What is your "philosophy" when using tags and links?

[si]

I have a feeling that I am not utilizing links as well as I could be so I'm wondering how others approach using tags and links.

Currently I pretty much exclusively use tags to structure my wiki. If you have ever used "TheBrain" this is basically how I think about my wiki. I think of every tiddler as a concept that has other higher-level or lower-level concepts associated with it. Tags simply represent "parent" tiddlers, just like with the TOC macros.

From any tiddler I can jump to parent or sibling tiddlers by clicking on the tags, and child tiddlers through a list filtered with the tagging operator.

I have found that although I add links to other tiddlers if I happen to use the title in the text, if I want to explicitly relate two tiddlers I always do this with tags.

As a result I feel that I am not using links as effectively as I can, so I wondered how other people think about the way that they use these fundamental features of TW?

[Mat]

Here are some of my thoughts:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/iNVgY_NdVTQ/XmEtrtV5RLMJ

<:-)

[Sebastian Theilhaber]

Hi there,

Think of my as your long-time, IT-wise very untrained, far older than most, every day- user (closer to 10 years).

My usage: diary, idea collection, managing personal "projects", "knowledge-base", documentation of brains-farts (of which there are plenty...).

Over time I have started using tags cloud-like and to manage functions that allow for effective filtering.

Beauty is: you can pretty make up your own system any way you like.

I'm sure there are a lot smarter and better organized wizards out there - really depends on what you want to do, I guess...

[TonyM]

Si,

In the prerelease version there is the freelinks plugin. It highlights text that is also found in a tiddler title. This creates a link to open that title so it allows you to discover matching titles. If you add to this the ability in the editor to excise selected text into at tiddler and link that phrase will be highligited anywhere it appears in future. In this case you do not need to rely on tags.

There are in fact too many possibilities with tiddlywiki to share them all, with predictive text options being explored in Editor Magic of Mats and prior work.

I also believe even when we are collecting apparently unstructured information possible tags and categorizations of a general nature start to appear, you can then leverage tiddlywikis flexibility and introduce these as needed gradually semi-structuring and learning from your content. 

Regards

Tony

On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 10:12:56 PM UTC+10, si wrote:

[LinOnetwo]

Hi si,

If you install the tw-locator plugin and follow the readme to create a "folder" tab, you can use tab to create folder-like structure. So tag can define the tiddler's location in that "file system"

And for link, they are just quick button to open other file, when you are reading a file.

在 2020年4月8日星期三 UTC+8下午8:12:56，si写道：

[Sebastian Theilhaber]

Thanks for sharing! this locator plug-in looks wickedly cool...

Have to check that one out.