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August 26, 2008

All about tags in Backpack

A tag is a simple label or keyword you can use to categorize your Backpack pages any way you want. Then when you click a tag you can see all the other pages that have that tag. It’s a great way to keep your pages loosely grouped in ways that make sense to you.

For example, if you have a page called “Sales meetings” you might want to tag that page “business, meeting, sales, office” or whatever you feel best describes this page. Here's a walkthrough on how to add and use tags in Backpack:

To add a tag, click the "Tags" link at the top of the page you want to tag.

add tags

Then add your tags and click the "Add these tags" button. Separate each tag with a space and use quotes for tags with more than one word ("new business").

tags on a page

Once you've tagged a page (you can add as many tags as you want to a page), you'll see the tags at the top of the page.

tags on a page

Clicking a tag will show all the other pages with that tag. Or, you can click the "My Pages" link in your sidebar. On that page you'll see a list of all the tags you've created.

tags on my pages

Click a tag and you'll see the list of pages that match that tag.