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Re 2: you do need to re use your tags, but it is also true that the more tags you use the better. Having a long tail of very specific tags is not an issue beca
by platz 14y ago
Re 2: you do need to re use your tags, but it is also true that the more tags you use the better. Having a long tail of very specific tags is not an issue because it allows you to go very quickly to that specific tag, but re-using the general tag allows finding the item if the specific tag is forgotten. So you need both. The only problem this causes is browsing your tags, but then you're not really trying to find an item in thay case, so it doesn't matter as much.
- kijin 14y ago> Having a long tail of very specific tags is not an issue because it allows you to go very quickly to that specific tag > The only problem this causes is browsing your tags It also causes a problem if you can't remember the name of the tag. Then you need to browse your list of tags and try to figure out what it is. It's much easier to do this if you have 200 tags vs. 2000 tags.
- platz 14y agoI see your point, yes. If you can't remember the name of the general tag, yes, you need to browse. Assuming the general tag is used somewhat often though, some services allow you to filter tags based on how often they're used (Pinboard does this).