Brady, I always agree we need to keep it clear and simple. GenTags helps with that but a little more css to delineate the different tag equivalents could help.
Perhaps later I can elaborate in more depth, but the difference between "category", "subject", "keyword" is in some ways what you want them to be but if you use different solutions, databases and software you get a feel for how these differ. But in the list we must include tags. - Tags = freely attach one or more tags but often used make multiple sets of things by sharing the same tag eg; giftidea or urgent usualy optional - Categories = more often than not something, can belong to one of a set of categories, though multiple are possible, often we want each tiddler to have "a" category - Subject = Perhaps a large set of items organised into a limited set of subjects eg; html css javascript - key words = an almost random set of words that are applied to a specific tiddler to add additional words, not in the text already to aid searching. Zero, one or more keywords typical and need not occur on other tiddlers. - Others that come to mind is - Domain like Work, Personal, Family - a limited set of large groupings to divide the whole content into say 3 domains. - Status = New Workinprogress closed ... However I have designed a "solution" recently that derives the status from other information rather than tagging items with a status. The thing is we are a talking about knowledge and Information management and there are many ways to meet the same objective, but if we think hard enough we can find the better ways, ways that are often intuitive to users, because of there own lived experience of organising things. In tiddlywiki we usually use tags to do all of the above but this can become overwhelming and it is not always easy to separate a category from a keyword, or status. Regards Tony On Friday, April 6, 2018 at 6:35:43 PM UTC+10, Brady77 wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > I can see your point. And have to admit that I was focused on tags, only. > You say that a tag is (technically) just another metadata "field:value" > pair. Sure, however there is something special about tags: you can find it > on top of tiddlers with distinct graphics. People tend to use them first. > If we wanted to add another filtering criteria (beside "keywords" for > fulltext search and "tags" for category selection) it will be certainly a > benefit. We should be cautious to keep the interface simple and > straightforward for regular users (not to discourage them by complexity). > So some sort of customization of the user interface regarding the filtering > fields will be great (in plugin settings, for instance). We should discuss > this with Jed. > > Can you elaborate on some of your points? Especially what is the > difference between "category", "subject", "keyword"? Maybe some examples > will help. What reason do you have for such a structure? > > Thanks. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6ac91a24-bdb2-4879-aa3e-eea8163b31ce%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
