Organizing With Tags (2024)

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    • Tumblr-wide
    • In-blog
  • Tags in URLs
  • Using Pages to Organize Tags

Tagging your posts is a great way to show your content to the communities that you want to reach, but they are also a great tool to organize, collect, and display your posts using in-blog tag pages.

Tag Pages

Tumblr-wide

A tag page is a dashboard-style view of the posts with a given tag.

You can bookmark a tag page by following it, making it easier to go back to it later. Following a tag will also inject some posts from that tag into your dashboard, but you can disable this with the Include followed tag posts toggle in your dashboard settings.

There are a few ways to get to a tag page:

  • Click the tag on your dashboard.
  • Add the tag name to the end of tumblr.com/tagged in your browser’s address bar.
  • Start typing the tag, and click the suggestion Go to #___.
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Are your original posts not showing up in recent results? Check our article about Appearing In Search Results.

In-Blog

Clicking (or tapping) a tag on your own blog will lead you to your in-blog tag page for that tag.

You can also link to the posts with a tag, by adding /tagged/tag to your blog’s URL. For example:

http://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/features
http://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/events

These links will only show the 200 most recent posts with that tag in reverse chronological order (latest posts on top).

To display posts in chronological order (older posts on top), add /chrono to the end of the tag URL (i.e. http://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/features/chrono).

Some themes won’t show tags, but they will still appear in the dashboard and be searchable across Tumblr (unless you’ve hidden it from search results).

For some characters to work properly in URLs, they need special handling. For example, if your tag has multiple words, your links should have %20 instead of the space. If your tag has a + sign, you’ll need to use %2B instead. Here are some examples of what these would look like:

Your tagHow the URL will look
tumblr tuesdayyourblog.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr%20tuesday
tumblr-tuesdayyourblog.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday
tumblr+tuesdayyourblog.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr%2Btuesday
tumblr_tuesdayyourblog.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr_tuesday

For this reason, in October 2021, we’ve announced a new toggle to substantially improve the accuracy of those results. If you’re having trouble with your URLs not working properly, try toggling the Use better tagged and search URL decoding option from your blog customize menu (remember to hit Save after toggling it on):

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Using that toggle does not require changes to the tags on your posts (past or future ones). It will only change the URLs of your tag pages, so keep this in mind if you have a master list of your blog’s tag pages.

With that toggle disabled, a blog’s tagged URL like https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday would turn tumblr-tuesday into tumblr tuesday, and you’d see posts with that tag (same with search URLs).

If you have that toggle enabled, that https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday URL will be decoded as tumblr-tuesday instead. If you want to link to the tumblr tuesday tag on your blog, you’ll have to use tumblr%20tuesday in the URL. This means that if you use certain special characters in your tags, you’ll now properly be able to link to them.

Using Pages to Organize With Tags

You can create Link Pages to offer show links to posts with specific tags within your blog.

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  1. Click Add a page at the bottom of the sidebar on the Pages section of your blog customize menu.
  2. Select Link from the dropdown menu, but note that in order to prevent spam and if your account is new, you won’t see this option. This feature will be unlocked after you perform a few actions like customizing your blog and liking posts.
  3. In the Link to field, add the URL for the specific tagged posts you want to link to. Add /tagged/mytag to the end of your blog URL, replacing mytag with the tag you want to use. For tags with multiple words, use %20 between each word (i.e., /tagged/bubble%20tea).
  4. Choose a name for your new page in the Page title field.
  5. Click Save.

To learn more about pages, see our Blog Pages article.

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FAQs

How do you use tags effectively? ›

Don't try to choose hashtags that are too clever or obscure. If you choose a tag that no one is going to search for, it won't benefit your marketing as it won't be found! Use hashtags that are detailed and specific as this will lead to better results than broad or general ones.

How do I organize files with tags? ›

A file tagging system will help you organize and find files faster.
  1. Choose a home base for your files.
  2. Brainstorm your tags and clean them up.
  3. Create a tag (and folder) hierarchy.
  4. Build automation into your folders and files.
  5. Create your tags and go through a test run.
  6. Revisit your tags and adjust.
Jun 5, 2023

How to organize tags on AO3? ›

Drag & Drop Ordering. On AO3, the order you're adding tags (fandoms, characters, relationships, additional tags) to your work determines the order they show up on your work once you save it. If you think of a tag late and want this to be the first tag, you'd have to delete and re-add all tags. No more!

How to organize tags in obsidian? ›

What are your preferred ways to organize tags if you have hundreds of them? I find alphabetically is the most straightforward. If your vault cover distinct areas, such as household, physics research, literature, a two tier nested tag system seems to be better.

What is the tag strategy? ›

Leave a reply.

What is the tag writing method? ›

TAG stands for title, author, genre. The second sentence of the essay should be more specific than the first. It should state the information about the literature that will be discussed in the essay.

Are tags better than folders? ›

Tagging permits a many-to-many mapping (i.e., many tags to many documents), whereas folders permit only a one-to-many mapping (i.e., one folder can contain several documents). If a document is about both “apples” and “oranges” it can be tagged by both and accessed again later by either.

How do you manage tags in things? ›

After assigning the shortcut, you can add or remove a tag from a to-do by pressing Ctrl + shortcut, or filter a list by pressing Ctrl ⌥ Opt + shortcut. Give often-used tags a custom shortcut. You can then quickly tag single or multiple to-dos via the custom shortcut (in this example, ^ Ctrl i ), or filter a list.

What is AO3 slang for? ›

Also, don't forget AO3! Otherwise known as the Archive Of Our Own, a massive fan-created multifandom archive alternative that is well worth checking out!

What is the most used tag on AO3? ›

[Data] The 100 most popular tags on AO3
  • Alternate Universe - 827100.
  • Fluff - 808281.
  • Angst - 640842.
  • Sexual Content - 550852.
  • Relationship(s) - 417439.
  • Sex - 397615.
  • Hurt/Comfort - 279388.
  • Romance - 271616.
Jun 24, 2022

How many tags should I use on AO3? ›

the average number of tags per work is 17, the most common number of tags per work is 11, and. less than 0.5% of works have more than 75 tags.

What are nested tags? ›

Nested tags are tags that are organized as sub-tags under a main tag. With nested tags, there is a main tag and one or more sub-tags. For example, a main tag "Travel" might have multiple sub-tags "Chicago," "New York," and "San Francisco."

What is the point of tags in Obsidian? ›

Tags - Obsidian Help. Tags are keywords or topics that help you quickly find the notes you want.

What is the difference between links and tags in Obsidian? ›

Links are connections from one Obsidian note to another note. And as I mentioned earlier, they're bi-directional so the notes are both linked together with a backlink. Tags are connections from a note to an idea. A tag is a link but it has no note linked to it.

How do you use #tags? ›

To hashtag, simply use the # symbol and type words or phrases that relate to your post. You can't use spaces and, on the majority of social media sites, you can't use special characters such as $, !, &, *, and +. It is more beneficial to use popular and trending hashtags than it is to use unique ones.

How do you make tags in practice better? ›

Creating Tags
  1. To create a tag, go to your My Clients page.
  2. Click the Create Tag button in the left navigation bar or from the Fast Action Button in the bottom-right corner of your screen:
  3. Enter a name, select a color and click Create:
Feb 24, 2024

What is the use of tags and how they are useful? ›

In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching.

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