Blender hides a handy operator in the M menu: Move to Collection ▸ New Collection
creates a collection and moves your selection in. But that’s not where your hand
goes. You select a few objects, reach for the Outliner’s New Collection button —
and it ignores your selection, handing you an empty collection with your objects
still loose. So you drag them in one by one, or go digging for the M-menu entry.
This addon adds a New Collection with Selection command to the Outliner right
click menu and the viewport’s Object > Collection menu — the same create-and-move you’d get from the M menu, surfaced where you actually click. One click: a new collection appears, nested under the active collection, with your selected objects
already inside it. It’s a true move (no duplicate links) and fully undoable.
Free download: https://kleer001.github.io/funkworks/auto_add_to_collection
Works on Blender 4.0+. No setup — install, enable, right-click.
More free tools at https://github.com/kleer001/funkworks
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