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Tags

Summary

Dendron supports adding tags to your notes. Tags can be added either inline as a hashtag (eg. #foo) or in the Frontmatter.

Note: To avoid clashing with GitHub issue and PR numbers (ex. #6778), tags do not support starting with a number. All tags must start with a letter.

Hashtags

A hashtag is anything following # without any spaces. 

#example.my-example

The tag will look like #example.my-example. (Private)

In Dendron, tags are just a shorthand for writing [[#example.my-example|tags.example.my-example]]. You can format your tags as wikilinks if you run into any limitations with tags.

To find all notes that were tagged with this tag, you can click on it while holding down Ctrl, press Ctrl+Enter on your keyboard, or use the Dendron: Go to Note command. Once you open the tag, expand the Backlinks section on your editor to see everywhere this tag was used.

Punctuation

One thing to remember: You can't include things like spaces, quotation marks, question marks in hashtags. For #example, see how "these #tags" don't include the punctuation marks around them. This makes it natural to use tags within sentences.

Autocomplete (intellisense)

Tags support autocomplete (intellisense), but tag notes must be created for autocomplete to work. To create a tag note, select the tag and use Dendron: Go to Note command or hit Ctrl+Enter.

Custom colors

Tags are automatically assigned colors to help you identify them easily. If you don't like the automatic colors, you can always override what color the tags should be by setting the color in the frontmatter of the tag note. For example, the following tag is #blue, and you can click on it to see how to customize the color.

The colors themselves are just CSS, so you can use any #RRGGBB (Private) or similar color. You can also use any color named here

Setting a tag color affects the colors of all tags within the hierarchy. For example, the tag #example is set to color red, so #example.my-example is also red. This allows you to organize your tags with color codes. You can always override the color deeper within the hierarchy, we could set #example.my-example to green while keeping #example red.

Disabling automatic colors

The automatically assigned tag colors can be disabled. To disable them in publishing, see noRandomlyColoredTags site config, and to disable them in the editor see noRandomlyColoredTags general config.

Publishing

Tags work in publishing like regular links. The only caveat is that if you want your viewers to see all notes that use a tag, you must create that tag note. Otherwise, Dendron will just tell them that this note did not sprout yet. We're working on an improvement to this, so keep an eye out for updates!

Multi-vault

Tags can't specify which vault they are in. This is not a problem most of the time, Dendron will find your tag wherever it is. But if you have the same tag in multiple vaults and you want to clarify which one, you can use a Cross Vault Link instead since tags are just wikilinks.

Details

You might have already noticed this when you opened the tag, but tags are just notes under the tags. hierarchy. This has a lot of benefits:

  • You can use commands like Rename Note or Refactor Hierarchy to rename or reorganize your tags, and it will update all notes where these tags were used.
  • You can add content to your tag and it will show up when you hover over the tag in the editor, or when you publish it. Try clicking on the example tag above!
  • You can organize your tags into hierarchies (like #cuisine.ethiopian and #cuisine.swedish).
  • You can link tags together by adding links in their content.

Configuration

Don't like hashtags? You can disable them by setting the enableHashTags configuration to false.

Frontmatter tags

You can also put tags in the frontmatter of your note. For example, the frontmatter of your note with a tag may look like this:

---
id: QXPVbTIZTch9hUOVtScsu
title: My Note
desc: ""
updated: 1628065917670
created: 1628065917670
tags: my.example
---

This will link the note to the tag tags.my.example. To add multiple tags, you can write them in multiple lines:

tags:
    - my.example
    - other.one

Or, within a single line:

tags: [my.example, other.one]

This note actually has a frontmatter tag set. You can see what it looks like published at the bottom of the page.

Tags

  1. example.from-frontmatter
Backlinks