Organizing with tags

How to tag your posts and ideas in Wren, filter your tables by tag, and rename, merge, or delete tags to keep things tidy.

Tags are a simple, flexible way to organize your posts and ideas. They're free-form — you make up whatever labels make sense to you (like "client work", "Q3 launch", or "personal story") — and they're private to your account. The same tags work across both your Posts and your Ideas, so you can group related thinking no matter where it lives.

Adding a tag

You can tag a post or an idea right from its side panel:

1. Open a post or idea and find the tag editor.
2. Start typing a tag name.
3. As you type, Wren shows matching tags you've used before, plus a Create '...' option for a brand-new tag.
4. Pick an existing tag to attach it, or choose Create to make a new one. Either way it's added instantly.

You can add as many tags as you like to a single post or idea. Tags appear as small chips in the editor and in the Tags column of your tables.

Tags aren't case-sensitive — "Marketing" and "marketing" are treated as the same tag, so you won't end up with accidental duplicates.

Filtering by tag

Once you've tagged a few things, tags become a fast way to find them:

1. In the Posts or Ideas table, open the filter on the Tags column.
2. You'll see your tags listed, each with a count of how many items use it.
3. Select one or more tags. The table narrows to items that have any of the tags you picked.

The list updates as soon as you choose a tag. And if you save the view, your tag filter is saved along with it — so you can return to the same focused list anytime.

Renaming and merging tags

Tidied your thinking and want a cleaner label? You can rename a tag from its menu — open the ... menu next to a tag in the Tags filter, or right-click a tag chip, and choose Rename.

• Type the new name and the tag is updated everywhere it appears.
• If the new name matches a tag you already have, the two are merged into one. Everything that had the old tag now carries the existing tag, and the duplicate goes away. This is a handy way to clean up near-duplicates like "ai" and "AI".

Deleting a tag

To remove a tag entirely, open the same ... menu (or right-click the chip) and choose Delete. Wren first tells you how many posts and ideas currently use it, so you know what you're affecting. When you confirm, the tag is removed from all of those items.

Deleting a tag only removes the label — your posts and ideas themselves stay exactly as they are.

Tips

• Keep tags short and reusable so they're easy to pick from the autocomplete.
• Use a few broad tags (like a project or theme) rather than a unique tag per item. That's what makes filtering useful.
• Tag ideas as you capture them, so when you sit down to write you can filter straight to the theme you're in the mood for.

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