[tw5] Re: Implications of "Tag Pollution"

2021-07-14 Thread
Hi all, *> Long drop-downs because of many tags when tagging force you to remember part of the tag name at least and browsing is made complex.* Long drop-drowns are quite the bother. Displaying them over several columns beyond a certain number would be a starter I guess. Moving away from TW

[tw5] Re: Implications of "Tag Pollution"

2021-07-14 Thread TW Tones
Folks, Good to see this conversation continue; Tags are beautiful and easy to adopt and should remain free and unconstrained, however as they build in number they can get messy and complex. To me the main issue with tag pollution is "user management" but also its the wrong solution and

[tw5] Re: Implications of "Tag Pollution"

2021-07-14 Thread TiddlyTweeter
I don't think this is a "tag problem". It is a more routine issue: "How do I carve the Universe" :-) This is not about systems. It is about thinking. At root, I believe :-). We tend to focus here on gizmode-ology :-) But actually a lot of the issues are really about conceptualization of one's

[tw5] Re: Implications of "Tag Pollution"

2021-07-14 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
In my case, a TW with only 30k entries slowed to a crawl when using the tag filter. This was AFTER indexing had been added. Most of the tiddlers in the TW had the same tag. My workaround was to change my filters to use search filter instead of tag filter. As best as I understand it, the

[tw5] Re: Implications of "Tag Pollution"

2021-07-14 Thread PMario
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 5:29:38 PM UTC+2 Stobot wrote: I agree with most of the points of where fields are more useful than tags > as you get deeper and deeper into organization, and the methods make sense, > but often there's talk about a performance implication that I don't >

[tw5] Re: Implications of "Tag Pollution"

2021-07-14 Thread David Gifford
I am no expert. But my experience has been that when I have used large numbers of tags the performance slows. Here are two of my projects that have some slow down: 1. https://giffmex.org/gospels.bubbles.html (1600 tiddlers, 1155 tags) very slow. I gave up on finishing it because to add tags