Inline tags

Comments: 19

• 25 May, '20
  Bill Admin Merged

  Tagged tasks should be arriving alongside the master todo list in the next month-ish.

• 27 May, '20
  Aaron B

  Just to add to this. It would be really helpful if you do a daily note/journal format for your note-taking. As you work through the day just need to #client #meeting and whatever notes/tasks go with it. Would make finding the 'why' on the tag a lot more effective when cycling through lots of lengthy notes.

• 13 Aug, '20
  Chris D

  I would find this extremely useful also. Would be great to be able to add a tag to a task. An example would be David Allen's GTD principle of a task that can be completed in less than 2 minutes. A tag of "2:00" or "2Min" would help to quickly identify and/or sort those types of tasks when you have 5 minutes to spare.

• 26 Aug, '20
  Mike Merged

  I have not seen any information about task tags with the latest release of the Unified Task List. Is this still something that is coming?

• 05 Sep, '20
  Bill Admin Merged

  Hey Mike, yes you are correct, we didn't announce/launch this specifically. What we did provide through the Unified Task List is a means to filter all tasks by the tag hierarchy of the note in which they reside. Internally, this has fulfilled all our hopes and dreams with regards to being able to browse tasks by topic. However, I think this task will be more officially done when we implement Inline Tags, so an individual task can be tagged and browsed to regardless of the creation context.

• 10 Dec, '20
  Bill Admin

  As an update, we have discussed this feature and have a provisional plan to tackle it, but it's big and there are a few other big tasks in front of it. We'll get to it sometime in 2021.
  
  In the meantime, there are a couple options to consider.
  
  One option is to create notes with multiple tags and add tasks to those notes. For example, [[/todo/project-a/15 minute tasks]] would create a note with tag "todo/project-a". You can also add other tags to that note, like "todo/15-minute". Open the note (Quick Open -> "15" -> enter) and any task you add is tagged in your main "todo" parent tag (which can be marked a Shortcut) as both "project-a" and "15-minute." Consider applying multiple tag hierarchies to sift tasks into the contexts/work modes you operate from.
  
  The simpler option for GTD/quick tasks is to just mark tasks as "15 minute" (there's a hotkey for it) and sort your notes/tasks by Task Score. 15 minute tasks percolate to the top quickly :)

• 01 Jan
  Dean McGrath

  The issue with your suggestion is that in the same note I my have multiple tasks that have different contexts for execution. Any tag I add to a note will be applied globally to every task.
  Example:
  Task 1 Context = @computer
  Task 2 Context = @phone
  Your method would have both tasks show up in both contexts which is not the intended purpose of contexts.
  Unless I am missing something

• 01 Jan
  Spencer Ogden

  Another vote brainwashed by the Roam approach of Tags=Links. I find it very elegant, and nice to have a subtle format difference to separate purpose, but essentially have the same functionality underlying each.
  
  As an additional suggestion for those looking to do this now, just use a quick [[ and a one word, or no space link as a tag. Doesn't show exactly how you might expect, and not great for searching, but not bad.

• 05 Jan
  Erik Merged

  How would that work with Task Shortcuts? For example you have the shortcut Tasks/external but inside individual tasks are tagged with something else.

• 05 Jan
  Erik

  I'm a little confused on the implementation of this. Would inline tags apply to a line, a header, or still the entire note?

• 14 Jan
  Aurelius

  I think it would be useful to have tags and links merged. As it stands, I often find myself doubling up: adding the page link within the note text, then adding a tag for the exact same concept. Tags are better for search and filtering, but page links come with the benefit of backlinks. I tend to make use of both features, so it would be more efficient to have them combined in most cases.

• 14 Feb
  Gadwood

  Maybe this two feature request should be considered when planing this inline tag feature. The way of thinking is close to a certain point
  https://amplenote.featureupvote.com/suggestions/14900/allow-aliases-automatic-text-substitution

• 14 Feb
  Karl

  I like the idea of inline tagging especially if you can search from a # and @.

• 22 Apr
  Justin Maxwell

  Coming from roam this is a near dealbreaker for me. Why bother having roam import if you drop a huge part of the architecture?

• 23 Apr
  A. Dellinger Merged

  Put more than one one tag on a note.

• 04 May
  Lucian Admin Merged

  "Tag Tasks" (suggested by A. Dellinger on 2021-04-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 26 May
  Thomas

  Let me add the suggestion to assign notes to tags by drag&drop on the left pane.
  
  Both directions could work:
  * Drag the note to the tag on the left pane (with auto-expansion if collapsed), or
  * Drag the tag from the left pane to the note.

• 03 Jun
  28x44

  Linking to another note kinda solves this anyway.

• 18 Aug
  Bill Admin

  "Add "task tags"" (suggested by Brian Cohen on 2020-05-19), including upvotes (36) and comments (6), was merged into this suggestion.