All the world's a tag and we are merely taggers.

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Posted by Amontillado
May 16, 2021 at 02:31 PM

As writers, we’re portrayers more than performers. I believe that correctly adapts the analogy from the bard, by which I mean lyricist Neal Peart (Limelight by Rush, 4th track, Moving Pictures).

In many apps, you build a tree of stuff, notes or files or whatever.

Some of those things will be related by a commonality off-axis to your chosen groupings. You can tag them to create sort of an ad-hoc grouping.

Tags in hierarchical trees allow for complete alternate classifications, something supported by my favorite application for organization, Devonthink.

I’ve discovered something else about DT tags. You can tag a tag with a tag.

Sounds crazy as a general concept, very simple in use.

It boils down to this. Consider notes for a novel. If your chapter 3 ideas appear as a flashback from chapter 19, tag chapter 3 with chapter 19.

It doesn’t matter if chapter 3 is a file, a group, or a tag. Any changes appearing in chapter 3 are there for reference when you look at chapter 19.

When you add a tag to something, it appears under the tag. The “something” can be a file, a group, or another tag. Whatever the “something” is, tagging works as expected.

That’s cool.

Be happy, don’t sweat the details, and Devonthink is smart enough to reject circular references. I tried.

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 18, 2021 at 11:04 AM

Hm. Well, I love the enthusiasm and the meta-Shakespeare. Not quite so sure about the concept, to be honest… ;-)

Posted by Amontillado
May 18, 2021 at 02:49 PM

It would be a little crazy to plan to organize like that, I agree.

MadaboutDana wrote:
Hm. Well, I love the enthusiasm and the meta-Shakespeare. Not quite so
>sure about the concept, to be honest… ;-)

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 18, 2021 at 03:20 PM

Aside the tagging interface, is there in practice a difference with hierarchical / nested tags?

https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8925/0/hierarchical-tags

Amontillado wrote:
>I’ve discovered something else about DT tags. You can tag a tag with a
>tag.

Posted by Lb
May 18, 2021 at 03:42 PM

Not really anything to add to the conversation. Just had to post since you quoted my favorite band since I was around 11 or 12 years old way back when the first album came out.

But I agree with MadaboutDana.

Have a good one,
Larry

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