Staying Organized
The Tiller Community is organized around a few major functions. Helping and getting help with Tiller -powered spreadsheets, sharing your work with others, sharing and voting on ideas on how to make Tiller better, and having lively conversations with other Tiller enthusiasts.
The community is organized by categories and tags.
Categories
Categories are explained in more detail in the Getting Started Guide. Briefly, here are the Categories and short descriptions.
Ask Anything
Need help or advice, but not sure where to ask? Ask anything here.
Ask Anything > Getting Started
Content on how to get started with Tiller and the Tiller Community.
Discussion
Start a conversation with the community. Share your Tiller Money story, what inspires you, or chat about money.
Google Sheets
Ask for help, advice, or troubleshooting tips when you’re feeling stuck with Tiller-powered Google Sheets.
Google Sheets > Show & Tell
Share your solution, tool, or workflow for Tiller-powered Google Sheets.
Microsoft Excel
Ask for help, advice, or troubleshooting tips when you’re feeling stuck with Tiller-powered Excel workbooks.
Microsoft Excel > Show & Tell
Share your solution, tool, or workflow for Tiller-powered Excel workbooks.
News & Announcements
Latest updates, news, and announcements from the Tiller team.
Feature Requests
Create topics in this category when you have ideas about how to make Tiller better. Please review ideas already posted to make sure you don’t create a duplicate. Vote on requests you want to see Tiller build.
Tags
Tags are used in three ways to help keep the community tidy and organized.
Solution Identifiers
Identifying topics associated with a specific solution, template, workflow, or tool.
Most solutions installed via the Tiller Community Solutions add-on are prepended with the acronym “tcs” such as tcs-savings-budget is the tag used for topics associated with the Savings Budget sheet installed via the Tiller Community Solutions add-on
When the appropriate tag is used for a topic associated with a Tiller Community Solution the topic will show up under recent conversations in the Tiller Community Solutions add-on help section. This helps community members and Tiller Community Solutions add-on users find relevant and helpful information about a specific solution they’ve installed.
It also keeps the community organized so all the topics about a specific solution are easily accessible in one place.
Goal identifiers
These tags identify the financial goal behind the topic if applicable such as budgeting, tracking, investments, net worth, debt reduction, business, taxes, and more. These tags are applied to topics about solutions to help organize solutions based on goal type and make them easy for community members to find. All Labs solutions are also assigned a financial goal tag to help members browse and learn about different solutions by goal in the community.
Members may also use these tags to communicate that their particular Discussion or Show & Tell topic is associated with a specific goal.
Intent identifiers
These tags help identify the intent of creating the topic. The three primary intents we see in the Get Help category are troubleshooting something that seems broken, asking how to do something, and advice on how something should be done or understood.
If someone uses the how-to tag for their topic asking how to automatically fill down the contents of a column using a formula they’re intention is to ask how to do something.
This is distinct from advice which is often used in the Workflows & Tools category where someone is asking for advice about how to structure a workflow and is less tactical and more nuanced or weighted by opinions (i.e. there are multiple ways to accomplish the end goal, but what do folks think is the best way).
If the troubleshooting tag is used the intent is that something seems broken and someone needs help fixing it.