Hejour organizes notes the only way time does: one page per day. That model answers most questions instantly — what did I do Tuesday? — but there's a second kind of question it used to answer slowly: which days did this project touch? A project, a person, a recurring meeting isn't a day. It's a thread running through days.
Hejour 1.7.4 adds #tags. Type a hash in front of a word — #hejour, #interviews, #side-project — anywhere in any day's note, and that's it. The word tints green, and the topic quietly becomes a thread.
Pull the thread from ⌘P
Press ⌘P and type #: every tag you've ever written appears, ranked by how many days it shows up on. Pick one — or type it out — and the list becomes every line that mentioned it, newest day first. Hit return on a line and you're standing on that day. The whole history of a project, three keystrokes away.
No tag manager, because there's nothing to manage
Tags in Hejour aren't records in a database. They're the text itself — a hash and a word, sitting in your note like any other word. Nothing to create, rename, file into a hierarchy, or clean up. Delete the word, the tag is gone. Export your notes and the tags travel with them, because they were never anywhere else. #Hejour and #hejour count as the same thread,#meeting works next to a dozen other words on the line, and tags speak any language — accented characters included.
Days and tags are a good pair
Tag-first apps make you decide where a note lives before you've written it. Hejour never asks — everything lands on today, and a tag is something you sprinkle while writing, only when a topic deserves a thread. Some days you'll tag nothing. Then three weeks later someone asks “when did we decide that?” and ⌘P #hejour answers before they finish the sentence.
Tags are free for everyone, in Hejour 1.7.4 — free download, notarized by Apple. Tag one thing today; your future self does the rest.