[tomboy-list] Tagging in Tomboy; why?

[D. Moonfire]

Boyd Timothy wrote:
> What I'm interested in hearing from everyone is, once you've used
> Tomboy and have added a bunch of tags to your notes:
> 
>     What additional features would you hope tags would give you?
> 
> For example, one idea that's been mentioned is to filter the list of
> notes in the Search All Notes window by selecting a tag and then
> exporting the filtered list to HTML, printing them, performing XYZ
> operation on them, etc.
> 
> I'm playing a little of the devil's advocate here.  I want to hear
> your arguments for why tagging would be important.

Searching, basically. When I put all 1200 charms for Exalted into my Tomboy, it
kind of blew away my 80+ pages of personal stuff. On my site, I use categories
and taxonomies rather heavily and it would be nice those same
skills/organization in my notes. If they were tagged, I would love to search for
"stories" and "short" and get the intersection between them to find a short
story to write when I have a few hours. I also have computer projects, work
related stuff, which are categorized by priority (high, medium, low), estimated
time to complete (short, long), and complexity (trivial, simple, complex).

That would lead into having a slightly modified menu in addition to the normal
last modified notes. It would be cool to see "last X modified in the stories
category".

I would also like to see tagging used in synchronization. It would be cool to
say "wiki" tagged pages are synchronized with a wiki site, and "game" ones are
shared with a friend.

I hope that helps.

Cheers!

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