A critique of tagging

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 5, 2023 at 02:28 PM

Thanks Steve, that’s helpful to know that date. I should have thought of looking for the date. Rather than changing his perspective on tags to a more limited view after his Second Brain book came out, Forte was taking a more nuanced approach in that book’s bonus chapter on tagging.
- Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Actually it was from 2015… something I hadn’t noticed at first,
>because Medium usually doesn’t show me articles that old.
> >Amontillado wrote:
>I’m out of free Medium articles, so I can’t check.
>>Wasn’t that anti-tagging article written in something like 2017?
>>
>>Seeing the value of tags is not as intuitive as it would seem. I
>>didn’t use them at first, and as of a year or two ago the author
>>of Taking Control of Devonthink didn’t use tags.
>>
>>Many paths to enlightenment. If I had to choose between tags and
>groups,
>>I could live without groups or folders. Seems weird, but look at the
>>folks who use The Archive. No folders there, just links and searches.