> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.sonto.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tags

> Organise and focus across everything with tags

A tag is a label you put on work to pull it together *across* projects, areas, and dates — so you can
focus on everything that shares it, wherever it lives. This walkthrough creates a couple of tags and
puts them straight to work. Watch below, or follow the steps.

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<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a couple of tags">
    Open **Settings** and add two tags to start with. There's no fixed set — you decide what they mean.
    Two that earn their keep:

    * `office` — work you can only do in a certain place.
    * `waiting` — anything stuck until someone else gets back to you.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Tag a project, then a single task">
    Pick a project — say *Kitchen renovation*. Tag the whole project `office` and everything in it
    travels with that tag. Or tag just one task, *Order cabinet samples*, with `office`, because that's
    the one thing you'll do from your desk.

    <Tip>
      While naming a task, type `@` and the tag name to tag it inline — and create the tag on the spot
      if it's new. See [Natural language input](/reference/natural-language-input).
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Filter your Day">
    Schedule that task for today, then open the **filter bar** on your Day and pick `office`. The view
    narrows to just your office work, and everything else steps out of the way.

    <Info>
      A tag doesn't schedule a task. To see a tagged task on your Day, schedule it for that day first,
      then filter.
    </Info>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Combine tags to focus harder">
    Add `waiting` to *Order cabinet samples* as well. Now it's both `office` (where you'll do it) and
    `waiting` (blocked on a reply). Filter any view by `waiting` to round up everything that's stuck, in
    one place.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Make it stick

Two touches keep you in the flow once you're filtering:

* A filter is **sticky** for a couple of hours, so you can settle into one tag without reapplying it.
* Each view keeps **its own** filter — your Week can show `waiting` while your Day shows `office`.

## Where to next

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  <Card title="Tags reference" icon="tag" href="/reference/tags">
    The precise rules — every control, and where tags live.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/reference/search">
    Another way to find work across Sonto.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
