# Organizing subscribers via segments
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [October 17, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610 "2020-10-17T06:23:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@rotorfido](https://forum.mautic.org/u/rotorfido)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/1 "2020-10-17T06:23:01Z")
I use segment for each of my website…but under user you cant sort the users or display users from only specific segment…why is not there a column to show which segment do they belong?
And how to export users only from specific segment?
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### Author:  [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/2 "2020-10-17T06:35:13Z")
You can create a segment membership report and export from there.
Also: in pref center you can see the membership for 1 contact:
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### Author:  [@rotorfido](https://forum.mautic.org/u/rotorfido)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/3 "2020-10-17T06:54:38Z")
where exactly do you do that ? membership report
If I click on specific segment all users are listed there…but i cant export from there…
this is a must…right now I have checked exported excel file and there is no mention of any segment…
why mautic does not do that?
and will I be able to import my list into specific segment ?
it is so simple to add column where the contacts are listed…or filters when you export…I have no clue why Mautic ignores that…
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### Author:  [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/4 "2020-10-17T07:20:19Z")
In my opinion it is never good to import into a segment. I usually add a tag, that qualifies a person for a segment membership. It’s just easier to deal with this later if you use this system.
For segment membership report do this:
Reports - Data source: Segment membership
Choose the following columns:
Contact ID, Email (and whatever you want)
Filter: segment (choose the segment)
Run the report, and export in the format you like.
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### Author:  [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/5 "2020-10-17T07:21:53Z")
Regarding import, you can add the tag ‘vegan’ to your import (right upper corner).
Import all the contacts.
Than make a segment where members should have that tag.
Voila.
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### Author:  [@rotorfido](https://forum.mautic.org/u/rotorfido)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/6 "2020-10-17T07:31:16Z")
OK I will need to import 10000k list so I dont want to make any mistake
in import I should select same tag as the segment name and it will be imported into that segment or I need to make an action to add it to that segment?
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### Author:  [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/7 "2020-10-17T07:38:13Z")
How many segments you will have?
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### Author:  [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/8 "2020-10-17T07:42:33Z")
There are many videos about this, here is one:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-9lhRPjZo)
If you have many segments, you might want to use custom fields instead of tags. Tags can be assigned 1x / whole import. Custom fields can be assigned 1 by 1
If you mess up, you can delete all any time.
Make sure you enable background processing for a 10k import.
Set up the proper cron as well.
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### Author:  [@rotorfido](https://forum.mautic.org/u/rotorfido)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/organizing-subscribers-via-segments/16610/9 "2020-10-17T12:40:45Z")
i see, thank you
but how to do it with custom fields?