Name, describe, and tag a circuit
The name, description, and tags on a circuit are what make it findable later, in your own list and in search.
Britt Espinosa
Last Update 15 days ago
Three fields decide whether you can find a circuit again in six months: its name, its description, and its tags. All three live in the Circuit Properties panel, and the name is also editable from the editor top bar.
Renaming from the top bar
The circuit title sits at the top left of the editor. Click it to edit in place. The controls are Edit circuit name, Save circuit name, and Discard circuit name changes.
A name change saves on its own, straight away, without touching the schematic. You get Circuit name saved successfully, or Failed to save circuit name if the write does not land.
The Details section
Turn on the Properties panel from the top bar, then open the Details section.
- Circuit owner is read only. It shows who the circuit belongs to, which matters on circuits shared with you through a group.
- Circuit name is the same field as the top bar title, edited from a slightly roomier box.
- The description editor holds the longer explanation. It shows up on the public circuit page under About this circuit, and it is indexed by search.
- The tag list holds the keywords.
What descriptions are for
Write the description for the person who opens the circuit cold, including future you. What the circuit does, what the interesting part is, and what a reader should look at first are all worth a line each.
Longer working notes belong in the Notes panel instead, which is a full markdown page attached to the circuit. Notes are searchable too, so design reasoning written there is not lost.
Tags
Tags are the fastest filter you have once your list grows past a screenful.
On the My circuits and Public circuits pages, the filter popover offers Filter by tags with a Select tags to filter field. Pick one or more tags and the list narrows to circuits carrying them. Sorting by Name, Date created, or Last modified works alongside the filter.
On a public circuit page, tags render as chips in the Tags card, and each chip is a link into the public circuit list filtered by that tag. A circuit with no tags shows No tags yet. there instead.
Useful tagging habits:
- Pick a small vocabulary and reuse it. Ten tags used often beat sixty used once.
- Tag by what the circuit is for, not by what parts are in it. Component names are already searchable.
- Tag work in progress so you can filter it out of a shared list.
What search covers
Circuit search reads the name, the description, the circuit notes, the simulation type, the names of components on the schematic, and the tags. Drafts are never indexed, so a circuit you have not saved yet will not appear.
For the basics of saving and locating a circuit, see save-a-circuit-and-find-it-again.