# About the Sidebar in Bear

> Learn how to organise notes in Bear using the sidebar. Learn about Untagged notes, Todo List, Today tab, locked notes, archive, trash, and how to structure your tags

Source: https://bear.app/faq/about-the-sidebar-in-bear/

The Sidebar in Bear keeps all your notes organized into two main sections: Notes and Tags. The Notes section contains a few built-in subdivisions with basic organization. The Tags section contains all the tags you’ve applied to notes in Bear.

Here’s how they work.

![](https://bear.app/faq/images/sidebar_1.jpg)

## Notes Section
The Notes section contains our built-in subdivisions for your notes.

- **Untagged** - All notes that you haven’t tagged yet.
- **Todo** - Notes that contain todos that still need to be completed.
- **Today** - Notes you’ve created today.
- **Locked** - Notes encrypted with [Bear Pro](https://bear.app/faq/features-and-price-of-bear-pro/)
- **Archive** - Any notes you’ve archived (**Note**: This section doesn’t appear until you archive at least one note).
- **Trash** - Notes you’ve deleted. This is one last chance to retrieve them before they are deleted _forever_.

## Tags Section
As you create notes in Bear, you can add tags to them simply by prefixing words with a pound sign, like **\#travel** or **\#work**. You can also create multi-word tags by wrapping words with two pound signs, like **\#Star Wars\#** or **\#blog post ideas\#** or **\#shopping lists\#**.

The Tags section of the Sidebar in Bear collects tags as you create them. By default, tags are sorted alphabetically. 
You can **change the tag sorting** on iOS by the … menu in the sidebar. On macOS, the View > Tag Sorting menu can be used for the same purpose.

## Pin tags in the Sidebar
You can pin important or frequently used tags to the tip of the tag list in the Sidebar.

* **Mac**: Right-click a tag in the Sidebar and choose **Pin Tag**
* **iOS**: Long-press a tag in the Sidebar and choose **Toggle Pin**