Are there any attempts at normalizing the use of tags for categorizing pages? I have not fully thought through how this might work. Roughly, I want to create different kinds of content and have a straight forward way to categorize them if that content belongs in more than one set. I guess this could be entirely up to me but I recall reading somewhere that “tags were catching on” but subsequently couldn’t find any specifics. As some standard might enable browsers and other software to use the information. I also understand if this is verboten as its scope creep, just wanted to check.
Jun 01 · 5 weeks ago
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🏕️ skyjake [mod...] · Jun 01 at 14:20:
There is at least this bot that indexes hashtags:
I've seen no real push to formalize tags as a community convention. There is virtually no chance they'll be officially part of Gemtext, and a tagging companion spec is unlikely IMO, which means client support is also unlikely to be forthcoming.
Best thing you can do is apply and index tags on your own capsule(s) the way you see is most beneficial for your own purposes.
☀️ sbr [OP] · Jun 01 at 14:55:
That makes sense, #topic after some other text seems like a sensible approach and easy to parse. I’ve started with folders already for primary category but some content branches so folder+tag will help me keep things organised. Thanks
ps. Got Lagrange on my tablet after finding the test flight link and its a bloody delight to use. Typographical design, mono emojis etc are fantastic. Using it regularly makes me loathe returning to a standard www browser.
Shout if you need any support, although my primary skillset is backend’y.
It's actually pretty complicated thing to do. I once spent a lot of effort trying to normalize my own tagging and failed.
Today an LM can do it effortlessly, but that is creepy.
☀️ sbr [OP] · Jun 01 at 18:37:
I don’t need the machines tagging for me, mostly curious if anyone had attempted to drive a standard.
🏷️ #thing #otherthing #thirdthing
Is what I’ve opted for, at the bottom of posts, its unobtrusive and means I can automate creating tag indexes by parsing for 🏷️
I tried first with the actual number/hashtag emoji (#️⃣) but it rendered the line as a # (h1)
As someone who has tagged every entry on my blog for the past 25+ years (it's basically a "behind-the-scenes" thing), about half the time I can't locate an entry based on what I think it should have been tagged with, but wasn't. I also ended up with, I think, as many tags as entries ... or was it twice the tags as entries? Anyway, it wasn't as useful as It thought it would be, but I still do it.
Tagging and taxonomies were an eye opener for me. Perhaps I am more chaotic than other people, but I find that future me is almost never in agreement with past me about how to name things!
Someone could do a PhD paper on this.
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