Docs/Right sidebar/Tags

Tags

Tags are short labels you add to a note to group it with others on the same theme. This panel in the right sidebar shows the tags on the note you're currently reading, arranged as a tidy tree so a tag like #project/minerva/docs reads as nested rows instead of one long string. It's a read-only view — to change a note's tags, you edit the note.

Two Tags panels, two jobs

Minerva has a Tags panel on each side, and they answer different questions. The one in the left sidebar is a project-wide list of every tag you've used anywhere, alphabetical and with counts — good for browsing your whole vocabulary and jumping to any tagged note. This one, in the right sidebar, is about the note in front of you: it lists only the tags that note carries. Switch to another note and its contents change to match.

Reading the tree

Tags with slashes in them — #area/health, #project/minerva/docs — read as paths, and the panel nests them accordingly. If a note carries only #foo/bar/baz, you'll still see foo and foo/bar as parent rows above it, standing in as the branches that hold the tree together.

Expand / collapse
Click the arrow on any row that has children to fold or unfold that branch. The panel remembers which branches you've opened.
Click a tag
Lists every note and source that carries that exact tag, shown beneath the tree — a quick way to jump from the note you're reading to everything else that shares one of its tags.
Click a parent tag
Lists everything tagged at or below that branch — for example, every note under #area/health no matter how specific the tag goes. Handy for a broad sweep across a whole theme.
Highlighted rows
Rows for tags the note actually carries are tinted so they stand out from the parent rows that only exist to organize the tree.
Filter box
Type in the search box to narrow the tree to matching tags. A match stays visible along with the branches above it, so you can see where it sits.
The right sidebar's Tags panel open on a note with a nested tag, showing the branch expanded, the note's own tag highlighted, and a list beneath the tree of other notes and sources that share that tag.
Screenshot — Tags panel for a note with nested tags

Adding and removing tags

This panel only reads — there's no box to type into. You tag a note by editing the note itself, and Minerva recognizes tags written two ways; the panel shows both together.

Inline hashtags
Type #tagname anywhere in the note's text. It's picked up as a tag as soon as you save.
A tags list in properties
Add tags to the tags: list in the note's properties at the top. Many notes are tagged only this way, with nothing typed inline.
Removing a tag
Delete the hashtag text or the properties entry and save. The panel simply stops showing a tag once the note no longer contains it.

The tree updates the moment you save — no manual refresh needed. For browsing tags across your whole project, see Left sidebar → Tags.