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I really like this. I use DEVONthink currently for most of my notes. However, I really like the "daily" note nature of this. I have a couple of questions that would make this very useful and maybe change my current process.

First, can I tag parts of a daily note? My use-case would be tagging sections of a daily note related to a customer. In a given day, I may have 5 meetings with different customers. If I could tag each section with the customer name, it would help me in searching/reviewing those notes at a later time?

Second, can I add a Surface to the daily note? My desire is to be able to draw with the Apple Pencil on the iOS app on my daily note, just like if I added a Surface to the Page Tree.

Thanks and great job getting something fairly polished out the door.

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Thanks for the questions and ideas. We do support tags, which you can add inline using the format `#tagname`. This will create a Labels section in your sidebar which will show a list of all pages tagged with that. We've had many feature requests to make this more granular – to show blocks tagged with the labels – which we've been working on but haven't shipped yet. As for Surfaces on Daily Notes: I typically create a new Surface inline from Daily Notes by typing `[[Page Name`. This gives me a clean Surface to work on without messing with everything else going on in my day. It also generates a backlink for you from that Surface back to any days linking to it. Would love to hear if this helps your use cases at all. Thanks!

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Thanks for the info. I tried your suggestions:

Labels: That worked really well for my use case once I figured out the non-stated trick. I kept trying to inline a #label. It didn't work and I got frustrated until I realized I needed to be a Pro user to get this feature. So, you may want some messaging on that when someone tries to inline a label but they don't have the right plan.

Of course, if it could deep link into the daily note that would be more useful, but I think you have heard that from others. The current state doesn't stop me from using it but deep linking would be much more useful.

Surfaces: From an input perspective that actually works far better than I suspected. However, my concern would be having so many surface pages in the Page Tree. Myestimate is that I draw on about 3 out of 5 notes. So in a month, my Page Tree would be overwhelmed. Perhaps there is a way auto-place these into a folder.

Oh, I should have mentioned labels were Pro only. Sorry about that. We should probably message in the app when trying to do it as well. Good call.

Auto-placing pages is a pretty cool idea! We were considering making the Page Tree an opt-in area where you could just place pages you really need to build up in there and let you access everything else from the All Pages section.

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