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+1 for hierarchical tags. I've been organizing all my bookmarks (about 12K going back more than a decade) with Usenet-style tags like comp.lang.python and sci.b
by kijin 10y ago
+1 for hierarchical tags. I've been organizing all my bookmarks (about 12K going back more than a decade) with Usenet-style tags like comp.lang.python and sci.bio.paleontology for several years now. It works great, especially since Pinboard lets me autocomplete by tag prefix.
One of the things that I think most services like Gmail missed when they tried to replace folders with tags is that although the same item can belong to multiple categories, the categories themselves usually don't have a completely flat relationship to one another. An article can relate to both Python and paleontology, but that doesn't change the fact that Python is a programming language and paleontology is a subfield of the biological sciences. This will be very useful later when I'm trying to remember something that uses some programming language to analyze data in some subfield of the biological sciences, for example.
Tags look cute on a screenshot when you have a few hundred items. But when you have tens of thousands of items, you need a bit of hierarchy to protect your sanity.
- icebraining 10y agoBut Gmail tags do have hierarchy...
- kijin 10y agoNested labels were only introduced in 2010 or 2011. Can't remember exactly when, but they certainly weren't available when I first started and then stopped using Gmail. Something as basic as how to organize your email should not have been an afterthought.
- RileyKyeden 10y agoIt was probably a concession, not an afterthought. Google's whole thing with Gmail was "keep all your email, don't bother organizing, search will solve all."
- NobleLie 10y agoMy point was that in gmail, tags dont inherit their parent when searching Example: - Action - Task - Closed - Open When searching action, its my preference to see all items tagged with either Action, Task, Open or Closed, but gmail only filters for Action