Commonly used for characters since you would usually want to add the series they're from too. Parents are for when you want a tag to always add another tag. It is also worth having a look at siblings for when you want to consolidate different tags that all mean the same thing, common misspellings, or preferential differences into one tag.

If you have imported and/or downloaded some files and want to get started searching and tagging see searching and sorting and getting started with ratings. If you want to add the ability to download from sites not already available in Hydrus by default, check out adding new downloaders for how and a link to a user-maintained archive of downloaders. If you want to download with Hydrus, check out getting started with downloading. If you already have many local files, either downloaded by hand or by some other downloader tool, head to the getting started importing section to begin importing them. Have a look at getting started with files to get an overview of the Hydrus client. It is recommended to read at least all of the getting started pages, but if you want to head to some specific section directly go ahead and do so. This page serves as a checklist or overview for the getting started part of Hydrus.

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