Tags and entities
A tag cuts across everything — apply one to a card, a group, a whole cluster or a passage of text, and the tag's detail view gathers every one of them from anywhere in the workspace. Tags can be typed as entities like character, setting, organization, concept or thing, and the app suggests tags automatically without ever applying one on its own.
Tags are the cross-cutting layer. Clusters give you hierarchy; tags give you everything that does not fit a hierarchy.
Tagging
Right-click almost anything → tag. You can tag:
The picker suggests as you type, and Enter creates a tag that does not exist yet. Multi-select is supported — most things carry more than one.
A tag is not a location. Tagging moves nothing.
The tag detail view
Open a tag from the sidebar and you get everything carrying it, from anywhere in the workspace, arranged hierarchically — boards, then groups, then cards.
This is the payoff. "Show me everything about the diner" spans a script scene, a reference wall, a schedule entry and a message thread, and no folder structure could have anticipated that grouping.
Entity types
A tag can be typed:
| Type | For |
|---|---|
| Character | People in the work |
| Setting | Locations |
| Organization | Companies, departments, crews |
| Concept | Themes, ideas, looks |
| Thing | Objects, props, assets |
Typed tags get an appropriate colour and drive the hover previews and backlinks in links and mentions.
Automatic tagging
Two layers, neither of which applies a tag on its own.
The matcher recognises names you have already used. Write "Diner" in a note after creating a Diner tag, and it is detected and offered.
The AI tagger goes further, suggesting tags for content it has not seen a name for — including from image content. It is on by default and can be switched off.
In both cases suggestion is the whole behaviour. Nothing is tagged until you accept it. A workspace silently filling with tags nobody chose would be worse than no tagging at all.
Emergent themes
Beyond individual suggestions, the app looks for clusters of related content and proposes a name for the theme it found — material that clearly belongs together but that nobody had a word for yet.
Accepting one creates the tag and applies it to the group that suggested it.
Propagation and backfill
Creating a tag offers to apply it to existing content that matches, so a tag created late is not empty.
A tag applied to a group propagates to what is in it, and in documents a tag on a paragraph can cascade to related passages.
Finding by tag
- The sidebar lists workspace tags
⌘Ksearches tags alongside everything else- The tag detail view is the full hierarchical browse
Frequently asked questions
Do tags move things?
No. A tag is not a location. The same card can carry several tags and stays exactly where it is.
Does the AI tagger tag things without asking?
No. It only ever suggests. Nothing is tagged until you accept a suggestion.
What is an entity type?
A tag can be typed as a character, setting, organization, concept or thing. Typed tags get an appropriate colour and behaviour, and are what make hover previews and backlinks useful.
Machine-readable: /docs/organize/tags.md · /llms.txt