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If you can nest folders, then a thing is all of its parent folders in addition to the folder it is directly contained in. This is the AND relationship, which yo
by zdragnar 5y ago
If you can nest folders, then a thing is all of its parent folders in addition to the folder it is directly contained in. This is the AND relationship, which you don't get with most tagging systems.
To highlight exclusion, consider an example- folder Animals with subfolders Cats and Dogs. A thing can be either a cat or a dog, but not both.
- em-bee 5y agobut that's just tagging discipline. if i tag an animal with cat and dog, that's obviously wrong. but i don't need folders to help me avoid that mistake. if an object has five tags, it is all those things. that looks like an AND relationship to me. the rest is search. if your tagging system only does OR searches, then that's indeed a problem, but of the implementation, not of the concept. and there is no reason both can't coexist. one application that i use extensively is kphotalbum. it allows me to organize photos by tags, categories, date, folders and other attributes all at the same time. i can navigate and search photos based on all of those attributes. usually i drill down a folder, and then pick tags from within that folder, or i pick tags at the the top level and then work with the folder structure of the selected images. ironically, kphotoalbum does not do well on OR relationships or exclusion of specific attributes. i often use temporary tags to help me there, which kphotoalbum makes trivially easy to use