Bulk-Managing Tags in the Tag Manager

The Tag Manager in Guru is an essential tool for organizing and maintaining your workspace’s tags. This guide walks you through how to merge, delete, categorize, and manage tags—plus build a tag strategy that scales with your team.

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Access Required

You must be a workspace Admin and either a Collection Owner or Author to manage tags in Guru.

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Best Practices

See Best Practices: Tags

Merging tags

Combine duplicate or similar tags into a single Primary Tag to streamline your tag structure.

  1. Go to Settings > Tag Management in the Guru web app.
  2. In the Tags pane, select the tag you want to keep (the “Primary Tag”).
  3. Click Merge with other tags.
  4. Drag tags to be merged into the “Primary Tag” drop area.
  5. Click Merge tags.
  6. Confirm the merge by clicking Delete to remove the duplicate tags and update impacted Cards.

Merging tags screenshot


Deleting tags

Remove tags that are no longer relevant or needed.

  1. Go to Settings > Tag Management.
  2. Select the tag you wish to delete.
  3. Click Delete tag and confirm the number of impacted Cards.

Managing tag categories

Group related tags under categories to maintain a scalable, intuitive tag structure.

Creating a tag category

  1. Go to Settings > Tag Management.
  2. In the Create new tag category field, enter a name and press Enter.

Adding a tag to a category

  • Drag and drop an existing tag into the desired category.
  • Or, create a new tag within a category by typing in the field and pressing Enter.

Editing a tag’s category

  • Drag the tag to a new category.
  • Or, click the tag to open Tag Settings and reassign its category.

Deleting a tag category

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Deleting a tag category will remove all tags within it from any Cards where they are applied.

  1. In Tag Management, find the category to delete.
  2. Hover over the category name and click the trash can icon.

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Tip

To quickly delete multiple tags, group them into a category first, then delete the category.