Starring, Annotating & Tagging
Mark positions worth revisiting — a star, a free-text note, or your own custom tags — and how those sit alongside the automatic position tags.
While you review, you can attach your own marks to any position. Everything here is yours and editable — separate from the read-only comments imported with the file, and separate from the automatic tags BackgammonDB applies. Starred and annotated positions collect on the Saved page for later study.
Star a position
The fastest mark. Press S (or click the star chip in the action row) to star or unstar the current position. A star is just a boolean flag — "come back to this".
Add a note
Press N to open the notes sheet: a free-text box for whatever you want to record — a line of reasoning, a reminder, a reference. The sheet also has the star toggle and the tag editor in one place. Notes save when you close the sheet.
Add custom tags
Custom tags are your own labels — "opening theory", "cube I keep misplaying", whatever scheme suits you.
- Press
Tfor the quick-tag menu: a popover of your previously-used tags, most-used first, each with a one-letter hotkey, plus an Add new… entry. - Or use the tag field in the notes sheet (
N) for free-text entry with autocomplete from tags you've used before.
The action row shows amber star, note, and tag chips so you can see at a glance what a position already carries.
Custom tags vs. automatic tags
Don't confuse your custom tags with the automatic position tags BackgammonDB assigns on import. The notes sheet shows the automatic ones too, read-only, so you can see how a position was classified:
- its phase,
- each player's position type (with modifiers), and
- the turn's events, including how your move related to the best one.
Those automatic tags are the engine behind the positions browser and its presets — see Position Tagging for the full vocabulary. Your custom tags layer on top: both are filterable, so you can ask for "every position I tagged cube I keep misplaying that's also a holding game".
Filtering on what you've marked
In a review, the action list Starred filter narrows to positions you've starred or annotated. Across your whole library, the Saved page gathers them all and lets you filter by phase, event, tag, and error size.