Tags

Tags are the loose counterpart to entities. An entity is a typed record — a Character has the fields every Character has. A tag is just a label: put “Act II”, “needs research” or “Grief” on anything, in any combination, without deciding in advance what it means.

Anything in your project can carry tags — notes, entities, chapters, tables, maps, mindmaps.

Tagging something

Open a note or an entity. Above its Properties section there’s a tag strip:

1. Click Add a tag.
2. Type. Matching tags appear as you go.
3. Pick one, or choose Create “…” to make a new tag and apply it in one step.

You can also tag anything straight from the sidebar: hover a row, open its ⋯ menu, then Edit → Add Tag.

Click the × on a chip to take the tag off. Removing a tag from one note never deletes the tag itself — it stays available everywhere else.

Renaming, recolouring and icons

Hover any tag in the picker and click its ⋯ button. From there you can:

• Rename it — every item carrying it follows along, since the tag itself is what’s attached, not a copy of its name.
• Change its icon — pick any app icon or emoji, or clear it back to the default tag icon.
• Change its colour.
• Delete it.

The same menu is on every tag row in the sidebar’s Tags panel.

Note

Tags are case-insensitive. Typing “draft” when a tag called “Draft” already exists applies the existing one rather than making a near-duplicate. Whatever capitalization you used when you first created it is the one that’s shown.

Nesting tags

Tags can live inside other tags — “Themes / Grief”, “Themes / Exile”. A parent tag’s count includes everything filed under it, so collapsing “Themes” still tells you how much is in there.

Nesting is optional. A flat list of tags works perfectly well, and you can start flat and nest later.

The Tags panel

The Tags entry in the project sidebar opens the whole tree:

• Each tag shows how many items carry it (including anything under its nested tags).
• Expand a tag to see those items, and click one to open it.
• The ⋯ menu on a tag row renames it, changes its icon or colour, or deletes it.

Filtering search by tag

Open search (Cmd/Ctrl + P) and the tag row sits under the search box:

• Click tags to filter. Selecting more than one narrows the results — an item has to carry all the selected tags, not any of them.
• With tags selected and no search text, you get everything carrying them, alphabetically. That’s the “show me what I filed under this” view.
• Type as well, and you’re searching text within the tagged set.

Deleting a tag

Deleting a tag hides it everywhere — the sidebar, the picker, and every chip — but it does not forget which items carried it. If you delete “Act II” from two hundred chapters and change your mind, restoring the tag brings all two hundred back exactly as they were.

Deleting a tag also takes any tags nested inside it.

Tags and backups

Tags and their assignments are part of your project, so they’re included in workspace archives and travel with a project when you duplicate it. Nothing extra to turn on.