Organizing with tags

Faved organizes bookmarks with a flexible tagging system inspired by Gmail and the Bear notes app — a more powerful alternative to a flat mix of collections and tags. A bookmark can carry as many tags as you like, and tags can be nested into hierarchies.

Creating and nesting tags

You create tags right where you use them — while adding a new bookmark or editing an existing one. Type a tag that doesn't exist yet and Faved adds it, and a single bookmark can carry as many tags as you like.

Nest a tag under a parent in either of two ways:

• While creating it, append / to the parent tag — for example, typing Programming Languages/Backend/Go builds the whole chain at once. Adding Python the same way places it alongside Go under Backend.
• Anytime after, edit the tag and choose its parent from the dedicated parent picker.

Rollups

Nested tags support rollups: a parent tag's view includes the bookmarks of all its child tags, so you can browse a whole branch at once or drill down into a single child. In the example above, opening Programming Languages/Backend shows everything tagged Go or Python too. Rollup is optional, so you can turn it off when you want a parent tag to show only its own directly tagged items.

Pinning important tags

Pin the tags you reach for most to keep them at the top of the sidebar for quick access. Nested tags can be pinned just like top-level ones.

Styling tags

Give a tag a color to make it stand out and to spot it instantly across the sidebar and your bookmark list. Pairing colors with your hierarchy — for example, one color per top-level branch — makes large collections far easier to scan at a glance.

Tag descriptions

Add a description to any tag to give it extra context. Descriptions appear in tooltips throughout the interface, which is handy when tag names alone aren't self-explanatory.

Finding tags fast

In large collections the sidebar does the heavy lifting:

• Search and filter tags instantly from the sidebar to jump straight to the one you need.
• See an item count next to each tag at a glance.
• Fold nested tags to collapse branches you're not using and focus on what matters.
• Resize the sidebar by dragging its edge on desktop — Faved remembers your preferred width.

Deleting tags

You can delete a tag whenever you no longer need it.