Hi everyone. First time caller. First off, sorry I didn’t find Tiller earlier. Wonderful product and a strong community of users. A welcome change from the corporate overlords who want to sell my hard earned data to the highest bidder. I use tags pretty extensively. I have a couple years worth of …

Welcome to tiller! I agree this is a great product and community. I have learned a lot from the other users and taken advantage of many of the available sheets contributed by the community. This is a great idea. There may be some interest in community availability for this. I use tags in a limited …

Hi Tom, I use categories and tags the same way you do, and this would be a beneficial add-on for me.

In your example about electricity and utilities, I use Utilities for the group, and Gas or electric for the category. Do you have other uses for tags that go beyond categories/sub category capabilities? One possible use for me for tags is when the tag value is not related to category or sub categ…

That’s an excellent example of why tags can be important. My example with utilities was very basic, but where tags really come in handy for me is when there’s a big event. We took a big family trip to Europe this summer and having the ability to tag to categories like restaurant and transportation m…

Hi Dave, One of the most valuable features of Tiller, in my opinion, is the ability to make categories and tags as broad or narrow as we want. I keep my categories broad, with Home & Living Expense using the most tags. For example, my Home & Living Expenses category has Tags for Home Improvement, …

Oh, I like that Rebecca. You method keeps the categories nice and concise and you expand out using the tags. I’m going to use that going forward.

I used tags mainly for travel and annual expenses - I categorize travel, then tag food, flight, etc. For annual expenses, I simplified the majority of my once a year charges to annual expenses category then tag kindle, audible, renters insurance, AAA, and the like, though Auto insurance is in it’s o…

I guess I’m still a little confused. Is no one else using Groups/Categories? I’ve seen a lot of references to categories and tags, where in my opinion the same structure can be accomplished groups and categories. The on area where I could use tags is when the tag value is pretty independent of cate…

Wow Dave. I thought I had a mind for detail. That’s incredible. My love of tags is due to the fact that you can have a many to one ration, and categories are limited to one. It’s true that you can have multiple categories per group, but you can only have one per transaction. I like the freedom of b…

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jpfieber April 15, 2026, 8:28pm 3

Sounds interesting and worth sharing. I don’t think it can be included in the “Tiller Community Solutions” because they avoid scripting, but I think you can still share it in the templates area. Here’s a post that talks about how to approach that.

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