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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM

Chris Murtland wrote:
>At least in ConnectedText, categories (which are the same as tags), can
>be placed into a hierarchy.

CT is a very advanced and flexible tool by wiki standards. For example, the ability to create customised fields and organise/filter the model accordingly is surely not common.

As far as categories go, in the wikimatrix.org it is listed as a single feature with the question “can pages be added to (multiple) categories?”, thereby differentiating categories from inclusive folders, but that’s about it. For 88 of the listed wikis the answer is “yes” without more information http://www.wikimatrix.org/search.php?sid=846 From my (limited) experience with wikis, I’d say most use a flat list of categories.

In any case, I am discussing here mostly the principles of organisation. In principle, for example, a wiki is very different from an outliner. The fact that there are information managers combining both approaches into one, doesn’t make the two approaches any more similar. I would say that it is a good thing when multiple approaches are available to the user, but it also goes to highlight the limitations of each.