Tags

This page covers tags: what they are for, the three ways to add them, and quick capture tags for one-handed tagging in the field.

What tags are for

Tags are labels that make media findable later. Mark a stain as "pre-existing", a label plate as "serial", a code on a box as "barcode". When your office (or you, weeks later) needs every shot of a serial number across the whole job, the tag finds them in one search instead of an afternoon of scrolling.

Tags attach to individual media and to whole groups.

Adding tags

Three doors, same room:

1. In the viewer: open the item and tap Tag. See Reviewing your media.
2. On the Details screen: scroll to Tags and tap Add tag.
3. On a group: open the group's ⋯ menu and tap Add tag to label the whole item at once.

The tag sheet

However you open it, the tag sheet works the same way:

1. Type into the New tag… field and tap Add to create a tag.
2. Or tap a suggestion chip to apply a tag already in use.
3. Applied tags show a checkmark.
4. The sheet stays open, so you can stack several tags on one item without reopening it. Tap Done when finished.

Two quiet rules make tags reliable:

• Tags normalize to lowercase with single spaces, so "Serial", "SERIAL", and " serial " are all the same tag.
• Any tag used once on an assignment becomes a suggestion everywhere on that assignment. The job builds its own vocabulary as you work, and the most-used tags surface first.

Quick capture tags

This is the field shortcut. Set it up once, tag with one hand forever:

1. Open Settings and find Quick capture tags. See Settings.
2. Add chips for the labels you reach for all day: "barcode", "serial", "pre-existing".
3. Open the camera. Your chips appear above the mode tabs.
4. Tap a chip to arm it (it turns orange). Every photo and video you capture is tagged automatically.
5. Tap the chip again to disarm when you move on to something else.

TIP

Walking a kitchen full of damaged appliances? Arm "serial", shoot every plate, disarm. Dozens of tagged photos, zero menus.