Catalogue a 7-inch collection

You cannot browse 7-inch spines the way you browse LPs. A box of plain sleeves is a stack of paper until you have artist and title written down. Search is how you find a single without lifting every one.

Picture sleeves deserve a photo of the copy you own. Plain sleeves need the A-side written clearly, and the B-side in the track list or the note, because the B-side is the reason you kept a lot of them.

Keep the singles on the same shelf as the albums. A separate mental pile is how a 7-inch disappears from 'do I own it?' and gets bought again at a fair.

Use the artist on the label, not the album the song later appeared on. A note can mention that album if you want the link. Filing everything under a famous LP title makes the single impossible to find when all you remember is the A-side.

Each single counts as a record on the shelf. A free account holds 100 records, singles included. If the box is larger than that, the rest of the box needs Pro, at £1.99 a month, rather than a second unofficial list.

Add each single by search, barcode, or by hand. Pick the pressing that matches the label. Upload a photo when the picture sleeve is the thing you would recognise.

The wishlist is for the singles you are still hunting. Do not add a 7-inch you do not own, or the shelf stops being an inventory.