Do you actually use GG "tags" to find things? -- My suspicion is its pointless

@TiddlyTweeter

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Aug 17, 2019, 11:45:40 AM8/17/19

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Though I try to add appropriate tags when I create posts I have to say ...

1 -- I have NO idea how an end user uses them (I doubt they do; in both senses).

2 -- Never myself actually used one to find anything.

3 -- Find the list of options on tags on post creation so limited its basically a dead-end.

In short, tagging posts, right now, looks like a total waste of my time,

But, IF any user is using GG TAGS to find posts, that, I'd value knowing.

TT

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Aug 17, 2019, 11:47:41 AM8/17/19

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Repeat for email ...

HansWobbe

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Aug 17, 2019, 1:08:07 PM8/17/19

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I find them moderately useful as a filtering mechanism that can even show other categories I might not have thought to Search.

Aidan Grey

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Aug 17, 2019, 1:14:59 PM8/17/19

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Ditto. They're really useful for filtering.

I also find them useful when there are specific topics defined. Knowing what to search for / tag a general post is difficult and not as useful, but if there are discrete categories...

I have a TW that's a dictionary, and the entries are tagged for semantic domain. For example, the word for fingernail / shell / eggshell / chitin is tagged with the codes for body parts, animal parts, and substances. It makes it easy to see what I have at a glance in the same general category, and what else I need.

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 11:08 AM HansWobbe <hww...@gmail.com> wrote:

I find them moderately useful as a filtering mechanism that can even show other categories I might not have thought to Search.

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Mohammad

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Aug 17, 2019, 1:25:10 PM8/17/19

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Hi Josiah,

Yes they are good for categorizing things! They will be more useful if all people here use them!!

by the way having them is better than not having them!

Mohammad

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Aug 17, 2019, 1:51:03 PM8/17/19

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Interesting replies!

Thank you.

Not what I thought would happen! :-)

Okay, so the tag thing has some utility.

The one thing I'd like you to do is ask Jeremy Ruston to ADD any obvious labels that are missing.

TT

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