Tags¶
Folders organize notes by location — a note lives in exactly one folder. Tags organize notes by topic, and a note can carry as many tags as you like. Together they let you keep a tidy folder tree while still grouping related notes that live far apart in it.
Tags require a bundled notebook
Tags are stored in the notebook's index, which only bundled notebooks have. In a raw notebook the Tags button is not shown, and the tag popup reports that tags are not supported for that notebook type.
What tags are for¶
Use tags whenever a single folder can't capture how you think about a note. A meeting note might be tagged project-x and 2026-q1; a code snippet note might be tagged python and reference. Later you can pull up every note with a given tag regardless of where it sits in the folder tree.
Tags are stored in the notebook's configuration, so they travel with the notebook when you copy or sync it.
Add and remove tags¶
Open a note and use the Tags button in the note's toolbar to add one or more tags in the tag popup. Type a new tag name to create it, or pick from tags you already use. Remove a tag from a note the same way. A note keeps working exactly as before — tagging changes nothing in the Markdown file's content.
Browse notes by tag¶
The Tags dock widget lists all tags in the current notebook. Select a tag to see every note that carries it, then open a note directly from the list. This turns a scattered set of notes into a focused, topic-based view.
Find notes by tag with United Entry¶
United Entry can search by tag, so you can jump to tagged notes from the keyboard without opening the dock. Use the find command with the tag object and a scope:
find -b tag -s notebook— search by tag in the current notebook.find -b tag -s folder— search by tag in the current folder.find -b tag -s all_notebook— search by tag across all notebooks.
Type the command, then the tag keyword, to filter instantly.
Tips¶
- Keep a small, consistent vocabulary of tags — a handful of well-chosen tags is more useful than many one-off ones.
- Combine tags with Quick Access & History and Search to move quickly between related notes.