Things
Tag colours and placement
How tags look and where they sit on a thing.
Why you'd care
Tags inline in the sentence read as part of the writing. Tags on their own line read as metadata. Which one you want depends on whether tags are part of how you write or a layer on top, and both are reasonable.
Placement
A tag can sit above the thing, below it, or inline where you typed it. Set it in Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Tag position. Plus
Inline keeps sentences natural. Above and below keep lines clean, and are better if you tag heavily.
Colours
Tags can carry colours, which is what makes a tagged list scannable at a glance rather than requiring reading. Colour is per tag, so it stays consistent everywhere that tag appears.
Ordering your tag list
Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Tag order controls the order tags are offered to you: most recently used, most used, or alphabetical. Recently used is the best default, because tagging tends to come in bursts on one topic.
Settings that change this
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Tag position places tags above, below or inline. Plus
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Tag order orders the tag picker.
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Show tags in side menu lists your tags in the side menu.
- Settings Lists & <i>Things</i> Reset tag counts resets the counts that drive "most used".
Tips
- Colour three tags, not thirty. Colour only helps while it is still a signal.
- If tags are cluttering your lists, move them below rather than abandoning them.