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Save articles with Tags in Litmaps

Tags are essential to keeping your research organized. Here's how to save articles you find in Litmaps using Tags.

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Written by Marina Kisley
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Litmaps makes it easy to keep track of papers you like and stay organized by using Tags.


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How to save papers in Litmaps with Tags

Use Tags in Litmaps to stay organized and keep track of your research. You can label Tags based on different sub-topics, authors, article types, etc. to keep track of the articles you find more easily. Tags are accessible anywhere in the application, and can also be exported and synced to your reference manager.

To save a paper to a Tag:

  1. Open up an article in Litmaps

  2. Click

  3. Add to an existing Tag or make a new one by clicking "New Tag". An article can have as many Tags as you like.

  4. All done, your paper is tagged! Access your Tags in the left sidebar anytime

How to change a Tag's name

To change the name a Tag:

  1. Click your Tag on the left side-bar

  2. Click on the Tag's name text at the top

  3. Change the text

  4. Hit Enter

You can also change a Tag's name by going to the Tag settings at the top right (the three dot option) and clicking "Rename".

How to delete a Tag

To delete a Tag (and those papers saved to it):

  1. Click your Tag on the left side-bar

  2. Click on the three-dot option at the top right

  3. Click "Delete"

How to remove an article from a Tag

To remove an article from a Tag:

  1. Click your Tag on the left side-bar

  2. Select the article(s) you'd like to remove

  3. Click on the three dot option at the top right

  4. Click "Remove from Tag"

How to change a Tag's color

Customize the colors of your Tags to make your visual Litmap easier to understand. For example, you can use different colors for various sub-topics. You can vary the shade of articles based on another criteria.

To change the color of a Tag:

  1. Click your Tag on the left side-bar

  2. Click on colored icon next to the Tag name

  3. Change the color

How to copy a Tag to another Workspace

You can move Tags between Workspaces by copying them.

Go here to see how to move a Tag to a different Workspace.

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