Tags Explorer & Sidebar

Organize StrataNote notes with #tag syntax and inline chips, browse the dedicated Tags sidebar, and map tag relationships on the interactive graph.

StrataNote treats tags as a first-class way to organize notes across folders. You can write tags inside your notes, browse them from a dedicated sidebar tab, preview them on document cards, and see tag-based relationships on the interactive graph.

Adding Tags to a Note

Add tags anywhere inside a note using the standard #tag syntax:

# Weekly Review

Notes from this week's planning session.

#project/alpha #status/in-progress #team

Tags support nested hierarchies with the / separator (for example, #project/alpha), so you can group related tags without flattening them into a single namespace.

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Tags Sidebar Tab

Open the Tags tab in the left sidebar to browse every tag detected across your vault.

• Tag list: All tags are listed alphabetically with a badge showing how many notes reference each tag.
• Nested groups: Tags with / in their name are grouped into a collapsible tree so you can drill down from a parent tag (e.g. project) into its children (project/alpha, project/beta).
• Click to filter: Selecting a tag filters the current view to notes that reference it.

Screenshot: Tags Sidebar Tab

Interface Preview: The left sidebar with the Tags tab active, showing a collapsible list of tags with note counts. Selecting project/alpha filters the note list to matching entries.

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Inline Tag Chips

When you open a note in preview mode, tags parsed from the note body are rendered as inline chips at the top of the document. Chips are clickable — selecting one jumps you back to the Tags sidebar with that tag pre-selected, making it easy to pivot between related notes.

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Searching by Tag

The search panel supports a strict tag filter in addition to full-text and semantic modes. Prefix your query with # to match only tags:

#project/alpha

Results are limited to notes that actually contain the tag, without matching similar words in the note body. See Searching the Knowledge Base for the other search modes.

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Tags on the Graph

The interactive graph maps tag relationships alongside Wikilinks and semantic similarity. Notes that share a tag are connected by a lightweight tag edge, so clusters of tagged content emerge naturally next to the existing link and similarity clusters. See Interactive Connections Graph for filtering and layout controls.