[Zim-wiki] Request for comments: usage of tags

2012-06-22 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
Dear all, I was thinking a bit about why I don't really use tags myself. So I came up with the idea that I would want to use tags more like keywords. So instead of placing tags around a piece of text, I would want to highlight certain words as key words that need to be indexed. And I can do that

Re: [Zim-wiki] Request for comments: usage of tags

2012-06-22 Thread Marco Cevoli
Hi Jaap, This is not an easy question. On one side we have tags, defined as non hierarchical categories. You can associate any page with 1 or more tags. On the other side we have keywords (to be indexed). Do we want to keep these 2 categorization items separated? I use tags as contexts, so I

Re: [Zim-wiki] Request for comments: usage of tags

2012-06-22 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Marco Cevoli marco.cev...@gmail.com wrote: It all depends on how you visualize the global index (tag cloud vs alphabetical index). I don't think I want to change anything there. Should work exactly as it works now. The tag index version that is sorted by tag

Re: [Zim-wiki] Request for comments: usage of tags

2012-06-22 Thread Joerg Desch
Hi Jaap. On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:51:40 +0200 Jaap Karssenberg jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking a bit about why I don't really use tags myself. So I came up with the idea that I would want to use tags more like keywords. I'm using Zim in 4 different main use cases but within

Re: [Zim-wiki] Request for comments: usage of tags

2012-06-22 Thread Jaap Karssenberg
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, NorfCran norfc...@gmail.com wrote: that sounds like a great proposal. Personally I may have a case, which uses tags for spatial identification for example @location:lon,lat. The symbol of : is attached directly after the @location. If this will be taken in

Re: [Zim-wiki] Request for comments: usage of tags

2012-06-22 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On 22 June 2012 13:45, Rudi Bruchez r...@babaluga.com wrote: Sounds strange in a wysiwyg environment not to show smth the user typed. What happens then if believe I've forgotten the @ an type it again ? would it store @@tag ? Well, there's lots of magic happening when typing markup in zim. The