Tagging of People

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  zian92 · Member · January 1, 2026 at 4:33 pm

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  Hey,
  I often refer to friends and family in my notes and would like to link them and also search for entries where I refer to them.
  I imagine that similar to to Tags, maybe distinguished by some icon that it is person.

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  mikerockwell · Staff · January 5, 2026 at 7:42 pm

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  Were you thinking that this would be a separate feature from tags? Or more of an enhancement to the existing tags feature where you could designate a tag as a person tag? I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on this!

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  zian92 · Member · January 13, 2026 at 4:10 pm

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  Hey @mikerockwell, I would probably see it as a separate feature that behaves a lot like tags. E.g. I would like to reference people in my entries as well as add/see them for each entry, and be able to see all people I ever mentioned and filter entries where a person was mentioned. At the same time, I would like it highlighted differently so it is easily distinguishable from tags.

  Current workaround with only tags could be [#p_JohnSmith], but that’s hard to distinguish from all the other tags that are not persons and serve a very different purpose.

  Does that make it clearer? How it’s implemented or included in the existing apps/UI is certainly up to you :D

  While writing those down, same could also work well for locations, but that is an different topic.

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  staff-frank · Staff · January 16, 2026 at 11:49 am

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  Thanks for taking the time to share this detailed suggestion. I’ve added your idea to our list of feature requests for the team to review.

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  stevekoterski · Member · January 19, 2026 at 9:53 pm

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  You could do that with tags and have a visual differentiation between person-tags and regular tags. In my favorite to-do app, 2Do, I use emojis in tags to categorize and set certain classes of tags off from others.

  For example:

  🤠-calamity-jane

  🤠-wild-bill-hickock

  -curly-joe-clanton

  And even though the emoji is at the start of the tag name, you can still search tags based on text farther into the tag name, like “Hickok”.

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  primalisten · Member · May 7, 2026 at 1:37 pm

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  I’m upvoting this as well. A dedicated “People” section would be a great addition.
  At the moment I solve this using tags, so IF you decide to implement a people section then I would like an option to easily convert my “people tags” to names in said section.

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  staff-frank · Staff · May 13, 2026 at 9:55 am

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  @primalisten Thank you for your vote! I can’t make any promises about timelines, but your feedback is noted.

  In the meantime, the best workaround is to use tags with a consistent naming convention to represent people. A few approaches the community has found useful:

  • A prefix like #p_ or #person_ to distinguish people tags from other tags (e.g., #p_JohnSmith)
  • An emoji prefix to make them visually pop in the tag list (e.g., 👥 Wife)
  • Searching or filtering by that tag across all journals to pull up every entry mentioning that person