Organize your Omnivore library with labels


Introduction

Labels allow you to group and search for content in Omnivore. A saved page can have multiple labels and search results can be filtered by label.

Adding labels to a page on iOS

On iOS you add and remove labels from a page using the Assign Labels modal.

You can open the Assign Labels modal from the home view or the reader view. In the home view long press on an item and choose Edit Labels from the dropdowm menu. In the reader view use the top right menu button.

Adding labels to a page on the web

On the web you add and remove labels from a page using the Assign Labels dropdown or modal depending on your screen size. For larger monitors you will see the Labels button on the left hand side of the reader view. For smaller monitors you will see the labels dropdown at the top of your screen.

You can also use keyboard commands to open the assign labels modal. On the reader view tap the l key. Once open you can use the up/down arrow keys, or the tab key to navigate the available labels, and the Enter key to toggle a label.

Searching by label on iOS

On iOS you can use the Labels search chip to search for labels. This will open a modal allowing you to assign multiple labels to your search. This will become an OR search, meaning if you add multiple labels to your search, pages that have any of the labels will be returned.

Searching by label with Advanced Search

Omnivore's advanced search syntax supports searching for multiple labels usingAND and OR clauses. You can also negate a label search to find all pages that do not have a certain label.

Some examples:

  • -label:Newsletter finds all pages that have the label Newsletter
  • label:Cooking,Fitness finds all your pages with either the Cooking or Fitness labels
  • label:Newsletter label:Surfing finds all pages with both the Newsletter and Surfing labels
  • label:Coding -label:Newsletter finds all pages with the Coding label that do not have the Newsletter label

Editing your list of labels

The labels page allows you to edit all of your labels. From here you can create new labels, delete existing labels, or modify the color and description of a label.