Stupid Tag Tricks by Jonathan Stray.
From the post:
Overview’s tags are very powerful, but it may not obvious how to use them best. Here’s a collection of tagging tricks that have been helpful to our users, from Overview developer Jonas Karlsson.
The “tricks” include:
- Tracking documents for review
- Grouping Tags
- Create a visualization from your tags
- Tag all documents that do not contain tag “abc”
- Tag all documents that have tags “a” OR “b” OR “c”
- Tag all documents that have tags “a” AND “b” AND “c”
But, there is no “trick” for discovering when two or more different tags mean the same thing.
If we are annotating a collection of documents separately, we might use different tags to mean the same thing.
The last “tag trick” can collect all those documents together, how do we find out different tags meant the same thing?
If tags had properties, that is key/value pairs that identify the subject they represent, we could search those properties and discover different tags that meant the same thing.
In fact, we could write rules for when different tags represent the same subject.
That would lead to better sharing of tagged documents.
And enhanced result of tagged documents.
Interested?