another “revolutionary” idea would be
to just manually include keywords (@ # + =)
into ANY title field of ANY program,
and then just use the usually fast regular search pane,
to each time find your desired notes.
Thus, if the search would be instant enough,
and if a search history / saved terms could be quick access ideally too,
It would provide the extreme benefit of also having
EVERY single content word as an automatic de-facto “keyword”
included in the search results too as a quasi less exact, but bonus “related hits” results,
that would appear listed after your (@ # + =) tagging signs.

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Feel free to add any other outliners
or special secret useful tips you know.

Greetings!

Posted by Christian Tietze
Apr 30, 2014 at 08:27 PM

Thanks for the list! I’ve never heard of some of the Mac apps, yet.

Actually, I prefer your other idea: I think it’s future-proof to add a glyph to keywords and put the resulting “#hashtag” (or “@keyword” or “$whatever”) into the title or the content precisely because you don’t have to rely on arbitrary file metadata, or worse, be locked-in by a program’s tagging feature.

What’s the purpose you collected these apps for by the way?

Posted by Neville Franks
Apr 30, 2014 at 09:41 PM

Tags along with auto-suggestion prevent issues arising from misspelling words. So if you enter #aeroplain, #airplane and #aeroplane in different articles and search for #aeroplane you won’t find content tagged with the first two. And regexp won’t help much.

Further, properly implemented Hierarchical Tags as we’ve done in Clibu, give you structure and make it quicker, easier and offer a far more reliable way to find information.

That said no one forces you to use tags, so if you just want to rely on searching (and hoping) then you can.

Christian Tietze wrote:
Thanks for the list! I’ve never heard of some of the Mac apps, yet.
> >Actually, I prefer your other idea: I think it’s future-proof to add a
>glyph to keywords and put the resulting “#hashtag” (or “@keyword” or
>”$whatever”) into the title or the content precisely because you don’t
>have to rely on arbitrary file metadata, or worse, be locked-in by a
>program’s tagging feature.
> >What’s the purpose you collected these apps for by the way?

Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 30, 2014 at 10:50 PM

Christian Tietze wrote:
>into the title or the content precisely because you don’t
>have to rely on arbitrary file metadata, or worse, be locked-in by a
>program’s tagging feature.

Yes, ideally you’d want to have the tags/categories etc. to be included within the exportable body of the file, below or above the content somewhere.

But besides the point Neville is making, another reason to keep the title clean of #tags etc. is to make it more human eye friendly, e.g. when you’re reading through a large list of titles, or when you want to include it as part of a link of some sort.

And one should be able to include the keywords (without the markers) as part of the descriptive title of an item.

Neville Franks wrote:
Tags along with auto-suggestion prevent issues arising from misspelling
>words. So if you enter #aeroplain, #airplane and #aeroplane in different
>articles and search for #aeroplane you won’t find content tagged with
>the first two.

Auto-suggestion (as a popup with an alphabetical list) is also useful for spotting mispelled tags or tags with both singular and plural form.

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