Hi Jean Charles, > > - Do you have any experience regarding tags vs. fields TW5 > organization ? What were your conclusions ? > > I started creating structured wikis like [1] with tags, because they are much easier to manage. But I found at least two annoying problems.
1. Too much tags! When in view mode you end up with more than 10 tags, some of them being "system tags", it is no more useful. 2. Tags have no semantic meaning, or they all share the same meaning. I needed tags to categorize, others meaning "written by", or "about", or "related to", etc., and you cannot do that with tags. For instance, if you have a tiddler for a book, and you tag it "William Shakespeare", it could mean that it is written by him, or that it talks about him, or it's related to him, etc. Fields are hidden from view, which could be a good thing, but its more work if you want to display their content. On the one side, fields are perfect to give different meanings or purposes for the information. On the other side, they are worse to work with, specially if you want list fields. > > - Is hundred of tags maintainable, and are their some tricks to make > this easy ? > > You can create special tags with symbols like: #sometag, @anothertag. You can hide these special tags from view, changing $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags > > - What are fields' future ? Is there a will to make them more > important/usable or not ? > > I hope so, but I don't know. Regards, Alberto [1] wikiphilo.tiddlyspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
