# How do you use tags?

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**Tags:** tags\
**Created:** [August 25, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-do-you-use-tags/23172 "2021-08-25T22:45:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-do-you-use-tags/23172/3 "2021-08-26T09:35:03Z")

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Hi, @haosmark .

I’ll direct you to another post with my thoughts on this:

> [@Tags vs Links](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tags-vs-links/11024/2):
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> Tags vs. Pages After a lot of experimenting, I’ve settled the issue like this: Tags are meta-information about the content, they tell me what kind of note it is, or what its status is, or what context it belongs to, not what it’s about. #article, #recipe, #person, #book, #meeting, etc. [[pages]] are for entities, or subjects. [[Digital Physics]], [[New Orleans Shrimp]], [[Ted Nelson]], [[A Clockwork Orange]], [[January Board Meeting]], etc. Using your example, topic XYZ would probably deserv…

For a **very** long discussion, please see:

> [@Tags vs page/link](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tags-vs-page-link/193):
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> The decision of using a new page link or a tag slows me down frequently. How do you use them differentially?? I am worried about a very long tag list.

Cheers.

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