Categories

Get categories on your events, so your members can filter for just what they want.

Setting up categories

To make your events filterable by category, you'll need some categories! Add them on the Categories tab. I recommend clicking the color spot next to each one and setting a dark color, which will be used in dark form for the filter buttons and in faded form for decorating your event tiles.

Event tiles on a calendar, each with a coloured category pill such as Meetings, Food and Drink, or Kids and Family, tinted in the category's colour

Rules: categorizing without AI

You can use the rules to avoid AI usage. The Keywords rule looks for text that matches your keywords (in the title or description, case-insensitive). Pinned haunt-native categories will match an ICS feed that has categories. If you have a source already categorizing events, mapping to your category names can save time and improve accuracy!

The Categories tab: three categories with colour dots on the left, and on the right the rule for Kids and Family, with a Keywords box holding Story time and a Pinned categories box holding Baby Zoo

If AI categorization is enabled, and no rule matches, your event will be submitted to AI for categorization. The AI can only choose from your categories (or choose not to categorize), so having a fuller set of categories may improve your results.

Categories have types ✨

Giving your categories a "type" will allow visitors to filter for multiple categories at once, for example, if they want to see kid-friendly events that are free. Add types (Topic, Cost, Audience, whatever fits) under Category types and put each category in one; visitors pick one filter per type, and an event has to satisfy every type they've chosen. Categories with no type stay in one flat list.

The Categories tab with the Category types panel circled: types Topic and Cost, and the categories grouped under them, Fitness, Food and Drink, Kids and Family and Meetings under Topic, and Free under Cost

When category changes take effect

AI categorization will rerun overnight if categories have been changed. Or if you're in a rush, you can hit the refresh button next to a specific source, in which case those changes will be live in 5-10 minutes. Re-run rules for this site on the Categories tab re-applies your keyword and pinned-category rules right away.