Tag a sentence, not the whole note
August 3 2026 | Issue 106 | Link to this issue | Subscribe
Hi Reader –
Evernote has brought a meaningful tag innovation into the note editor, and the tag users in my Academy are loving it.
The feature is called inline tags, and it works on desktop, web, and mobile.
Historically, tags have been added to notes at the bottom, where multiple tags display in alphabetical order horizontally.
This still works. But now, you can also add a tag to a specific spot inside the note body.
The tag still gets added to the tag area in the footer (and sorted alphabetically), and it also appears where you placed it inside the body of the note. And, you can assign the same tag to multiple locations in the same note.
Let's consider a use case for this inspired by one of my Academy members, Susan.
Inline Tag Use Case
Susan suggested that if you were using Evernote for a research project and you need to fact check something, you create a Fact Check tag.
Let's say you're deep in a research note and you write a statement you're fairly confident about but haven't actually verified – a date, a figure, a quote you're working from memory. Instead of stopping to chase it down and losing your momentum, you type #, choose your Fact Check tag, and keep writing.
Three paragraphs later you hit another one. Same thing. And again further down. By the time you finish the session, that note might carry five Fact Check tags, each one sitting next to the specific claim it belongs to.
Down in the footer, Fact Check appears once, tucked in alphabetically with everything else. That's your note-level flag: there's unverified material in here.
Now the part that makes it worth doing.
When you're ready for a verification pass, you search the Fact Check tag and get back every note with outstanding claims in it. Open one, and instead of rereading the whole thing trying to remember what worried you, you scan for the tags. Each one puts you on the exact sentence.
Verify the claim, delete that tag. Move to the next one, delete that one.
When you pull the last Fact Check tag out of the note body, the tag comes off the note entirely – it disappears from the footer too, and the note stops turning up in your Fact Check search. You don't have to remember to untag it. The note takes itself off the list the moment the work is actually finished.
That's the difference. Under the old model you could assign the note the Fact Check tag and that was the whole story: one flag for the entire note. You'd know something in there needed checking, but not what, and not where. If four things needed checking, you had no way to say so. Now the tag knows where it belongs, and it clears out when there's nothing left to do.
This is just one example of the workflows inline tags are opening up.
🧠 Academy Members: Ground yourself in tag fundamentals in the Masterclass: Tags training. Then join the use case discussion, where members are working through limitations and opportunities for putting inline tags to work in their own workflows.
More tag innovation to come?
Evernote has been asking those of us with the Evernote Certified Expert designation a lot of questions about tags lately – how people use them, what's missing, what a better tag view would look like. Historically that kind of sustained curiosity has been a decent leading indicator of the development roadmap. I can't predict what ships or when, but if I had to guess, I'd expect more tag refinement over the months ahead.
Have you been inspired to try inline tags yet? If you have a unique workflow that uses them, hit reply and let me know.
Cheers to your productivity –
Stacey
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