What is Tagging?
Posted by Joe Lichtenberg on Sun, May 04, 2008 @ 08:42 AM
Most everyone is familiar with using folders to organize their files, thanks to Windows Explorer, Mac OS, and the gazillions of products that use the folder paradigm.
Not everyone is familiar with tagging, though.
Sometimes using a folder structure works better, and sometimes tagging works better (which is why we built Eluma to allow objects to be classified using both tags and folders).
Some of the advantages of working with tags over folders include:
- You can add as many tags as you want to an object, so that you can later find the object by any of its tags. With folders, you'd need to copy the object into multiple locations.
- You can easily add and remove any tags on an object to reclassify it.
- Content within tags is self-organizing (watch the video to see what I mean by this and how folders don't enable this).
- You can usually infer what an object is about by reading its list of tags.
We created a short, informative video to illustrate the differences between folders and tags here: