Backlink: §2020-02-15-1247 Welcome

Tags are a way to quickly retrieve a selection of notes, for example with zetteldeft-search-tag or by generating lists of links (§2020-04-17-1608).

Tags can appear anywhere in your note. To be found, tags should start with # or @ and can contain letterse, numbers, underscores and dashes. To customize this, set zetteldeft-tag-regex.

See a tag you want to search for? Hit C-c d t (for zetteldeft-avy-tag-search) and make your choice. Or launch a search for a tag by interactively selecting it from a list with C-c d / (for zetteldeft-search-tag).

To generate an overview of all tags in your Zetteldeft, use C-c d T (for zetteldeft-tag-buffer).

To quickly insert a tag, use zetteldeft-tag-insert (C-c d # by default). It will prompt for a tag to be added at the end of the first line that starts with zetteldeft-tag-line-prefix (which is # Tags by default). If, however, this variable is set to nil, tags will be inserted at point. Want to insert a tag at point even with zetteldeft-tag-line-prefix configured? Use zetteldeft-tag-insert-at-point.

Easily remove a tag from the current note with zetteldeft-tag-remove (C-c d $ by default). It will prompt for a tag used in the current note, and remove it (or rather, the first occurence in the current note).

A note on customization: variable zetteldeft-tag-regex is used to find tags, zetteldeft-tag-prefix for inserting tags. To fully customize tag searching and inserting behaviour to your liking, you might have to modify both.