Bear supports adding tags to notes, though I only make limited use of that. Instead, I prefer to organize my notes through links.

I use tags for the following purpose:

• #public indicates that a note is to be published on my web site.

• #confidence/low and #confidence/high indicates how confident I am in the contents of the note. Low-confidence notes are excluded from search indexes, but are not visually different from other notes.

• #wip indicates that the note needs revision. There is some overlap with #confidence/low.

• #template indicates that the note is a template, rather than a proper note in and of itself. The only template I have is a week­notes entry template.

• #week­notes indicates that this note is a week­notes entry. I am not entirely sure this is the approach I want to use long-term, but it works for now.

Todo: Document other metadata (slug, aliases)

Examples

There are ideas from Building a Second Brain.¹¹1 Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (Atria Books, 2022). 

Examples for specific use cases

Examples of personalized tags for specific use cases:

Tags for scriptwriting:

• C = description of a Character who could be used in a story.
• L = interesting or visually interesting Location.
• O = curious or evocative Object.
• S = loaded or revealing Situation.
• A = unusual or revealing Act.
• T = any intriguing Theme that is embodied in life.

Tag according to final product:

• Presentation
• Essay
• Report
• Website
• Project plan
• Meeting Agenda
• Budget

Tag according to kind of information:

• Argument
• Theory
• Framework
• Evidence
• Claim
• Counterpoint
• Question

Examples for tracking progress

Tag according to role:

• meeting notes
• timeline
• budget
• decision
• action
• idea
• objective

Tag according to stage:

• planned
• in process
• waiting for approval
• reviewed
• approved
• on hold
• finished