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Nested labels would fail eventually. Labels/tags were invented to avoid the awkwardness of a tree structure, I don't see the point of re-inventing a tree struct
by est 17y ago
Nested labels would fail eventually. Labels/tags were invented to avoid the awkwardness of a tree structure, I don't see the point of re-inventing a tree structure on top of labels.
- brown9-2 17y agoprobably why it's just a Labs feature for now - i.e., for testing.
- roc 17y agoAt a conceptual level, a tree-structure of tags is just meta-tagging. You apply the "Family" tag to the "Kids" tag and the "Home" tag to the "Family" tag, and you now get that much more information out of applying the "Kids" tag and can filter more efficiently. (E.g. filter all "Home" tags out of a view, rather than itemizing each and every tag that you imagine falls under the idea of "Home stuff") The tree is then just a visualization of relationships and not a strict hierarchy. I don't know if Google has implemented them this way (I'd like to hope so). But if they have not, it's not a failing of the idea.
- joshu 17y agoExactly so. This is why Delicious's "tag bundles" exist. (Bundles are tags for tags, but tagtags or whatever sounded stupid and confusing.)