Add tags to Notes and Reminders entries for smarter organization

The tags feature, introduced last year across all Apple platforms, lets you categorize loosely.

- GLENN FLEISHMAN

Hashtags became a useful way to track tweets across topics many years ago on Twitter. They spread to other social networks and into organizing apps. Apple brought hashtags (as plain old tags) to Notes and Reminders with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey.

You can use tags for ad-hoc categorization. Instead of building a set of hierarchical categories or having to create a bunch tags first that you then apply, you can simply type the hash or pound symbol (#) followed by text with no spaces. Typing this creates a tag with no further effort that Notes and Reminders can display in a Tags list in Reminders, and that you can use to build smart folders in Notes and smart lists in Reminders.