Thank you guys!, you give some ideas that I will implement for my own TWs, thank you!
But I do think it is unfortunate to intentionally limit the system in this regard for at least three reasons: 1) Conceptual confusion: TW does not, as far as I can tell, fulfill the general perception of what tags are: Wikipedia article Tag <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29>, and Wordpress on Categories vs Tags <http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/>. 2) Compromises: There are several aspects of tags that a user might miss out on if he cannot use his words as tags. Differences in search behaviour from if they were tags. And, again, compromising the text is not necessarily OK; what should you do for a tddler intended to depict Mona Lisa? 3) Obstructed use case : Both the process Mario kindly details and Tobias' parent=>child restrictions force a lot of analysis. I love thinking and I love logic structures, but there is simply a place for ad hoc too, *particulary* in note taking tools and creative work. If nothing else, it can work as a transitory phase *before* structuring. (Compare to e.g formal braintstorming: analysis/evaluation/judgement is directly detrimental in the initial stages and will simply *not* produce good results.) A tool designed for very structured tagging is probably more about documentation than note taking. I just don't see why TW should be limited in this respect. Apropo this last point, TW perhaps being a tool more for documentation more than note taking, I've touched on this from some other angles, particulary the somewhat slow workflow for documenting things in TW (e.g tiddler creation). Just maybe there should, after all, be a theme specializing on a more impromptu and careless workflow (TW jazz!) rather than the conscientious current workflow. Or maybe "theme" is the wrong word... because ideally the input should be easy to refine (organize and structure) if the preference for this arises. ...Considering the dynamic nature of TW, we could have different page templates, showing tools etc for the application at hand. Maybe called different *modes*? "Swithin' over to note-taking mode." Is there a mechanism for switching page templates? <:-) -- 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.
