Does Tolaria support tags?

[apastuszak]

I heavily use tags in my note-taking. I'm looking through the documentation and I don't see any support for tags.

[farfromexact]

Tags would be useful for a note-taking workflow, but I would decide the syntax and indexing semantics before adding a UI button. Markdown headings already use #, so a tag syntax such as #project or a frontmatter list needs a clear rule for when it is a tag and when it is a heading.

A practical first version could:

• parse tags from the note body and optional frontmatter
• normalize case and whitespace while preserving the display form
• provide an AND or OR filter in search
• keep a tag index that updates when a note is renamed or edited
• support tag links and a list of notes using the tag
• define whether tags inside code blocks and quoted text are ignored

The data model should store the note ID and normalized tag separately from the visible text, so renaming a tag does not require rewriting every note at once. If Tolaria is intentionally keeping the core small, an indexed search query or frontmatter-only version would be a good incremental option. The documentation could then state clearly whether tags are unsupported, planned, or only available through a plugin.

[LucaRonin]

Actually other markdown tools use tags freely with the rule that headings have a space after #, while tags do not, so it's not a matter of formatting

Tags are not supported directly for now, might be in the future but they are not a priority — you can simulate tags by creating a type "Tag" and adding relationships to these in the respective notes (that's what I do with Topics, for example)