I should point out that LiveJournal already offers OR operators with tags - though it's not really a very advertised feature, which is a shame. Just separate the tags with commas in the URL.
(it's a shame this isn't an AND operator instead, to be honest, so I'd still love this. :D) - Kira. On 8/8/08, Afuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Afuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:33 PM > Subject: Re: [DW Discuss] Subscription, Tags and Filters > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > This is an interesting idea. Not sure whether it would fit the > organizational-minded types, but boolean operators for tags could take > away some of the need for a strict hierarchy. If I had three tags: > "glass, windows, microsoft", proper AND (intersection) and OR (union) > boolean operators would let me search for either all entries tagged > windows, all entries tagged with either windows OR glass (which would > also include entries about microsoft windows), or all entries tagged > with windows AND glass (no ms windows). > > I still like the idea of somehow organizing the tags (e.g., today I'm > in a mood to write entries about coding, but I have a long list of > tags about my personal life. Wish I could tuck them away so I can > easily pick out the tags that are relevant to my topic), but it would > be less needed. > > Several ideas for approaches have already been tossed out onto this > list, and there are issues with each; I'm not sure what the best > approach is. Bundling tags may not be ideal for the case when you have > a tag with the same name that you use for two different purposes. > Tagging the tags could be complicated. Purely hierarchical can make > the tag structure less flexible, etc. > > One example, assuming that I tag all the entries "glass" with > "windows", and all entries "microsoft" with "windows", and also > assuming that all my microsoft entries are private while all my glass > entries are public: > > bundle: things I like looking at: > - glass - 5 uses (public tag) > - windows - 7 uses (public tag) > > bundle: things I dislike looking at: > - microsoft - 2 uses (private tag) > - windows - 7 uses (public tag) > > That is three tags, with "windows" being stored as the same tag/ same > tag id and metadata in both bundles, so it's seen as public (since > glass entries are public) > > > "Tagging the tags" which Mark brought up would probably mean four > tags, with "windows" being separated into two tags: > > glass - 2 uses (public tag) > windows [glass] - 2 uses (public tag) > microsoft - 5 uses (private tag) > windows [microsoft] - 5 uses (private tag) > > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:55 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure if someone's mentioned this yet since I'm not in realtime and I've > > only been on this list a couple of months, but rather than the hierarchal > > scheme (or perhaps in addition to), could it be made so one can view the > > intersections or unions of various tags? I don't know, for example, if I > > want to have a tag that's Fic:Coauthored:Bleach:Series:Humor. I'd > > personally prefer to tag them with 5 different tags, and on the tag display > > page be able to check them off (ticky boxes, yey!), select "and" or "or", > > hit display, and have a page compile with the posts I had in mind. > > > > > > ~kali > > > _______________________________________________ > > dw-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
