Folders and tags
Three levels of folders, each with a colour and an icon if you like, and tags that come from the words you type.
Folders and tags do different jobs. A note lives in one folder. It can carry any number of tags.
Folders
The plus beside Folders in the rail makes one. Drag a note onto a folder to move it, or use Move to folder in the note's menu.
Folders go three levels deep: a folder, a folder inside it, and one more. That's a deliberate stop, not a missing feature. Past three levels a tree turns into something you maintain instead of something that helps, and tags do the job better anyway.
A note you've never filed lives in Uncategorized. That's a real place you can open, not an error.
A colour and an icon for each folder
Right-click a folder, or tap its ⋯ on a phone or tablet, and the row of colours at the top of the menu gives it one. The folder's icon takes that colour, and so does every folder inside it that hasn't got a colour of its own. The blank block at the start of the row takes the colour away again.
Change icon… in the same menu gives it an icon of its own, from over 1,800. Type a word to find one: search reads each icon's name and the words it's known by, so "money" finds the wallet and the piggy bank as well as the coins. With nothing typed, it opens on the icons a folder most often wants.
The icons are drawn in the folder's colour, so what you see is what the rail will show. The one you've picked stays at the top of the window however far you scroll, and Save icon puts it on the folder. Use the default icon goes back to the plain folder.
A connected assistant can do the filing for you. Ask it to "put my Lisbon notes in a Travel folder" and it makes the folder and moves them. See Connecting an AI assistant.
Tags
Type # followed by a letter, at the start of a line or after a space, and the
word becomes a tag: #books, #work/invoices. #1 isn't a tag, and neither is
the # in a web address or in C#. Case doesn't matter, so #Books and
#books are one tag. The rail lists every tag you've used, with a count, and
clicking one shows those notes.
The note still holds exactly the words you typed. Exports, search, and the API
see #books, not a hidden field, so you lose nothing by taking your notes
somewhere else.
Colours in a note
Write a hex colour like #e8e8e8 in a note and it gets a small chip of that
colour beside it, which makes a note full of them readable at a glance.
The archive
Archive in a note's menu takes it out of the list without deleting it. Archived notes stay searchable, and they stay in the archive until you bring one back.
Last updated 24 September 2026