The Tags & Notes feature of SharePoint in Microsoft 365 has been retired. You can no longer create new tags and notes or access existing ones. The retirement of this feature resulted in the following changes.
| Item | Description of change |
|---|---|
| Tags & Notes button on ribbon | Still visible but disabled. |
| Note Board and Tag Cloud web parts in the web part gallery | Still visible and enabled. The web parts will show up as blank when added to a page. |
| Note Board and Tag Cloud web parts embedded in a page | Page will display a blank space in the area previously occupied by the web parts. Edit the page to remove the web parts. |
| Social tags | Social tags will no longer appear in the tags refiner. The refiner will still display hashtags. |
| Tags and notes listed on personal sites | The area that previously listed tags and notes will be blank. |
What to use instead of Tags & Notes
Here's what we recommend as an alternative to Tags & Notes:
- Keep track of all the documents and sites relevant to you ( see Organize documents and sites in Microsoft 365)
- Add an enterprise keyword to a SharePoint item to use for distributing the item to anyone following the keyword (see Add an enterprise keywords column to a list or library)
- Use Yammer (see Say hello to Yammer)
- Review differences between SharePoint newsfeed and Yammer (see SharePoint enterprise social experience - Yammer and Newsfeed)
- Add a Yammer feed to a SharePoint page (see Include a Yammer feed in a SharePoint page)