actualNoteContentPart: Amplenote uses tags to help categorize and prioritize notes. With tags, you can easily organize, search your notes by tag, quickly return to important items, or filter on notes you’d like to share with others. 
  
  # On Youtube: All About Tagging
  If you prefer to learn with videos, check out this video for the **basics of tagging**, **filtering by tags and nested tags:**
  
  
  Or check out this video for **searching using tags and tag shortcuts:**
  
  
  Or check out this video for **inspiration for choosing tag hierarchies, **especially for quickly finding notes, color coding tasks and seeing detailed productivity reports:
  
  
  # Adding tags to notes
  Click the "Add a tag" link in the note header and enter the word or phrase you wish to use to categorize the note
  Hit the Enter or Return key to save the tag
  You can add multiple tags to a single note.
  Click on the # icon next to the tag to change the tag color for at-a-glance organization.
  
  Applicable tag suggestions will be shown as you enter your hierarchy:
  
  
  Suggestions are given while typing tag so as to prevent duplicate hierarchies
  
  
  ## Adding tags to notes using drag-and-drop
  
  Assign tags to notes by dragging and dropping from the sidebar to the note list
  
  
  # Deleting tags from notes
  To remove a tag from a note, click the triple-dot to the right of the tag name, then select "Remove tag"
  
  
  Removing a tag from a note
  
  
   
  # 
  # Tag naming rules to prevent duplicate hierarchies
  One of the most frustrating long-term problems experienced by note taking enthusiasts is redundant tag/folder hierarchies. 
  
  For example, on the first day you use the app, you're inclined to tag your blog draft as tech-blog/drafts. But then, a month later, you create another blog post and apply the tag Tech_Blog/Draft. An innocent mistake like this can forever muddy the waters about which path is the "real" home of draft blog posts? We, the builders of Amplenote, suffered through this problem frequently enough that we have built you a tool designed specifically to escape this lamentable end.
  
  These are the Amplenote "tag rules" that minimize the potential for duplicate tags in your Amplenote notebook:
  **Tag hierarchy names are always lower-cased**. If you type in Blog/Draft, we'll automatically convert that to blog/draft so that you don't end up with a bunch of tag names like Blog/Draft, blog/Draft, Blog/draft to consolidate as your collection of notes grows. 
  **All spacing and punctuation is replaced by "-"**. For example, if you type Tech Blog/Drafts, we will automatically convert that to tech-blog/drafts. Ditto Tech_Blog/Drafts, which also becomes tech-blog/drafts.
  Along with these rules, we always **auto-suggest existing tag names **as you're entering a tag, to maximize your odds to reuse-vs-recreate your organization hierarchy. 
  
  We have found this set of tactics work together effectively to minimize the duplication of tag hierarchies. See [Five recommendations for choosing hierarchy/nested tag names](/help/five_recommendations_tag_hierarchy_naming)  for more ideas on how to choose tag names that scale.
processedNoteContent: ---
  title: Organizing with tags
  tags: 
  ---
  Amplenote uses tags to help categorize and prioritize notes. With tags, you can easily organize, search your notes by tag, quickly return to important items, or filter on notes you’d like to share with others. 
  On Youtube: All About Tagging
  If you prefer to learn with videos, check out this video for the basics of tagging
  , filtering by tags and nested tags:
  Or check out this video for searching using tags and tag shortcuts:
  Or check out this video for **inspiration for choosing tag hierarchies, **especially for quickly finding notes, color coding tasks and seeing detailed productivity reports: 
  Adding tags to notes
  Click the "Add a tag" link in the note header and enter the word or phrase you wish to use to categorize the note
  Hit the Enter or Return key to save the tag
  You can add multiple tags to a single note.
  Click on the # icon next to the tag to change the tag color for at-a-glance organization. Applicable tag suggestions will be shown as you enter your hierarchy: Suggestions are given while typing tag so as to prevent duplicate hierarchies 
  Adding tags to notes using drag-and-drop
  Assign tags to notes by dragging and dropping from the sidebar to the note list 
  Deleting tags from notes
  To remove a tag from a note, click the triple-dot to the right of the tag name, then select "Remove tag" Removing a tag from a note 
  
  
  Tag naming rules to prevent duplicate hierarchies
  One of the most frustrating long-term problems experienced by note taking enthusiasts is redundant tag/folder hierarchies. For example, on the first day you use the app, you're inclined to tag your blog draft as tech-blog/drafts. But then, a month later, you create another blog post and apply the tag Tech_Blog/Draft. An innocent mistake like this can forever muddy the waters about which path is the "real" home of draft blog posts? We, the builders of Amplenote, suffered through this problem frequently enough that we have built you a tool designed specifically to escape this lamentable end. These are the Amplenote "tag rules" that minimize the potential for duplicate tags in your Amplenote notebook:
  Tag hierarchy names are always lower-cased
  . If you type in Blog/Draft, we'll automatically convert that to blog/draft so that you don't end up with a bunch of tag names like Blog/Draft, blog/Draft, Blog/draft to consolidate as your collection of notes grows.
  All spacing and punctuation is replaced by "-"
  . For example, if you type Tech Blog/Drafts, we will automatically convert that to tech-blog/drafts. Ditto Tech_Blog/Drafts, which also becomes tech-blog/drafts.
  Along with these rules, we always **auto-suggest existing tag names **as you're entering a tag, to maximize your odds to reuse-vs-recreate your organization hierarchy. We have found this set of tactics work together effectively to minimize the duplication of tag hierarchies. See [Five recommendations for choosing hierarchy/nested tag names](/help/five_recommendations_tag_hierarchy_naming)
    for more ideas on how to choose tag names that scale.
noteTitle: Organizing with tags