# Using Tags

Any entry can have as many tags as you want associated with it. Tags are words or short phrases that describe the entry. For an entry about taking a dog for a walk, you might give it the tags "dog" and "walk".

There are a few different ways to add a tag to an entry. You can use the "Change Tags" item in the Entry menu bar to see the tags for an entry, add a tag, or remove a tag. You may also see a Tags field in the Info bar in the main window right under Topic. If not, you can customize the Info Bar to add it. That will show your tags and let you modify them directly in the main window. The Inspector also has the same field for tags.

To change the tags for multiple entries at once, select all the entries you want to modify and use the "Change Tags" menu item. You can also use the Batch Change menu item to change multiple things about all of the selected entries.

You can use tags to organize and find entries fast. You can type a tag into the search field in the toolbar to find all entries with that tag. You can also click on the small arrow next to each tag in the Info Bar and Inspector to start a search directly. The View menu also has a "View Mode" submenu that has a "Tags" item. Select this to change the Sidebar to display all entries organized by tag.

When exporting an entry to the Finder, the resulting file should have the same tags as the entry in MacJournal. Importing files from the Finder into MacJournal should also import the tags from the file. However, modifying the tags in the file after importing into MacJournal will not change the tags in MacJournal. The file will need to be re-imported or the tags updated in MacJournal to reflect that change. See also how MacJournal stores its data for information on tags within the MacJournal data file.

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