First of all welcome.
As to your question:
I separate work and personal projects and actions in two different documents. This way you can have a separate tag pane for each. If I want to see all my personal projects I just go to my personal document and click on the tag “@@Project” tag. Likewise for the work projects. If I want to see all my projects there is a search for showing all tags in all documents. (ctrl+enter)
Zettlekasten is another document. Since it contains my thoughts I deem it private and therefore separate from my work. Even though many thoughts are related to my work.
So a birthday for me would be a project. Eg:
Daves Birtday @@Project
(In the note field I add which area of responsibility it belongs to and the ideal outcome.)
@@AOR Happy , grateful, and inspired family, friends and colleagues
Ideal outcome: A celebration of Dave and life where friends and family can get to know and understand each other better and have a good times with pink unicorns for young and old.
- #!RD Bakery that makes vegan b.day cakes
- #!Buy 1k Balloons #@Amazon
- #&Remind @&Eric to bring 20 chairs
- #&Ask @&Julia to make 30 unicorn hats
I hope that helped make it clearer.