Tags, Favorites, and Search

As recordings pile up, finding the right one fast matters more than recording it. LanEcho offers three ways to stay organized: tags group recordings by project or scenario, Favorites pins the important ones, and search locates keywords across titles, Transcripts, Smart Summaries, and Chapters. Used together, they keep any recording at your fingertips. Tags and search are on by default — no setup needed.

Tags

The Home Page Tab Bar

The top of the LanEcho home page shows all your tags as tabs. Tap a tag to view every recording under it as a list:

• “My Recordings”, “Shared With Me”, and “Favorites” are system tags: fixed in place, and can’t be renamed, deleted, or moved.
• Your custom tags sit after the system tags. When there are many, swipe left and right to browse, or tap the expand button to see them all in a pop-up card, which scrolls up and down.
• A recording can belong to several tags at once, and recordings in “Shared With Me” can be tagged too.
• Tags are saved to your account, and name uniqueness is judged within your own account.
• Overlong tag names show on one line in the tab bar with the tail ellipsized. Tags don’t appear on the “Recording Info” tab.

Tagging a Recording

You can adjust a recording’s tags anytime — open the dialog again to add or remove checks:

1. In the home page recording list, long-press the target recording to open the action menu (“Favorite” on top, “Set Tags” below).
2. Choose “Set Tags” to open the tag picker. Tags the recording already has are pre-checked; with none yet, it shows “No tags yet”.
3. Tap tags to check them — multi-select is supported. Tags appear as buttons and scroll vertically when numerous.
4. If nothing fits, tap “New Tag” to create one on the spot — it’s checked automatically on creation, and your earlier checks stay checked.
5. Tap “OK” to save and the recording joins the selected tags; tap “Cancel” to discard.

For example, tag a “Shared With Me” recording with “Lansenger” and “LanEcho”, and it shows up under all three tabs: “Shared With Me”, “Lansenger”, and “LanEcho”.

Creating Tags

• In the “New Tag” dialog, type a name and tap “Save” to create it, or “Cancel” to abandon.
• Tag names run 1–30 characters — you can’t type beyond that.
• Tag names can’t repeat within the same account; saving a duplicate prompts “Save failed: the tag already exists.”
• Names support Chinese and English letters, digits, and common Chinese and English punctuation — no emoji or special characters. Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed automatically, and all-space names are rejected outright.
• You can have up to 100 custom tags. At the cap, creating a new one prompts “Tag limit reached” — clean up tags you no longer use first.
• When you enter “New Tag” from the expanded card, saving returns you to the tag tab you were on — it doesn’t jump back to “My Recordings”.

Managing Tags

On the home page, tap the expand button in the tab bar, then tap “Manage” in the pop-up card to open the tag management page (the card also offers “Set Tags” and “New Tag” entries). The page lists system tags, your custom tags, and the “New Tag” entry in order:

• View all tags: the system tags (My Recordings, Shared With Me, Favorites) are all grayed out and can’t be changed.
• New: tap “New Tag” right on the management page to create a tag.
• Rename: tap “Rename” next to a custom tag and change the name in the “Edit Tag” dialog — the home tab bar updates on save. Name uniqueness is judged only among custom tags and never conflicts with system tags.
• Delete: tap the delete button to the left of a tag. The confirmation says “Recordings in this tag will not be deleted — only the tag group. Continue?” Tap “Cancel” (left) to back out or “Continue” (right) to confirm. After “Continue”, the tag isn’t deleted immediately — it’s actually removed when you return to the previous page. Deleting only removes the tag group; the recordings under it are unaffected.
• Reorder: drag the move handle to the right of a tag to rearrange; the home tab bar follows the new order.

If the sharer revokes your access to a “Shared With Me” recording, it disappears from every tag of yours — but the tags you created remain.

Favorites

Favorites is for important recordings you’ll revisit often — meeting minutes to write up, interviews where client asks need double-checking:

1. In the home page recording list, long-press the target recording to open the action menu.
2. Choose “Favorite” — you’ll see “Added to Favorites”.
3. Open the “Favorites” tab on the home page to see everything you’ve favorited in one place.

Favorites is really a built-in system tag: a favorited recording stays in its original tags and simply gains the “Favorites” tag on top — your other organization methods are unaffected.

Search

Search goes beyond recording titles — the body text of Transcripts, Smart Summaries, and Chapters is searched too, and tag filters narrow results down fast:

1. Tap the search icon at the top right of the home page to open search.
2. Type a keyword in the search box (placeholder: “Search”). The system matches the keyword exactly and returns results in real time. Keywords run 1–200 characters — you can’t type beyond that.
3. To narrow the scope, tap “Tag Filter” to expand all tags: tap a tag to highlight and select it, tap again to deselect, and multi-select works. Tap anywhere blank or tap the filter button again to filter results by the selected tags.
4. Tap a recording in the results to open its details; tap “Cancel” or “Back” to return to the home page.

Search scope and result display rules:

• Scope: recording titles, Transcripts, Smart Summaries, and Chapters.
• On a title hit, the keyword is highlighted in the title.
• On a Transcript, Smart Summary, or Chapter hit, “Contains keyword: xxxx” appears below the result with the keyword highlighted.
• When both the title and content of a recording hit, the title is highlighted and “Contains keyword: xxxx” shows below it too.
• When a recording hits in multiple places, results are ranked by priority: title, Smart Summary, Transcript, then Chapters.
• The first search returns 20 results; each scroll up loads 10 more.
• With no matches, “No matching results” is shown — try a different keyword or fewer filter tags.

For sharing and permission management, see “Sharing and Permission Management”. For generating Transcripts and summaries, see “Transcript and Playback” and “Smart Summary and Chapters”.