Tags
Free-form labels you define and apply across your contact book — `investor`, `customer`, `met-at-saastr`, whatever maps to how you actually think about your network.
Overview
Tags are how you organize your contact book the way you think about it, not the way some pre-baked taxonomy thinks for you. Every tag is one you created. There are no built-in categories.
Apply tags to filter the contact list, group people for bulk actions, or spot patterns over time (e.g., "how many investor tags came from the same introduced by person?"). If you turn on bidirectional Google sync, your tags also keep your Google Labels in lockstep.
Creating a Tag
You don't create tags from a separate "new tag" screen — they come into existence when you first apply one to a contact.
Open any contact's detail sheet, click the tag input, and type. As you type, Remy autocompletes against tags you've already used.
- If a match appears, pick it. The existing tag is applied.
- If no match appears, press Enter. Remy creates the tag and applies it in one step.
The autocomplete is intentional friction against duplicates — investor, Investor, and investors would otherwise drift apart. Pick the suggestion when it offers one.
Applying Tags in Bulk
From the contact list, select multiple contacts and use the bulk action to add or remove a tag across the entire selection. This is the fastest way to apply a tag like met-at-conference after a big event.
See Contacts → Bulk Operations for selection mechanics.
Filtering by Tag
Pick one or more tags from the filter control at the top of the contact list. Multiple tags combine with AND — the list shows only contacts that carry every tag you picked.
The tag filter combines with search and sort, so you can pin down "everyone tagged investor whose company contains 'Acme', sorted by last activity" in three clicks.
Managing Tags
Open Settings → Tags for tag-wide operations that aren't worth doing one contact at a time.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Rename | Changes the tag's name everywhere it's applied. The tag's identity is preserved — every contact who had it still has it, under the new name. |
| Merge | Combines two or more tags into a target tag. Every contact that had any of the source tags now has the target. The source tags disappear. |
| Delete | Removes the tag from every contact and erases it. The contacts themselves are untouched. |
Merge is the cleanup tool for when you realize investor and vc mean the same thing in your head. Pick one as the survivor and merge the other in.
Google Label Sync
In bidirectional Google sync mode, your tags and Google Labels are mirrored automatically.
- Create a tag in Remy → a matching Google Label is created.
- Create a label in Google → a matching tag is created in Remy on the next sync.
- Apply or remove on either side → mirrored on the next sync.
- Rename, merge, or delete on either side → mirrored on the next sync.
In read-only sync mode, the mirror is one-way: Google Labels become Remy tags, but changes you make in Remy don't push back.
Some Google labels are deliberately ignored
System labels Google manages on its own — myContacts, Starred, contact groups Google created automatically — are never mirrored as tags, in either direction. The mirror only handles labels you created.
Tag pushes happen as part of the regular sync run. Membership changes are batched in the background to stay inside Google's API quotas.
What Gets Logged
Every tag-related action shows up in your Activity Log:
- Tag Created — first time a tag exists, whether from explicit creation or first-time application.
- Tag Renamed — any rename from Settings → Tags.
- Tag Merged — one or more tags merged into a target.
- Tag Deleted — a tag removed from all contacts and erased.
- Tag Pushed To Google — a local tag change (create, rename, delete) was pushed to Google in bidirectional mode.
- Tag Push Failed — a push attempt failed (auth, quota, or version conflict). The change stays queued for the next sync attempt.
The push entries are useful when you suspect tags have drifted between Remy and Google — they tell you whether a push was even attempted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a limit on how many tags I can have?
There's no fixed limit. The autocomplete is the practical limit — once you have hundreds of barely-distinct tags, finding the right one becomes the slow path. Periodically merge near-duplicates from Settings → Tags.
Can a tag have a color or icon?
Not today. Tags are plain text. The Settings → Tags surface ranks them by how many contacts use each, which usually serves the same purpose as visual prioritization.
What happens to my Google Labels if I delete a tag in Remy?
In bidirectional mode, the matching Google Label is deleted on the next sync. In read-only mode, your local tag is deleted but the Google Label stays — Google is the source of truth in that direction.
Are tags case-sensitive?
The autocomplete treats them case-insensitively when suggesting matches, but Investor and investor are stored exactly as you typed them. Use Settings → Tags to merge case-variants if they got created.