Although you can start writing as soon as you create the note, it is recommended that you give the note a title to make it easier to find in the future.

# Add or edit the title
>[!Note]The default title is "Untitled"
>HackMD will automatically take the first 30 characters as the title, which might remind you what the note is about.

### 1. Click the navigation bar

To add or edit the note title, just click on the title on the navigation bar.


### 2. Edit title with note setting

Or you can click on the <i class="fa fa-info-circle" aria-hidden="true"></i> icon, which brings up **Note settings**.


# Tags

## Add tags
Click the tag icon to bring up the tag menu or click on the <i class="fa fa-info-circle" aria-hidden="true"></i> icon on the navigation bar, which brings up Note settings.

The tags in the notes in this workspace are ready to be applied.
- Add them by clicking on the tag (again to remove).
- You may want to drag a tag to change its order.
- Hold <kbd>Cmd</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> to select or remove multiple tags.

## Change tags order

Drag a tag to change its order in your note. The order of tags determine how they were shown in your workspace.

>[!Tip]Press <kbd>Cmd</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> to choose/remove multiple tags.
>

## Create new tags
When there is no tag in the workspace, then there may be no ready tag in the menu.

- If you'd like to create new tags, just type anything and press <kbd>Enter</kbd> / <kbd>Return</kbd> to create a tag
- Press <kbd>Esc</kbd> or click other areas of the editor to exit the tag menu.

| Press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to create tags | Spaces, dash, and emoji are supported in tags |
| -------- | -------- |
|  | |

## Creative tags

You can use space,symbol,emoji while creating new tags.


## Remove tags

Removing tags removes them from the current note and does not affect other notes with the same tags.
- Click the <i class="fa fa-times" aria-hidden="true"></i> to remove tags.
- Press <kbd>Backspace</kbd> to remove the last tag.


## Show or hide tags in View mode

1. Open Note settings here

2. Turn on "Show tags in view mode"

3. Tags are shown in View mode

## Sort notes for personal/team spaces.

You can adjust the sorting order of notes in your personal/team space by using tags.

By switching to 【Show Categories】 in the 【Personal/Team Space】, HackMD will sort your notes according to the tags they have.

>[!Note]The sorting order of notes is based on the first tag that is added.


# Next
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How to edit metadata of a note
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