Use JD to organise your tags?

26/31 daily posts as part of WeblogPoMo2024. Expect (and forgive) more words and less editing.

Following on from 'thoughts on tags' the other day, my idea ā€“ which I have not tested ā€“ is that you might organise your tags using the Johnny.Decimal system.

The problem was that we had, say, 65 music genres. In a flat list. With many that felt like they overlapped with each other.

So just apply the principles of this system to the tags themselves. And I think you could treat a tag as being analogous to a category; you don't need to go all the way to IDs.

Those music genres might then become:

10-19 Rock
 11 Hard/metal
 12 Progressive
 13 Alternative
20-29 Electronic
 21 Ambient
 22 Techno/dance
 23 Synthwave
30-39 Blues & country
 31 Gospel
 32 Americana

...or whatever, you get the idea.

The point is that you apply the basic principles to your tags: only two deep, no more than ten, and so on.

Tagging photos

The obvious use-case is photos. I don't bother tagging mine,1 but many people do. So build a tagging structure that has whatever you need: location, scene, people, mood.

If anyone tries this out, let me know.

Footnotes

  1. My photo library is a hot mess. It's not organised at all. ā†©