# Using nested tags

**URL:** https://discourse.notenik.app/t/using-nested-tags/35
**Category:** Favorite Features
**Tags:** hierarchy, fields
**Created:** [June 19, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/using-nested-tags/35 "2022-06-19T14:46:23Z")
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### Author: ![ThePrinter](https://discourse.notenik.app/user_avatar/discourse.notenik.app/theprinter/32/429_2.png) [@ThePrinter](https://discourse.notenik.app/u/ThePrinter)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.notenik.app/t/using-nested-tags/35/1 "2022-06-19T14:46:23Z")

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Here are some brief thoughts of mine on a feature that I have recently started to use: **nested tags**.

For those unfamiliar, they can be used simply by separating tag labels with a `.` (period) sign, e.g. `bread.sourdough`. This will not only make a tag in your collection for `bread`, but also make a tag for `sourdough`, wherein the note that these tags are affixed to will appear under `sourdough` (which will appear nested within the `bread` tag).

If categorization is your thing, this is very useful, especially is your working in a collection where any sort of categorized data needs to be more actively retrieved than if, for example, the category `bread` was instead recorded under a Note label like “Type” or “Category”. This structure is preferable when retrieval occurs when data is sorted through scripting and generating a desired output; or something like full-text searches in Notenik or elsewhere, I suppose.

However, I am of the view that nested tags serve as a good method to keep hierarchy/taxonomy in close proximity to the Notetaker within the Notenik interface.