A single shared list is great — until it has 40 items on it and nobody can tell which ones are for tonight's dinner, which are part of the weekly stock-up, and which one person added on their way to the pharmacy.
Tag any item with whatever label makes sense for your household — there's no fixed list to choose from. Once items are tagged, you can filter the list down to just one tag, or sort the whole list so items with the same tag group together. The list itself never splits into separate lists; tags just change what you're looking at.
Say your household tags things by errand: "produce," "pharmacy," "hardware." Whoever's doing the fruit-and-veg run filters down to just "produce" and sees exactly what's needed — not 30 other grocery items mixed in. Someone stopping at the drugstore on their way home filters to "pharmacy" and sees only what applies to that stop. Same list, same data, different view for whoever's looking at it.
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No — tags are entirely optional per item. An untagged item just doesn't show up under any tag filter; it still appears in the full list like normal.
Tags are shared across the list like everything else, so anyone can create a new one or reuse an existing one — there's no separate, per-person tag set to keep in sync.