📂 Creating a Single-Level Category – Docs

By default, HelpKit organizes your content in categories → sub-collections → articles.

You can learn more about our article hierarchy structure here.

But what if you don’t need that extra level and just want your articles to appear directly under a category?

Good news: HelpKit supports single-level collections (categories without sub-collections) as the menu depth for navigation.

Why Use This Layout?

✅ Simpler navigation when you don’t have many articles.

✅ Cleaner design – articles show right under the category name.

✅ Perfect for “Overview” or “Start Here” sections where no extra nesting is needed.

How to Set It Up

In your Notion database, create your main category as usual.

Add a sub-collection, but leave its title as either:

Untitled (gray text in Notion) → easiest way is to simply select the entire database title and hit backspace on your keyboard to remove the title

or you can rename the database title to: no_sub_collection_name

Add your articles underneath this sub-collection.

That’s it! 🎉

HelpKit will detect this special naming and automatically flatten the hierarchy so that your articles appear directly under the main category.

Quick Video Tutorial

📽 HelpKit Note: Self-uploaded videos are supported on the HelpKit Professional plan. Please upgrade or use a third party video provider such as Youtube, Wistia or Vimeo.

Example of One Level HelpKit Category

Instead of showing:

Overview

Introduction

Article 1

Article 2

You’ll now get:

Overview

Article 1

Article 2

Notes

This only works for one level of hierarchy.

If you later add a proper sub-collection name, HelpKit will switch back to the default layout.