Tags

A folder can only put a document in one place, but most documents belong to more than one category at once, a meeting note that's also a project artifact, a draft that's also a todo. Tags let you label a document by topic, status, or workflow without moving it, and a single document can carry as many tags as it needs.

Inline tags

Type a # directly before a word anywhere in the body of a document to turn it into a tag. Add a / between words to create a nested tag, useful for grouping related tags under a shared parent such as a project name.

#productivity #notes #project/roadmap

Front matter tags

If you'd rather keep tags out of the body text, list them under a tags key in front matter instead. Front matter tags work exactly like inline tags, including nested tags written with a /.

---
tags:
  - docs
  - project/roadmap
---

Using tags

Wherever they're written, tags surface in your project's tag tools so you can browse every document under a given tag at once, and they appear as connected tag nodes in Graph View, making it easy to spot which documents share a label even if they never link to each other directly.

Related pages

To attach a tag list alongside other structured metadata, see Front Matter. To see how tagged documents relate to each other visually, see Graph View.