Could you share your tagging habits?

[Tony K]

I'm thinking about tags and I don't want to use them as keywords.

I am more inclined to having some general structure where I can fit all my toddlers in without much thinking. In other terms using tags as categories??

Would love to hear your thoughts and experience about this

All the best

[Scott Kingery]

Hi Tony,

That is basically how I do it. Tags as categories and everything linked trough that. Here is a little "Notebook" I built:

https://techlifeweb.com/tiddlywiki/SimpleNotebook.html

Scott

[Anne-Laure Le Cunff]

I don't use tags, I use "tagging tiddlers" and TiddlyBlink.

For instance I write [[#book]] at the end of a tiddler with book notes. Then I can go on the #book page and thanks to bi-directional links I see all the tiddlers (book notes) referencing that one — i.e. all the tiddlers where I wrote [[#book]]

[TonyM]

Anne-laure/Tony

Anne-laure Thats a good approach, and can be done other ways as well.

Your method would be what I would call a "hashtag based title link" reference. You could also just use [[book]] place these inside a comment <!-- #book -->, or just raw #book and use search or contains in a filter to find them (including hidden in comments), if you wanted as well, or you could have a tiddler-type field with the value "book". Except when hidden in comments, the new freelinks plugin will highlight book and #book if there is a tiddler called book.

The possibilities are infinite.

Regards

Tony

[Anne-Laure Le Cunff]

Hashtag based is a good name! To be honest I still haven't tried freelinks because I don't understand what it does. Will give it a try this weekend on a fresh copy of TW. I'll see if it fits in my workflow.

What I like about my current approach is that I can create new tags on the go, even if they're only used once. It's very flexible. See an example here. (the "see also" section)

[TonyM]

A Quick overview of freelinks

Normally if you link to a tiddler you have to use [[some text]] in you wiki text or another means such as a tag, but once you create the "some text" tiddler, with freelink on, if you are displaying a tiddler containing "bla bla some text bla bla" then the 'some text' will automatically become an active link to the "some text" tiddler. Thus if you create a tiddler #book or even book where ever the text is used, it appears as a link.

• Of course to open the tiddlers in the first place you need search etc to get them.
• It allows you to see incidental references
• I often create tiddlers such as [[use fields rather than tags as context indicators]] and plain english words like "hierarchy" so freelinks will highlight their reuse in other free text.

Regards

Tony

[Anne-Laure Le Cunff]

Oh, that's very interesting! I was looking for a way to list all "unlinked" references (so freelinks in this terminology), so definitely worth having a look. I wouldn't want these to appear in-text though as it would get messy, so I'll probably need to play with it. Thank you!

[Tony K]

Thank you Scott, that's what I had in mind,

is that a plugin or something? (Create new Category / new sub category etc....)

thanks again

[Tony K]

That's how I am doing it right now ....

However i am still debating if I should keep the # or not.

a follow-up question Anne (if possible) when would you use [[Book]] vs [[#Book]] in your current context ?