"hierarchical tags" - what are they, how do they work?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 21, 2012 at 10:46 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Yes, in a program like Evernote, you can display
>your tags in a hierarchical list, but how much of an advantage is this?

The advantage is the same as with hierarchical folders; when you have a lot of them, hierarchies help in their organisation and maintaining the overview.

In fact, as I’ve written in the past, I believe that hierarchical tags (several of which can be applied to an info item) and hierarchical folders with clonable items (allowing for the same item to exist in multiple folders) are different routes to the same result, though each may have certain advantages http://www.outlinersoftware.com/archives/viewt/2387