Tags

Category: metadata concept

Summary: Labels attached to notes to support grouping, filtering, or retrieval.

What it means

Tags can be useful when they represent status, type, context, or recurring themes. They become messy when used as a replacement for thinking.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to tagging-strategy, metadata, search, folder-structure, and para.

Common mistakes

• Creating too many tags.
• Using tags and folders for the same job without intention.

Related pages

• tagging-strategy
• metadata
• search
• folder-structure
• para