Do You Know #tags (Hashtags)?

Tags are best known from the social platforms, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and it's a way to organise things into groups of things that relate to each other. They are single words preceded by the character #. 

For example, if you like puzzles with animals, but would like to subdivide the pre-set Animal category into more detailed sub-groups, you could use the tag cat to denote all your puzzles with cats in them but, if you also have lots of different cats, you could give the ones with kittens in them both the cat and the kitten tags, and then you would be able to find both of all your cats, or only the kittens by these tags.

This is just one example, but tags can be used for much, much more... The easiest is to enter all of the things you can see in the puzzle image, and there are bound to be existing tags for lots of the items already.

You can assign tags to a puzzle when you add it or edit the puzzle. The relevant part of the form looks like this:

To do this, start by writing the tag you would like to use and keep an eye on the list of suggestions that pop up. Tags that only denote one single puzzle have no real value, so reusing the tags already in IPDb makes the concept stronger.

Note: You should not write the # character, but only the TAG WORD itself. The # character is added automatically to signal that this is a tag.

Once you have written the full tag text or chosen it from the list, press Enter or Space, and the form will look like this:

The text has been converted to a proper tag, and then you can continue to add as many as you like.

If you misspell, you can click/tap the X to remove unwanted tags, as shown above where I misspelt 'kiten', for example. 

When looking at a puzzle, the tags are displayed in the dialogue just under the categories.

Note: The tags are followed by a small icon, which means that you can see related puzzles. In this case, clicking/tapping on the icon will take you to all puzzles with this tag. This is useful if you wish to find puzzles similar to a puzzle which you like.

Above, I asked to see all puzzles with the tag #Kimono.

You can search for puzzles with a certain tag from the search form. 
The relevant part of the form looks like this:

The way to input what you are searching for is the same as above, and once you click/tap search, you will find all the puzzles with the combination of tags that you are searching for.

If you're looking for inspiration, please visit the most popular tags from the burger menu (3-line icon) in the top left-hand corner of the App screen.

Clicking/tapping the 'Popular Tags' will display the most often used tags in IPDb.

Pressing any of the popular tags will display all puzzles with this tag.

We hope this article inspires you to start using tags. By adding tags to puzzles, we can make the information more valuable to all IPDb users, as it allows you to search and find new puzzles differently.