Tags, Wikis, and Zoot

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 17, 2011 at 09:04 PM

I also appreciate structure, whether it is built top-down (e.g. 2-pane outliner approach) or bottom-up (e.g. Brainstorm or corkboard approach). However, in recent years I have come to appreciate tags and internal links as complementary organisation tools.

- I started using tags in Evernote, which offers no alternative for organising information items, beyond its notebook/stack (2 level) approach. Along the way, I created an intricate tag tree which I now use in other software as well. In practice, I believe one should be able to achieve the same effects with a folder approach, as long as the software supports clones, i.e. the same information item appearing in several folders. This bypasses the “bat problem” in classifying the real world.

- Linking information items with each other (Personal Brain like) is something I find quite useful when expanding a concept.

At the end of the day, it would be great if I could have all these tools available to use depending on the context. There’s not much software that provides them all, but I can think of at least a few, namely Surfulater, UltraRecall and Zoot (?)