A little remark to lists in Calvin first: lists have the file extension CPL and do only contain a composition of different profiles which should be loaded at once when you chose the list. The sorting will be kept, which offers the possibility to switch between different profile collections to and fro with a few mouse clicks. This is important e.g. when you use duplex, triplex or quadruplex simulations with Calvin (see tutorial).
The popup menu allows to load one or more lists or to merge them to the current list (this means all profiles being loaded at this moment and being visible in the function panel). You can chose to save the current profiles as a list, too.
By the way: lists are simple ASCII files and can be edited with each text editor because they do only contain a list of profile file names, in exactly the sorting (top down) in which they should be loaded when the list is loaded.