Categories for Your Note Archive Are a Bad Idea (2015)

Re:Categories for Your Note Archive Are a Bad Idea (2015) by aaronchall on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:34AM (#32239738)

Categories are mutually exclusive.

Tags aren't. I much prefer searching in intersections of tags to searching for needles that may be in different haystacks.

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Re:Categories for Your Note Archive Are a Bad Idea (2015) by Tomte on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:22PM (#32240344)

No, they aren't. Storage position is mutually exclusive, if you choose so, but that's not a property of categories vs. tags.

E.g. the Library of Congress assigns books to several subject headings (categories) where applicable.

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Re:Categories for Your Note Archive Are a Bad Idea (2015) by astrobe_ on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:41PM (#32240616)

Depends on what meaning you put on each word. There is no One True Meaning in this case.

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