On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does leo need tags for nodes?

Yes.
My view of Leo as a data manager means I want tags.
I've been thinking I'd address them in the context of the
db of nodes, all the better if they were native.

>
> Interface wise I see something similar to the the bookmarks.py
> interface, shown in the attached, colored strings indicating the tags a
> node has, probably a bit smaller.  Various commands and clicks for
> adding or removing tags and navigating through the nodes with a
> particular tag, or set of tags.

Display location, maybe a tab in the output pane.
Maybe enter them via minibuffer?
<alt-x> tags= ideas, terry, tagging

Maybe they could display in the minibuffer until <alt-x> was pressed.
IE; tags for current node on display until minibuffer is needed.

>
> This would be useful for all sorts of things, but Leo, being Leo,
> already has features that overlap functionality wise.  You could
> collect clones of all the nodes you want to identify with a particular
> tag, under a single parent node, which becomes the tag proxy thing.

Cool, a tag-based view would be great.

>
> You can do something similar with the backlinks.py plugin which provides
> unrestricted node linking, just link all the nodes which need a
> particular tag to a particular node.
>
> But I'm guessing only a tag centric UI component will give the quick
> and easy use you'd want from a tagging system.  Data wise I guess tags
> could be a simple list of string, p.v.u['_tags'], with Leo maintaining
> an index of tag to node list mappings.

wish list:
- tab completion / drop-down list to prevent creating similar tags
- import / export of tags, encourage consistent ontologies
- hooks which parse the node content, create tags from them

>
> Any thoughts / other software's approaches to look at?
>
> Cheers -Terry
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