Hi Jean-Charles > Do you have any experience regarding tags vs. fields TW5 organization ? What were your conclusions ?
It's worth remembering that tags are just a special type of field, so it's not really the dichotomy that it first appears. > Is hundred of tags maintainable, and are their some tricks to make this easy ? I think the core needs some improvements to cope better with large amounts of tags. For example, to reduce clutter it would be useful to be able to "blacklist" certain tags so that they are only listed in edit mode. But these changes are the sort of thing that it's easy to experiment with without waiting for the core. > What are fields' future ? Is there a will to make them more important/usable or not ? Fields are an integral part of the TW data model and so they are not going anywhere. I would expect future improvements to make them more useful. Best wishes Jeremy On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Alberto Molina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean Charles, > >> >> - Do you have any experience regarding tags vs. fields TW5 >> organization ? What were your conclusions ? >> >> I started creating structured wikis like [1] with tags, because they are > much easier to manage. But I found at least two annoying problems. > > 1. Too much tags! When in view mode you end up with more than 10 tags, > some of them being "system tags", it is no more useful. > 2. Tags have no semantic meaning, or they all share the same meaning. > I needed tags to categorize, others meaning "written by", or "about", or > "related to", etc., and you cannot do that with tags. For instance, if you > have a tiddler for a book, and you tag it "William Shakespeare", it could > mean that it is written by him, or that it talks about him, or it's related > to him, etc. > > Fields are hidden from view, which could be a good thing, but its more > work if you want to display their content. On the one side, fields are > perfect to give different meanings or purposes for the information. On the > other side, they are worse to work with, specially if you want list fields. > > >> >> - Is hundred of tags maintainable, and are their some tricks to make >> this easy ? >> >> You can create special tags with symbols like: #sometag, @anothertag. > You can hide these special tags from view, changing > $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/tags > >> >> - What are fields' future ? Is there a will to make them more >> important/usable or not ? >> >> I hope so, but I don't know. > > Regards, > Alberto > > [1] wikiphilo.tiddlyspot.com > > -- > 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. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
