I must just say thank you for sharing your thought processes and reasoning on this most interesting, and important, topic.
Just so there is no misunderstanding; As you point out, nobody is stopping me from using tags anyway I want but this is of course about making TW as useful as possible. Ok, it remains a fact that in the end we still have a few practical problems with the current design that isn't ideal for more careless tagging: - There will be tiddlers that are difficult to find, as exemplified by the tiddler Tagging <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Tagging> and someone curious about how to use tags and therefore searches "tags". Note that this is an example of a carefully designed and tagged tiddler. - If we delegate ad hoc tags to be part of the text, we have a problem when the tiddler is not really common text. An image, a rendered list, a transcluded text where we might not ahead know if certain words appear, etc. A technical solution to insert tags in the content anyway compromises the resulting impression (this is not a small matter) and to demand attention to if tags really appear in the text, if there in deed is text, compromises the workflow for sure. - If we, hypothetically, limted tag to only be parent-child relationships then people who use tags as more arbitrary labels must learn that it is not OK to tag freely. Overall, I think TW currently is designed for an unnecessarily late stage in the brains tought process, not quite letting us take advante of the brains associative nature before we structure stuff mentally. If we really want TW to be *designed* to fit around your brain <http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki> I say we should tap into this - because we can and it would make TW an even more creative work environment. I don't think I have much more to say on it right now so will put on, um, keep on, my thinking hat. BTW, this made me remeber an actual project I had to give up on because of *other* limitations in tagging (TWC at that time) and this time with very structured tagging! It's really a funny case so I will detail it soon. It would be fantastic if it turns out I was just approaching it the wrong way. @Astrid and particularly Mario and Tobias - great hearing your reasoning! <:-) -- 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.
