Second Brain / Industry term
Concept tags
Concept tags are short topic labels attached to a record that name what it is about, giving each record a second vocabulary so you can find it later even when your question uses different words than its title.
Concept tags are short topic labels attached to a record that name what it is about, giving each record a second vocabulary so you can find it later even when your question uses different words than its title. Say you save a meeting note titled "Q3 sync" that discusses pricing and a hiring freeze. The title alone will not surface it when you later search for "budget," so you tag the record with pricing, hiring, and budget. Months later a search for any of those words pulls the note up, even though none of them appear in the title. The labels act as deliberate handles you can grab from many angles.
Builder example
Retrieval over your own records improves when each record carries a few accurate topic labels, because the assistant can filter to a small, relevant set before it reads anything closely. Without tags, a search for "onboarding" misses a note titled "new-hire week one" that never uses the word. Ask your assistant to read each incoming record and propose three to five concept tags from a list you approve, so the vocabulary stays consistent instead of drifting into near-duplicate labels.
Common confusion: Concept tags label what a record is about so you can find it by topic. Backlinks connect one specific record to another so you can move between them. Tags group many records under a shared theme; a backlink ties two named records together.