Using content tags to group related articles

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Content tags group articles and community posts across sections. Different from labels, and worth keeping separate.

Tag something

  1. Open the article or post.
  2. Add a content tag, or pick an existing one.
  3. Save.

Readers can then follow the tag to everything carrying it, wherever it lives.

How they differ from labels

Labels feed search and are largely invisible. Content tags are a navigable grouping a reader can click and browse.

So labels can be generous and slightly messy. Content tags cannot: each one becomes a page somebody might land on.

Reuse before you create

The list of tags is shared, and picking from it takes one keystroke more than typing a new one. That keystroke is the difference between a working set of tags and forty near-duplicates.

Tag the subject, not the state

"Billing" and "Installation" are subjects a reader might browse. "Reviewed", "Draft" and "Q3" are internal states, and a reader who lands on a page called Q3 learns nothing.

A tag with two articles is not a tag

Grouping exists to give somebody more than they had. Where a tag holds one or two items, either it should be broader or the content should simply be linked.

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