11-27-2019, 04:40 PM
"Tags" appear to be getting imported from somewhere else in my Playnite install. Perhaps IGDB? I'm not really sure. But there are tags on my games that I didn't create.
"Categories" can be imported from Steam for any games in your Steam library, although similar functionality doesn't appear to exist for other platforms that might have their own tagging system.
For example, I had a pretty extensive system of categories in Steam, so I could filter games by all sorts of things - genre, play status (ie: Unplayed, Unfinished, Completed, etc), installed or not installed, and various game features I found interesting to track (ie: time travel, great soundtrack, etc.)
A lot of these are separate filters in Playnite already (genre and play status for example) so I've just been using those and deleting my imported categories. I could've theoretically just kept my categories imported from Steam and ignored the other filters in Playnite, but since I couldn't easily import them for my non-Steam games, I figured I'd just start over.
"Categories" can be imported from Steam for any games in your Steam library, although similar functionality doesn't appear to exist for other platforms that might have their own tagging system.
For example, I had a pretty extensive system of categories in Steam, so I could filter games by all sorts of things - genre, play status (ie: Unplayed, Unfinished, Completed, etc), installed or not installed, and various game features I found interesting to track (ie: time travel, great soundtrack, etc.)
A lot of these are separate filters in Playnite already (genre and play status for example) so I've just been using those and deleting my imported categories. I could've theoretically just kept my categories imported from Steam and ignored the other filters in Playnite, but since I couldn't easily import them for my non-Steam games, I figured I'd just start over.