Multi-word tags

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Yury Molodtsov

• July 20, 2020 07:25

I'd like to use multi-word tags in my work. A number of note-taking apps support them, for instance, this is the syntax required in Bear:

> If you need multi-word tags, wrap them in hashtags, like #star wars#

 

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • July 21, 2020 01:17

  In the meantime (immediately), you could use:

  • #star-wars 
  • #star_wars

   

   

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  Yury Molodtsov

  • July 21, 2020 07:39

  That's what I'm doing, just a bit unnatural and have to remember the convention if I ever search for them :)

   

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  a g capey

  • July 21, 2020 10:32

  But a search for either "star" or "wars" would find it. So you don't have to remember the exact phrase.

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  Jim

  • July 23, 2020 16:57
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  To do this I've just capitalized the first letter in each word.  I do this in all apps/websites that use tags.

  Ex: #StarWars #SomethingALittleLonger

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  Max Yakin Bozek

  • July 30, 2020 11:50

  Same as James, I use #camelCase for two-word tags, and it seems to be the natural syntax for tags for me.

  The only difference being —as I never use more than two words in a tag—

  I use #upperCase for the first letter of the second word.

  The first letter is always #lowerCase, and that applies for one-word and two-word tags

  In this case, it would be:   #starWars  #webDesign  #workLog  #toDo  #latinAmerica  #mentalModels  #etcetera

  I do this in all platforms that use tags, to be consistent; as most of them don't allow spaces or special characters.

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  Kristian Voss Bjerre

  • January 24, 2022 15:01

  Still the only way?

  Is there a hidden character that I could use to include 2 words in the same tag? Right now I use #hi-again or #hi_again, but when i copy paste the text to official mails etc. it stands out (# is bad enough xD)

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • January 24, 2022 15:36

  Hi @kristian,

  This is not on the way :-( 

  We don't have plans to have multi-word tags separated by a space. Would you be able to show an app that does that?

  You could have multi-word links, but that's another dynamic 

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  Kristian Voss Bjerre

  • January 24, 2022 19:57

  No problem :) I have no other app example. I guess I had hoped there's was a unicode character/smiley/something that would not register as a "space", but visually be seen as such :)
  It's by no means a necessary feature :)

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