To add to Marios response. Every thing with the same tag can be said to belong in the same group. This is a way to organise tiddlers, and you can quickly find everything else in the same group.
Imagine Work and Personal tags People often use tags to represent a particular kind of tiddler task note booking journal And they are often also used to represent status new working completed cancelled archived And then there is peoples names as tags, subjects or categories Tags are a quick and easy way to add a great deal of organisation even processes to your information without much fuss. Tags can be a switch, if tagged or not? In my most recent large wiki I keep tags for ad hoc categories or flagging and have moved most into other fields some of which are tag like fields, Just to cope with what would be to many tags. their use and number is unlimited Regards Tony On Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 2:00:49 PM UTC+10, h0p3 wrote: > > There are several vanilla mechanics in Tiddlywiki I've just not found a > good use for yet (I'm kinda slow sometimes), and I feel like I'm leaving > delicious computational dimensionality and automation just sitting there on > the table. Tagging is one of those obvious mechanics I'm not using at all. > > Since my wiki primarily isn't a collaborative work (I'm the author), I > don't seem to benefit from controlled vocabulary or a folksonomy. Yet, I > believe I am ignorantly blind about the value of tagging in Tiddlywiki. > I've tried using them before, but they've never seemed to really do > anything for me. > > Naively, I've been able to comfortably survive using search, marginally > taglike-equivalent tiddler title naming conventions, and effective > linking+transcluding. Sometimes it feels like the more structure I give to > my wiki through links, the less likely I am to benefit from tags. Further, > search is so fast and flexible, I'm having a hard time finding cases where > tagging (a non-trivial task) is worth the effort. > > * What is an obvious example of tagging being the best and irreplaceable > tool for the job? > * When do tags outperform linking with advanced search? > * What do tags help me model that I can't already? > * What constitutes a good tag? > * How many tags in a wiki and/or per tiddler are optimal? > > I assume the vast majority of TW users abuse tags very hard. There appears > to be plenty of tooling devoted to tags. I feel like an idiot for finding > no good use for them, and I want to spellcast with whatever magical powers > they contain! I've been told by a couple people who use tags (including > someone with an MLIS) that they aren't sure how I would benefit from tags > in the long run. Perhaps tags aren't always useful, they are just one > method which might not suit my usecase. I have no idea, but I'm trying to > understand. > > Help a fool out, please. I want to think smarter not harder with tags. > -- 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/341af5a4-fc43-4178-8dc8-75b4f3c629e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
