Tags

Tags are how you organize your bucket: type #garden or #podcast anywhere in an idea and it becomes a tag. This page covers what you can do with tags once you have them. For typing tags, autocomplete and typo hints, see Capturing ideas.

#The tag cloud

Profile has a Tags section with every tag on your active ideas, most used first, each with its count. The header above it sums things up, for example "128 ideas · 23 tags".

• Tap a tag to open Find showing the ideas with that tag.
• Tags that only appear on archived ideas aren't in the cloud, and archived ideas don't count. Ideas in the trash never count.

#Tag colors

Every tag starts with the default violet look. You can give any tag one of eight colors: Violet, Blue, Teal, Green, Amber, Orange, Red and Pink.

To change a tag's color:

1. Right-click the tag (desktop), or long-press it (touch). With a keyboard, focus the tag and press the Menu key or ⇧ F10.
2. Pick a color. Default goes back to the standard look.

In the menu, the arrow keys move between colors, Enter or Space picks one, and Esc closes it.

This works almost anywhere a tag appears: on idea cards, in the Profile tag cloud, in the Filter picker and filter chips, in tag suggestions and on tags in the text box as you type. Hovering a tag shows the hint "Right-click or long-press to change color".

Colors are saved to your account, so they show on all your devices, and connected assistants can see them too. Changing a color needs a connection.

#Merge duplicate tags

Over time you may end up with #side-project and #sideproject, or #book and #books. Merging retags every idea at once.

#Suggested duplicates

When some of your tags look alike, Profile shows them under Look like duplicates, in groups. Tags count as likely duplicates when they:

• are the same apart from case, - and _ (#side-project, #side_project, #sideproject)
• differ only by a plural s or es (#book and #books, #box and #boxes)
• are one typo apart, like a wrong, missing, extra or swapped letter (#recipes and #recipse), for tags of 4 or more letters
• are two typos apart, for longer tags of 8 or more letters

For each group:

• The most used tag is selected as the one to keep. Tap another tag in the group to keep that name instead.
• Choose Merge to retag every idea with the name you kept.
• Choose Dismiss if they really are different tags (#art and #arts, say). That group won't be suggested again on this device.

#Merge any tags

To merge tags that weren't suggested, for example #garden and #allotment:

1. In the Tags section on Profile, choose Merge tags.
2. Tap the tags to merge (at least two).
3. Under Keep one name:, tap the name to keep. The most used one is picked for you. The bar tells you how many ideas will change, for example "Up to 9 ideas get #garden."
4. Choose Merge into #garden.

Cancel (or Esc) leaves without merging, and Clear starts the selection over.

#What a merge does

• Every idea with a merged tag gets the kept tag instead. Archived ideas are included; ideas in the trash are left alone.
• A toast confirms it, for example "Merged 12 ideas into #garden", with Undo, which puts every idea's tags (and the tag colors) back.
• Colors: the merged-away tags lose theirs. The kept tag keeps its own color, or takes the most recently chosen color of the merged tags if it had none.
• If an automation watches the kept tag, active ideas that newly get that tag can trigger it, just as if you'd added the tag yourself.

Merging needs a connection.

#Tags with automations

A tag that an enabled automation watches ("An idea gets a tag") is drawn with a gradient, so you can tell at a glance that adding it will do something. The gradient is in the tag's own color, or teal to violet if it has the default look. Hover it to see "Has an automation".

You'll see this on idea cards, in the Profile tag cloud, in the Filter picker and in tag suggestions. When you turn the automation off or delete it, the tag goes back to normal.

#Done markers

Connected AI assistants can ask Idea Bucket about a whole project or topic (a tag). As part of that answer, Idea Bucket points out the tags that likely mean "done" in your bucket, so an assistant can tell what shipped from what was just put away.

No tag means "done" by default, not even #done or #shipped. A tag counts as a likely done marker when:

• an enabled automation archives ideas that get that tag, or
• at least 3 ideas carry it, at least 80% of them are archived, and that is at least 25 points higher than the share of archived ideas among your other tags.

Each marker comes with its evidence, for example "14 of 15 ideas with #shipped are archived (8% of ideas with other tags)". Archived ideas that carry a marker are reported as done; other archived ideas are reported as closed, which might mean dropped.

Done markers are worked out fresh each time an assistant asks. Nothing is written back: your ideas and tags are never changed. See MCP tools.

#Typo hints

When you type a tag that's very close to one you already use, for example #podcst when you have #podcast, Idea Bucket asks "Did you mean #podcast?" with Fix and Keep #podcst. It uses the same rules as the duplicate suggestions above. See Capturing ideas.