The central organization technique used in Tap is Folders. A folder is simply a word or series of characters, preceded by a slash, at the beginning of a note. See below:
The folder is the portion of the note highlighted yellow. As you can see, folders can also be nested. The folder “/biz” will appear as a sub-folder inside the “/good-ideas” folder.
See the section on finding notes in the Tap system guide.
Just as you might sort the files on your computer, you can organize your notes via project, interest, priority or anything else. Once you have placed a note in a folder you can navigate to that folder from within the Tap UI.
Tags add another organization layer to further enhance your notes. When to use a Folder and when to use a Tag really comes down to personal preference. Notes live in one folder (or sub-folder) but can contain as many tags as you like.
To create a tag, simply include a ”#” before any word. A tag can include ”_” and ”-” but not spaces. See below:
Tags are good for quickly describing a note. For example, you may want to save a web article to read later. You know the topic of the article, but maybe not what folder you’d like to use. Use the topic of the article to assign a few appropriate tags.
Pro Tip: You can use Spells to send yourself a collection of notes based on Tag or Folders. For example: by tagging notes with link “#to-read”, you can create a weekly list of articles to read sent to you on the weekend, when you’re most likely to do the reading.
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