How you can manage your icon library with Myscout

Varun Trivedi
Myscout
Published in
4 min readApr 25, 2019

You can create a central library of all your icons to access faster when you need in the Myscout. For your reference, we have created a demo project ‘UI Icon Library’ with Google Materials and Unicons in your Myscout account. These icons are open-source so you can directly use them in your project for free without giving credit to the author.

With a demo project take a look at some exciting features of Myscout.

All of your icons in one place

Junk data in your system space, Redownload same icons and unorganized your icon library, Did you really tired of all this?

We hear you, Now create your icon library in Myscout and get instant access with Myscout plugins.

We can say, No Junk Data, No Redownload, No unstructured data.

Structured storage system

We’re working on many projects. And each project has a different style and categories of icons. We obviously need good structure system to organize them, Right?

So, You can separate the icons in project, Style, and categories by creating infinite numbers of the folder like the same way we created for ‘Google Material Icons’ in Demo project. And the best part is you can search in each folder.

Easy to search

It is now very easy to search for any specific icon from your ever-growing icon library. Stop wasting your time in going through all the folders, with our powerful search, type the icon name and get the correct icon in a jiffy. You can put your icons in a structured folder manner as stated above, but when it comes to finding the right icon, you just need to type the name of the icon and Myscout will display all the icons with that name.

Easy access via Plugin

It is not easy to access if you need to switch to another tool and then perform the search, download and insert to get just some icons.

If another app takes 5 minutes, we can make it in 1 min. Get instant access of all your icons within the tool through Myscout plugin. We’ve got a plugin for Sketch, Adobe Tools (Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign), Microsoft Office (Word & PowerPoint), Gsuite(Docs & Slides). Plugin for Adobe XD and InVision Studio are coming soon.

So now, just upload your icons in Myscout, and access them via plugin inside your tool. You don’t have to switch to another tool or leave work window to get an icon, Simply open the plugin and insert it. That’s it.

Automatic file conversion

What if you designed icons in Sketch and Your friend need PNGs to insert in some documentation? You definitely need to export them. right?

So here in Myscout, You don’t need to do that at all. Just Upload the icons in vector format (SVG, AI or EPS) and we’ll take care of converting to PNG, JPEG, and PDF.

All icons in Demo project are uploaded as SVG file format, but you can get these icons in Docs, Slides, Word, and powerpoint with Myscout’s automatic file conversion feature.

Private and Public sharing

“Sharing is caring” we all heard this famous quote and believe in this.

So here in Myscout, You can share your icon library with your friend, workmate, client and teammate. We designed sharing functionality at such a way that you can control the Permission like ‘View only’ and ‘Can Edit’.

The person who has ‘’Can edit” permission can Upload, Delete, share and rename operation inside your share library Which is not permitted in “View only” permission. “View Only” only can download the icons you shared.

Try out Myscout for free

Organize, Manage and share your design assets with Myscout. Start using Myscout for Free and super fast your workflow.

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Varun Trivedi
Myscout

Co-Founder and Marketing Head at Chamestudio Pvt Ltd. Content Head at @iconscout.