I need tags :).

Tags allow faster data organization than outline structure. Also creating
outline structure gets easier when you can do clone-by-tag.

If we all agree that we need tags, all we need is an UI demo on what the
tags look like on the tree. I think you should be able to glance the tree
and see the tags, as opposed to navigating to the

I have thought of making tags a new COLUMN on the tree widget. We should
make the tag list of smaller font, and different color than the headline
text.



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]>wrote:

> Does leo need tags for nodes?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any thoughts / other software's approaches to look at?
>
> Cheers -Terry
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