# Tags vs Links **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [January 5, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tags-vs-links/11024 "2021-01-05T22:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![macedotavares](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/macedotavares/32/139_2.png) [@macedotavares](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/macedotavares)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tags-vs-links/11024/2 "2021-01-08T23:47:04Z")
## 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 deserve its own page [[XYZ]], as well as [[PersonA]] and [[PersonB]]. Inside [[XYZ]] you could collect information about that topic and add wikilinks to related notes; on the other hand, the notes [[PersonA]] and [[PersonB]] could be **tagged** with `#person`. ## Backlinks Backlinks tell which pages link to the one you’re viewing. So, if you create a link to [[Meeting with John]] in your daily note 2021-01-09, when you visit that page you’ll see 2021-01-09 in the Backlinks pane. Hope this helps. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/tags-vs-links/11024)._