drag them from the corpus tree structure, right down to the Favourites List. If this element is needed again, you can place it into a preferable location in your Local Corpus either by dragging it from the Favourites list or Copy/Paste it in one of the Local Corpus (sub)branches.
Once you have completed your Favourites list, you can start using it. Let's say you want to add a particular Actor to a session - in order to do this choose the session in question, right click it and choose Favourites, Add from Favourites and click on the right actor. You can also do this by "drag and drop".
Note that the items in the Favourite List can be viewed and edited in the same way as the elements of the Local Corpus (right click and View/Edit Selected). This means that if you make changes to your favourites you have to right click on them and select Save Changes to Disk to make them permanent (or use Ctrl/cmd+S). The favourites which have been edited turn in blue which indicates this element still has to be saved locally.