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title: "Tags"
description: "Tag files from Explore so you can filter and group them across folders. Tags apply to a whole selection, and the box replaces whatever is already there."
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# Tags

A tag is a label you attach to a file so you can find it later. Unlike a
[folder](/help/folders/manage/), a file can carry as many tags as you want, which makes tags the
right place for themes that cut across projects.

Tags are applied to a selection of files from **Explore**. There is no per-file tag box: the Edit
panel on a single file covers its name and description only.

![The bulk edit dialog for three selected files. A comma-separated Tags box warns that what you type replaces the existing tags on every selected file, a Category box sits below it, and an Apply button commits the change to all three.](/help/media/folders/folders-tags.jpg)

## Tag files

1. Open **Explore** and select the **Media** tab.
1. Tick the checkbox next to each file you want to tag. To take everything at once, use the
   **Select all media** checkbox in the header row.
1. Click **Edit selected**. A window titled **Edit 3 files** opens, counting whatever you picked.
1. In **Tags (comma-separated)**, type the tags separated by commas, for example
   `interview, q3, churn`.
1. Click **Apply**.

**Category** sits in the same window and is optional. Leave a box empty to leave that value alone.
If both boxes are empty, Speak AI tells you there are no changes to apply and nothing is sent.

## Change or remove tags

The Tags box **replaces** what is already on the selected files rather than adding to it. The
window says so under the box: "Tags will replace existing tags on all selected files."

That has two consequences worth knowing before you apply anything:

- To drop one tag, retype the tags you want to keep and apply that list. The tags you leave out are
  gone.
- Clearing the box does not clear the tags. An empty box counts as "no change", so the field is
  skipped entirely. There is no way to strip every tag from a file in one pass today.

Because tagging replaces rather than merges, select narrowly. Applying `q3` to everything in a
folder overwrites the tags each of those files already carried.

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Related: [Folders](/help/folders/) · [Manage folders](/help/folders/manage/)

Source: https://docs.speakai.co/help/folders/tags/index.mdx