How to Organize Sermons with Tags, Featured Topics, and Tag Colors

On the Tag Management page, the Recommended Tags card lists five curated groups: Core Theology, Christian Living, Family and Relationships, Church and Ministry, and Series Ideas. Each tag inside a group can be added on its own, or you can press "Add All Recommended" to import every recommendation that you do not already have.

These are starting points, not a rulebook. Once added, you can rename them, feature them, give them colors, or delete them. The recommendations are meant to seed the library before the AI starts generating its own tags from uploaded sermons.

If your church already has a tagging system in another tool, the CSV Import card accepts a one-column CSV with a "name" column. You can download the template, drop your tag names into the file, and upload it. Existing tags are skipped automatically so re-imports are safe.

For churches with hundreds of tags across years of teaching, this is significantly faster than typing each one. After importing, use the search box on the page to find specific tags, rename anything that needs cleanup, and feature the ones members will use most.

Featuring a tag is different from creating one. Featured Topics shows up in the right column of the church homepage as a curated set of clickable topics, designed so members can browse without typing. To feature a tag, click it on the Tag Management page and choose "Add to Featured Topics" from the dropdown. The star next to the tag confirms it is featured.

Featured tags are a church-wide setting. Every admin who features a tag changes what every member sees. Use it intentionally — five to twelve carefully chosen featured topics tend to work better than featuring every tag you have.

Each tag has a color you can change from the same dropdown. This is one of the most commonly misunderstood features: tag colors are stored on your own device, not on the church record. When you set "Marriage" to blue, only your account sees it as blue. Other admins and members see whatever color they have chosen or whatever default has been assigned.

This is intentional. It lets each admin set up the visual style that works for their own review workflow without imposing colors on the rest of the team. There is no shared "official color" for a tag.

On the church homepage and on the dashboard search bar, members can favorite a tag by clicking the star next to it. Favorited tags sort to the top of the topic filter, after featured tags. That makes the topics a particular person uses most easier to reach.

Like tag colors, favorites are per-user. They do not change anything about the underlying tag, and they do not affect anyone else's experience. They are personal shortcuts, not shared settings.