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# Tags

The tags you add and the tags Relic adds, the tags sheet behind the # button, renaming or deleting a tag, and tagging several items at once.

Updated 10 September 2026 · Every platform

## [Your tags and Relic's tags](#two-kinds)

Every item can carry two sorts of tag. The ones you write are yours: project names, clients, whatever you sort by. The ones Relic adds describe what the thing is, like _url_, _receipt_ or _screenshot_. Both are searchable and both show under the item in the list.

Two rows of tag chips. The first row, labelled YOUR TAGS, shows maplewood, travel and taxes in gold. The second, labelled AUTO, shows receipt, screenshot and url in grey. Yours are gold. The ones Relic worked out are grey.

The automatic ones come from the content itself. [Collections](https://relic.space/help/collections) explains the chips built on top of them.

## [The tags sheet](#tags-sheet)

The **#** button in the header opens every tag you have. It is titled **Tags**, or **Tags · Vault** when the Vault scope is on, so the counts match what you are looking at.

* A **Filter tags…** box at the top, focused and ready, for when the list is long.
* **YOUR TAGS**, most used first, with a gold **\+ New tag** button sitting inline as the first chip.
* **AUTO** underneath, when Relic has added any.

The line along the bottom says what the chips do:

Tap to filter (tap again to unselect) · long-press to rename or delete.

Picking a tag applies the filter and closes the sheet, so you land straight in the results. The tag stays visible as a gold chip above the list and comes off when you click it.

**\+ New tag** makes a tag before any item has it, so it is ready in the suggestions next time you edit something. Spaces become hyphens and everything is stored in lower case.

## [Renaming or deleting a tag](#rename-or-delete)

Long-press a chip in the sheet (right-click on a computer) and it turns into a small editor. Type a new name to rename the tag everywhere it is used, or delete it to take it off every item at once. Neither one touches the items themselves.

One tag will not budge. _secret_ is the tag Relic puts on things it has masked, like an API key or a card number. Renaming or removing it would quietly unmask the item, so it has a small lock instead of an x and the editor never opens for it. Everything else is yours to rearrange.

## [Tagging one item](#in-the-editor)

Double-click a row to open it. The tags field holds the item's current tags, each with an x to take it off. The hint under the fields says it plainly:

Title, note and tags are all searchable. Type a tag and press Enter.

Under the field, **YOUR TAGS · TAP TO ADD** lists tags you already use that this item does not have yet. One tap adds one. In the editor, the _secret_ tag shows a lock rather than an x, for the same reason as in the sheet.

## [Tagging several at once](#bulk)

Select several rows (Ctrl-click, or Shift-click for a run) and the control row turns into a bar with the number selected and a set of buttons. Press **Tag** and a small dialog opens, titled **Tag 4 items** with your count in it. Type a name, press **Apply**, and the tag lands on all of them.

Relic confirms with a toast that names the tag, and the new tag is added to your list so it turns up in the suggestions from then on. Items that already had it are left alone.

## [Searching by tag](#searching)

Anywhere you can type, _tag:travel_ narrows to that tag. Repeat it for several at once, and mix it with words, dates and the rest. The match has to be the whole tag, so _tag:ip_ never picks up _zip_. [Search operators](https://relic.space/help/search-syntax) has the full list, and [Searching your vault](https://relic.space/help/search) covers the window around it.

Related

[Search words and operatorsFind](https://relic.space/help/search-syntax)[Collection chipsFind](https://relic.space/help/collections)[Searching your vaultFind](https://relic.space/help/search)[The Relic windowGet started](https://relic.space/help/the-popup)