Beta Free Last reviewed: 19 Oct 2026
With tags you organize characters, locations, chapters and scenes across the chapter structure, nested in levels if you like.
Chapters put your story in order from front to back. Many questions cut across that order, though. Which scenes do you still want to revise? Which characters belong to the rebellion?
Tags answer such questions. You attach a label to characters, locations, chapters or scenes. A click on the label then shows you the matches across the whole project.
Picture a filing cabinet with hanging folders. In the folder revision sits a sub-folder dialogue. That is exactly how you nest tags: the path revision/dialogue creates both levels in one step.
The hierarchy helps you tidy up. You can rename tags, color them and reorder them by dragging. If you delete a tag, its sub-tags move up one level. The deleted tag itself goes to the trash first.
Open a book, switch to the “Chapters” area and choose the “Tags” tab there.
What you see afterwards: your tag tree or the notice “No tags in this project yet.”
Enter a name or path in the field, for example draft/rewrite, and click “Create”.
What you see afterwards: the tag with its levels in the tree, with the number of its matches next to it.
Open a character and type a name under “Tags” in the “Basics” area. Choose a suggestion or confirm with Enter.
What you see afterwards: the tag as a chip with its full path; you remove it again with the cross.
Click a tag in the tag tree and, if needed, tick “include sub-tags”.
What you see afterwards: a list of matches; a click on an entry opens the object.
Drag a tag onto another tag to nest it below.
What you see afterwards: the reordered tree; if this would create a loop, Illumentis reports “Circular hierarchy detected.” and the tree stays unchanged.
Owners and active co-authors can view, create, assign, change and delete tags. If, as a co-author, you only have access to certain books, the match list and match count show only objects from your books. Guests with a share do not see tags.
Tags belong to exactly one project and do not appear in other projects. You find deleted tags via “Show trash” in the tag tab and bring them back with “Restore”. After 30 days in the trash, Illumentis can remove a tag permanently.
In the interface, you can currently assign tags only to characters; the input field for locations, chapters and scenes is still missing. You reach the tag tree only via the book detail page, where you move tags by drag and drop. A restored tag does not automatically get its former sub-tags back.
