#62

I loved when you said:

Storing information or even knowledge is the easy part. Retrieving it is a fine art.

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#63

I’ve read this thread twice already, top to bottom, and I still can’t figure out this dilemma for myself.

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#64

I use tags as status/type indicators and everything else gets a link. I find it easier to build out a bigger note when I have it as a link/page once it gets enough other things linking to it that I want to develop the idea.

I call them Tagnotes and I talked about and demonstrated how I do it here: Obsidian Tagnotes - YouTube

#65

I feel this

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#66

In some in-deep Zettlekasten studies, someone talks about “weak” and “strong” linking.
For example, if I write a zettle about the “Show don’t tell” method, I could link this article to the “Save the cat” method as their both anglosaxon method to construct a writing piece. It is a strong link, as I contextualise them into the article and they are directly related. I can also link the article to a extract from a book as a good example of “Show don’t tell” or my own analysis of a film. This process mimics the way your brain functions, creating associations between ideas to create new ideas.

But tags are different, as you can find yourself linking things together without context and evident relationship. For example, I can set a tag “Medical advise” with an article about healing a stomach pain and an other one about when consulting a physician for a headache is a good idea. They are not directly related even if they take place in the same field. But methods, causes and consequences are not the same at all.

When you study something, the ideal configuration is the one that requires you the less efforts as you need to concentrate a lot to gather and incorporate new knowledges. Direct linkings allow you to constantly call back what you learnd before. Tags allows you to create categories. Do you need categories ? To do what ?

Myself I don’t use them at all. I use to, because this feature is rather a convention, but I don’t need them anymore. For example I set up the tag “medicine advise” in the title with my file naming process : medecine notes begins with a number “013” and advise becomes “013.02.Headache.When call the doctor.Advice”. When I type “013.Advise” in my quick switcher, the research tools find for me every files from medecine with “advise” in their title. The page "“013.02.Headache.When call the doctor.Advice” is linked to the “013.02.Headache.Possible causes”.

I hope you find this usefull :slight_smile:

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#67

During organizing existing documents without a good structure yet for MOCs, I find it useful to begin with tagging, then migrate to pages. I just released Tag Wrangler 0.5.0 with the ability to create Tag Pages so that one can convert a tag to a hybrid tag/page, and migrate tags to links via the “unlinked mentions”.

At some point, I may add a function for automated conversion in one direction or both to the plugin, but at least at the moment it gives you some maneuvering room between the two, without needing to decide once and for all that you’re using tags or links: tag pages let both co-exist at the same time for a given topic or state. And they’re especially useful for dataviews on state tags, as you can hover-preview them from the tag pane.

In a way, tag pages give you a privileged set of pages that can be readily accessed from a sidebar pane, which can make it easier to do hierarchical organization similar to Dendron – i.e. you can make a hierarchy of concepts in tags and link them to pages, even without the pages themselves needing to be named that way or in a folder hierarchy.

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