# Tags

Tags are a useful way to organize and filter your notes with `zk`, which supports most syntaxes:

* `#hashtags`
* `:colon:separated:tags:` ([opt-in](note-format.md))
* Bear's `#multi-word tags#` ([opt-in](note-format.md))
* YAML frontmatter (`tags` and `keywords` keys).

You can filter your notes by their tags using the `--tags` option, as demonstrated in [Searching and filtering notes](note-filtering.md).

```sh
$ zk list --tag "inbox OR todo, NOT done"
```

## Listing tags

You can list all the tags found in your notebook using `zk tag list`.

The following variables are available in the templates used when formatting tags, for example with `zk tag list --format <template>`.

| Variable     | Type   | Description                                    |
|--------------|--------|------------------------------------------------|
| `id`         | int    | Unique ID of this tag in the Notebook database |
| `name`       | string | Name of the tag                                |
| `note-count` | int    | Number of notes attached to this tag           |