This page serves as a checklist or overview for the getting started part of Hydrus. It is recommended to read at least all of the getting started pages, but if you want to head to some specific section directly go ahead and do so.
If you already have many local files, either downloaded by hand or by some other downloader tool, head to the [getting started with files](getting_started_files.md) section to begin importing them.
If you want to download with Hydrus, check out [getting started with downloading](getting_started_downloading.md) and then [getting started with subscriptions](getting_started_subscriptions.md). If you want to add the ability to download from sites not already available in Hydrus by default, check out [adding new downloaders](adding_new_downloaders.md) for how and a link to a user-maintained archive of downloaders.
If you have imported and/or downloaded some files and want to get started searching and tagging see [searching and sorting](searching_and_sorting.md) and [getting started with ratings](getting_started_ratings.md).
It is also worth having a look at [siblings](advanced_siblings.md) for when you want to consolidate different tags that all mean the same thing, common misspellings, or preferential differences into one tag.
[Parents](advanced_parents.md) are for when you want a tag to always add another tag. Commonly used for characters since you would usually want to add the series they're from too.
Have a lot of very similar looking pictures because of one reason or another? Have a look at [duplicates](duplicates.md), Hydrus' duplicates finder and filtering tool.
