# Browse Categories - How It Works (Simple Explanation)

The browse categories feature helps you find people, organizations, and posts by clicking on topic categories instead of typing search words.

## How It Works

**Pick Your Topics:**
Click on category buttons like "Gardening," "Technology," or "Community Events." You can select multiple categories at once. When you pick a main category, it automatically includes all its sub-topics too.

**Location Still Matters:**
Just like the regular search, people and content near you appear first. Someone in your neighborhood will show up before someone far away, even if they're in the same categories.

**What Gets Prioritized:**
1. **Events and posts** appear first
2. **Organizations and banks** come next  
3. **Individual people** appear last

**Smart Matching:**
The system looks for exact category matches first, then finds similar topics. If you select "Cooking," it might also find "Food Preparation" or "Culinary Arts."

## What You See

Results appear the same way as regular search - profile cards with photos and skills, event cards with images and dates. The difference is you're browsing by organized topics rather than searching with keywords.

The category browser collapses and expands sections to keep things tidy, and you can easily remove categories you don't want anymore.