Do You Know #tags (Hashtags)?

Tags are best known from the social platform, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and it is a way to organise things into groups of things that relate. 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 all your cats or only the kittens by these tags.

This is just an example, but tags can be used for, much-much more...
The easiest is just to enter all the things you can see in the puzzle image, and there will 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 re-using 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 use backspace and delete to remove unwanted tags, as shown above where I misspelt "kiten". 

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

Note, that the tags are underlined, which generally means, you can see related puzzles. In this case, clicking/tapping on an underlined tag will take you to all puzzles with this tag. This is useful if you want 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 are looking for inspiration, you can 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 that this article will inspire 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.