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Hierarchical Tags

MakerVault supports up to 3 levels of tag hierarchy, letting you organize tags in a tree structure that mirrors how you think about your files.

Example hierarchy

Section titled “Example hierarchy”
Holiday
├── Christmas
│   ├── Ornaments
│   └── Gift Tags
├── Easter
└── Halloween


Year
├── 2025
└── 2026


Material
├── Wood
├── Acrylic
└── Leather

How nesting works

Section titled “How nesting works”
  • Level 1: Top-level tags (Holiday, Year, Material)
  • Level 2: Children of top-level tags (Christmas, 2025, Wood)
  • Level 3: Grandchildren (Ornaments, Gift Tags)

Maximum depth is 3 levels. When creating a tag in Settings, the parent dropdown shows tags at depth 0 and 1 only.

Filtering by parent

Section titled “Filtering by parent”

When you click a parent tag in the sidebar, MakerVault automatically includes all its descendants. Clicking “Holiday” shows files tagged with Holiday, Christmas, Ornaments, Gift Tags, Easter, or Halloween.

This uses a recursive SQL query to walk the tag tree, so it’s instant regardless of how many children exist.

Tag tree sidebar

Section titled “Tag tree sidebar”

The left sidebar shows your tags in a collapsible tree view. Each tag shows:

  • Its color dot
  • Its name
  • The number of files tagged (including files tagged with descendants)

Click the chevron to expand or collapse a tag’s children.

Search and tags

Section titled “Search and tags”

When you search, tag names are included in the search index. Searching for “christmas” finds files tagged “Christmas” even if the filename doesn’t contain that word.