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Tag Maps

Recently in another thread, @ctietze asks us to consider if categories help or hinder the note taking process, because the topic is different enough, I've created a new thread. Here are my (quick) thoughts on the issue.

Yes I agree, categories can be constraining, but in my thinking categories by themselves are not the root issue. The inability to move between contexts is the real bottleneck. That can be fixed with tag-maps.

First, open this site in a new tab (& once there, click a box to understand visually) for an example of provisioning a user with arbitrary context/mappings...

https://www.lemoda.net/c/index.html

Now then, here's the syntactical sugar...

tags: map{science, notes, *}, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Where...

tagline is:          'tags:'
map declaration is:  'map{token 1, token nth}'
tags (1 or more) is: 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'

1/3 split tag-map into tokens...

map[0] = science;
map[1] = notes;
map[2] = *; // asterisk is a wildcard & matches any/all taxonomies...

2/3 user selects a mapped token...

selected_map = map[1];

3/3 commence comparisons...

for (x = 0; x < max; x++) {

  if (map[x] == selected_map && query == tag) show_data...

}

shurgs: speaking only for myself, works me :)

edit: I also want to add that Christian is doing a fantastic (very professional too) job with his software. Christian - always follow your own plan because that's all you really need to do.

Post edited by Mike_Sanders on
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