"Tags in TW can be whatever you want them to be." (I don't know how to quote in Google groups).
I know! :) That statement is too broad for someone just starting out, though. It's like "everything is a tiddler" or "everything is a list". The lines get blurred really quickly and I'm second-guessing my decisions every step of the way. The arbitrary "unstructured" keyword part is fairly easy to wrap one's head around, so are hierarchies, but for some reason I was struggling with the "tags as hierarchies" concept, and I think I understand why now. To be honest I don't think that having them above the title would make any more sense! Just something I wanted to throw out there. Now, onto filters... On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 1:51:49 PM UTC-5 Mat wrote: > Interesting interpretations. > > Tags in TW can be whatever you want them to be. It is probably most common > to use them for hierarcies and categories but it can really be arbitrary > keywords. A cool aspect, which I guess we see in many other tools as well > these days, is that tags can also be tiddlers, i.e the tag name can be a > tiddler title. > > To use them for ToC's then, yeah, I guess they have to be hierarchical, at > least the way the core ToC macros are implemented. > > If you are more convenient with having the tags above the title, to imply > "higher order", you can reorder the tiddlers ViewTemplates (and the > EditTemplates). Incidentally, this is most easily done via tags(!) i.e by > opening the ViewTemplate tag and drag the tags template to where you want > it positioned relative to the other parts of the tiddler. > > How do you find the ViewTemplate tag, you ask. Either you locate a tiddler > tagged such or you create a tag and use it, like so > > <<tag "$:/tags/ViewTemplate">> > > ...or you support my proposal for increased access to these things > <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/discussions/5516>. > > <:-) > > On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 3:35:28 PM UTC+1 Osin wrote: > >> I'm a TW noob, I "know" about all these different TW pieces, but when it >> comes to putting it together and "thinking" in a TW manner, then putting >> something together, I tend to freeze up. >> >> Tags are something fairly simple to grasp, but I didn't realize they >> needed more preparation, and how they fit in a hierarchy was a bit of a >> challenge (using them to create a TOC for example). I was lucky enough to >> have access to Soren's Grok TW, and tags representing "membership" made me >> click. >> >> Then it occurred to me that visually, tag pills are smaller and are >> located right below the Title - something that is traditionally >> representative of a lower place in a hierarchy. I guess I was thinking >> about tags as amorphous keywords, kind of what you'd use to characterize >> music genres rather than them having the possibility of having an inherent >> hierarchy. >> >> Does this make any sense or am I way off? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/98fcab1b-ff1d-4f52-a7b5-09d11b1c4784n%40googlegroups.com.
