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Share with us what is happening in your ZK this week. July 5, 2024
Swimming with Ideas This is yet another opportunity to share with your friends what you are working on. Add to this discussion by telling us about your zettelkasten journey. Share with us what you're learning. Sharing helps me and, hopefully, you, too. It helps us clarify our goals and visualize our thinking. And… -
Re: The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags
The same works using the power of set algebra: * Replace #ENT.idea with #ENT #idea and #XYZ.idea with #XYZ #idea * Search for idea or #idea and you will get the union of what used to be XYZ.idea and ENT.idea plus all ideas that are not part of either. * Search for #ENT and you get all the tags related to entertainment… -
Re: The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags
I too have found some functionality with that method, but am also worried about the unknowns of how it will scale and what functionality I might be losing. The following are what I think are benefits, but I'm curious to get anyone else's perspective: There are certain tags that overlap areas of life—like #contacts, #idea,… -
Re: The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags
@ms9 I experimented with things like that (with the flickr style of separating parts with a colon) because it looked clever and fun at first, but I found this doesn't scale. It creates the same problems like directory hierarchies, where topics come up in different contexts, like in #productivity/reading and #hobby/reading,… -
Re: The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags
Hi! I enjoyed this post and have also been thinking about tags recently. Picking good tags is difficult and so is staying consistent. One thing I've thought about recently, is "namespacing" tags. For example #meeting #people/john #people/jane could tag a description of a meeting that I had with John and Jane. Another…