# Should it be more obvious that tags are tags?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [05.Март.2019 16:59:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-more-obvious-that-tags-are-tags/110759 "2019-03-05T16:59:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomtjes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tomtjes/32/131271_2.png) [@tomtjes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomtjes)\
**Post date:** [05.Март.2019 21:16:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-more-obvious-that-tags-are-tags/110759/9 "2019-03-05T21:16:19Z")

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> [@bts](#):
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> May be slightly confusing that in the composer `#` works as convention for referencing both tags and categories.

That has definitely confused me and I don’t think it’s intuitive to use the `#` for both. Controversial idea: in the composer `/` should be used to refer to categories. Too nerdy?

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