[tomboy-list] Tagging in Tomboy; why?

[Chris Granade]

As for myself, I often use Tomboy for taking notes in my college
classes, and it would be nice to be able to tag notes with what
classes they came from. That would make searching for past notes much
easier, as now I manually make links from a "class page" to the notes
for each page. While that approach works, I occassionaly forget to
make a link, and then the note gets somewhat lost. If I could tag from
the note side, I think it'd work out a lot better.

On 4/19/07, D. Moonfire <lists at mfgames.com> wrote:
> 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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