In circleOS, these are not free-form tags. They are context links shown as chips on the note, and they tell you which record or workflow the note belongs to.
circleOS usually fills them in from where you started the note, so in most cases you do not need to file the note again later.
What a note can link to
Many notes are linked to a patient. Depending on where you create or save the note, it can also be linked to:
- a booking
- a purchase
- a plan
- a lab order
For example, a note created in Live Mode usually carries both the patient and the current booking.
A single note can carry more than one link at the same time. That is why the same note can show up in more than one place later.
Why context links matter
These links decide where the note appears later.
If a note is linked to a booking, you can find it again on that booking. If it is linked to a plan, it also appears in the plan workflow. This is why the safest habit is to create the note from the page you are already working in.
Can you edit them like normal tags?
No. These chips are not a free-form tagging system.
In the day-to-day note editor, you can see the chips but you do not manually add or remove them like normal tags. If you need the note attached to a different workflow, it is usually better to create it from that patient, booking, purchase, plan, or lab-order page.
Context links and diagnosis codes
Diagnosis codes are separate from context links.
When you add the first diagnosis code, circleOS switches the note type to Diagnosis, but the note still keeps its patient, booking, purchase, plan, or lab-order links.
Patient tags are separate too. Tags help organise patients or other records. Context links only describe where a note belongs.