# Bear notes tag structure

**URL:** <https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/bear-notes-tag-structure/489>\
**Category:** Workbook/Workshop\
**Created:** [June 15, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/bear-notes-tag-structure/489 "2022-06-15T15:43:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![josh](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/josh)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/bear-notes-tag-structure/489/1 "2022-06-15T15:43:55Z")

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Hi all, very new to this system and trying to settle on a naming structure. I am consultant, and will be using the following structure:

- 100-199 Personal Projects
  - 100 Admin
    - 10-19…

- 200-299 Client Projects
  - 200 Client A Project 1
    - 01-09 Meta
    - 10-19 Admin

  - 201 Client B Project 1  
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Does anyone have experience setting up the J.D system in Bear? Struggling with the best way to utilize tags in place of a folder structure.

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**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/bear-notes-tag-structure/489/2 "2022-06-17T01:14:28Z")

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That seems solid as a start.

I use Bear and I only use tags for my projects. So [104 Learn with Lucy](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/johnny-made-a-new-thing-learn-with-lucy/485) is tagged `#104 LwL#`. (I like how they’ve done tags so you can have a space in the tag name.)

My use-case is then that I sit down, I’m in a mode, typically in a project, so I’ll click that tag, and it’s like Bear just became that project. I then use the standard filter to find what I want.

I like that when you’re filtered, creating a new note will automatically add that filter.

I create all notes with the full PRO.AC.ID number so they end up looking like this:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-06-17 at 11.14.12](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ed12b61b7470bff3ba920ce7915a3fcde13217f1.png)

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**Author:** ![josh](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/josh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/bear-notes-tag-structure/489/3 "2022-06-20T15:54:19Z")

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That makes sense! For individual notes in Bear, would you ever use the same PRO.AC.ID multiple times?

For example, in a folder structure, 104.23.21 is a folder that can hold multiple documents. With Bear, or any note-taking tool, would a note go at the ID or “document” level?

- note: 104.23.21 Errors
- note: 104.23.21 Something
- note: 104.23.21 More Things

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**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/bear-notes-tag-structure/489/4 "2022-06-21T00:21:08Z")

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One ID, one note. The note is about a particular thing. In my example, this is errors in Excel.

Now that note might be quite long, and have a bunch of headers, but I 100% stick to one note per ID.