I'd like to know if some of you have "good practices" regarding their use of *tags *and *fields*.
My current perception is that *tags *are very simple to use, accessible, searchable, customizable, and used by several extensions. That is a lot, and they are definitely worth using. However, I'm afraid that after a while, they are too much of them to make a personal tiddlywiki maintainable. Think about journal entries using tags to refer to tiddlers, etc... On the other hand, *fields *are neat but somewhat more hidden to the user. They are also used by TW5 internally, so there is a risk of collision as there is not such *$field* convention like the one used on tiddler naming. But they convey more information as they provide both a type/property and its value. However, they seem to be less integrated (no field-based TOC, no field backlinks, etc) I have two use-cases in mind, and the choice may apply to both : - "project" field/tag. What I call "project" is very broad, and I have up to 30 or 40 to manage/follow. So basically I can use a tag per project, and tag these tags with a "project" tag to avoid a complete mess. As projects come and go, I'll probably have lots of them after a while. A little bit scary in my opinion. - "organization" field/tag. I'd like to put all my contacts in TW5, and they all belong to one or more organization. Having tiddlers for each and every organization is ok, but having tags for each and every of them may end up having tons of them after a while. I'd prefer to use fields for each contact that refers to their organization(s) Maybe I'm reluctant because I'm ignorant of some practices or ways to organize TW5 tiddlers. Maybe having hundreds of tags is by no way an issue. But working with open "properties/fields" is something really great to organize stuff, so I tend to stick on this schema (I am a semantic mediawiki, for example). So, to sum it up : 1. Do you have any experience regarding tags vs. fields TW5 organization ? What were your conclusions ? 2. Is hundred of tags maintainable, and are their some tricks to make this easy ? 3. What are fields' future ? Is there a will to make them more important/usable or not ? Thank you for your feedbacks. -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
