Timeline for Tags - best practice for using tags to replace hierarchical folder structure
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| Jan 21, 2017 at 4:07 | comment | added | Big Mac |
@MarkSetchell In a hierarchical folder structure you can easily put that PDF into two folders with a hard link (ln), or a symbolic link (ln -s) if the situation calls for it. Tags become more convenient when you want to apply a larger number of categories to a file. (It also depends on whether your categories more naturally form sets or a tree structure.) I am a big fan of tags too, but as researchers Bergman and Whittaker explain in their book The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff (2016) there are still cognitive benefits to maintaining a minimal hierarchical folder structure.
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:00 | comment | added | Mark Setchell |
@patrix Go in Finder->Preferences and select Sidebar and ensure that Tags is ticked at the bottom.
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 12:16 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | How do you keep track of the different tags you use? | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 22:06 | history | answered | Mark Setchell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |