Organizing with folders and tags
You get both. They’re good at different things.
Folders
Section titled “Folders”Ordinary folders on disk. Make them in Pellet or in Finder — it’s the same thing either way, and Pellet notices immediately.
A note lives in exactly one folder, which makes folders good for questions with one answer: is this work or personal?
Drag notes between folders in the sidebar. Right-click a folder to rename, move or delete it.
Type # followed by a word anywhere in a note. A note can carry as many tags as you like, which makes tags good for questions with several answers at once: this is about a client, and it’s a meeting, and it’s urgent.
Tags nest with slashes:
That gives you work, work/clients and work/clients/norvale as a tree in the sidebar, with counts that roll up. Click any level to see everything beneath it.
Which to use
Section titled “Which to use”A rough rule that holds up: folders for where something belongs, tags for what it’s about. If you find yourself wanting to put one note in two folders, that’s a tag.
Don’t over-plan it. A flat vault with good links and a search box is easier to live with than a filing system you have to think about every time you write something down.
Gallery view
Section titled “Gallery view”If your vault has a lot of canvases, drawings or PDFs, the note list can show thumbnails instead of rows — the toggle is in the note list header. It’s one setting for the whole vault, so a folder never surprises you by looking different, and there are three tile sizes.