Is there any practice guidence on tag usage?

Ryanwyu

01/27/2014 10:24

As it is very convenient to use tag, there are always many tags created. Although it is easy to seach, there are also many reductent.

I would appreciate to learn any good practise of tag usage from you.

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• Folke  (积分：2425)01/27/2014 11:52
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  I would like to use Tags more. They have great potential. But as it is now, Doit is lacking some features to make it worthwhile to apply them:
  
  - they need to be visible for each task in the list so that you can doublecheck them and so that you can use them for "ocular filtering"
  
  - they need to be visible in a toolbar so that you can quickly limit the contents of your list (In v4 they were moved in under a menu, which is more troublesome, and the regrouping options are also too troublesome to get to; also under a menu.)
  
  - they need to be applicable to projects and goals for managing Areas and other things, and would need to be applied automatically to all tasks inside
  
  - they need to be filterable in Boolean AND, OR and NOT (especially NOT is important, to temporarily hide things from the list). This applies both to the advanced saved filter and to the temporary ad hoc quick filter of the list.
  
  - they need to be better harmonized with contexts, projects, goals, and priorities so that you can use them all combined for quick ad hoc "tag filtering" of the list in front of you. One way would be to have the capability to "tag" all such other things ad hav tasks inherit the tags. Another way would be to have user preference setting such as "Kale goals available in tag filter, "Make priorities available in Tag filter" etc.
  
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• Ryanwyu  (积分：280)01/28/2014 06:14
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  @Folke Thanks for reply! Do you have any suggestion or samples how you are usig the tags? What kind of scenarios or messages can be used as tag?
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• Folke  (积分：2425)01/28/2014 21:00
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  @Ryanwyu - the kind of things I would like to use Tags for more, if I had some of the additional capabilities (such as a NOT filter and the tags being visible in the list etc), and which I have used in other apps to a larger extent than in Doit are:
  
  1) more detailed "minor contextual factors" (requirements) such as:
  - individual people or types of people needed for me to be able to do the task, e.g. John or Lawyer
  - inner mental preconditions, e.g. energy, mood, spirit, attitude etc
  - physical/ambience requirements, e.g. silence
  - timing requirements, e.g. mornings, evenings, short, long
  
  2) areas of responsibility and groups of such areas (via inherited tagging of projects/goals)
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• Ryanwyu  (积分：280)02/07/2014 15:50
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  Thank you so much @Folke! It's very useful!
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• lisa_alway  (积分：530)02/16/2014 08:30
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  hi, i am also struggling a bit with how to use tags in their current form now, not think of how they would be best in the future, folke, how do you use them right now? if you don't mind sharing?
  
  
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• Folke  (积分：2425)02/19/2014 12:25
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  Lisa, I do not really dare to rely on tags at all since I cannot see them. But despite that I do apply some - don't know why - maybe in the hope that Doit will make them visible soon or that I will not have mis-tagged too many tasks.
  
  I apply people tags for rare few people that I have a lot of dealings with. This then works in conjunction with my @Person context. I will still see the same tasks if I group by context, but the tags (if applied correctly) make it possible to find tasks for these people without first grouping my list by context.
  
  And I apply a Low Effort tag and a High Effort tag for a rare few tasks. The Low Effort tag is for finding quick'n'easy tasks when I feel stressed. The High Effort tag is for detecting thunder on the horizon. (By effort I mean time, energy, repulsion, whatever - nothing scientific.)
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