Does anyone actually go back and watch their saved TikToks or is it just a graveyard for everyone?

I have 600+ saved TikToks and I genuinely cannot find anything in there. There's no search, no folders, no way to filter by topic. I saved a video about fermentation techniques last month and spent 20 minutes scrolling to find it before giving up.

The thing that bugs me most is TikTok knows what the video is about (their algorithm is clearly reading every word) but they don't let you search your own saves which is kinda ridiculous.

I ended up pulling my saves into a separate tool (instavault, which also grabs my Reddit and Instagram saves) just so I could actually search across everything. Not a perfect fix since you have to import manually, but at least I can type "fermentation" and find it in 2 seconds.

The better tip though: start using TikTok Collections if you haven't. You can organize saves into named collections inside the app itself. It's buried under your profile > saved videos > the little folder icon at the top right. Not perfect but it's the closest thing to folders we have natively.

Curious whether anyone else has a system for this or if most people just accept that saves are basically a wishlist you never revisit. Do you actually go back to your saved videos or is it more of a reflex at this point?

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wouldliker_sounddata10 days ago1

I save stuff with the confidence of a librarian and revisit it with the discipline of a raccoon.