Luckily, you can avoid these issues by establishing a system. It’s easy to spend fifteen extra minutes adding a ton of tags every time you save a new file-and it’s also easy to create so many different tags that you completely forget which ones you’ve used. Of course, the flexibility and unlimited nature of tags can be dangerous. They're perhaps your most flexible tool for organizing your files. Tags are the simplest way to add data to files without dealing with endless layers of folders. You could tag the document with both the project’s name and the client’s name, then save the file just in the project's folder. Tags, on the other hand, are perfect for adding category data like this, since you can add as many tags as you want to a file. With folders, you'd have to pick one folder or duplicate the file, which could cause issues. Say you've made a project brief for a client and you want to save it in the specific project folder and to the client’s main folder. Think of them like characteristics for a person: Just like you’d describe someone as 'tall,' 'funny,' 'brunette,' and so on, you’d tag a file 'important,' 'tax info,' 'just for fun,' or 'work.'īut why use tags, when you could just use folders?Ī file can only be in one folder at a time-but it could have an unlimited number of tags. Tags are perhaps the most flexible tools for organizing your files

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