{"id":10389,"date":"2022-03-13T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2022-03-13T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T17:38:10","slug":"good-and-bad-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10389","title":{"rendered":"Good and Bad Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my post <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10363#disqus_thread\">How To Use Tags<\/a> describing Karl Voit\u2019s perspective on the use of tags, Christian Tietze <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10363#comment-5786853713\">pointed me to a post by Sascha Fast<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/zettelkasten.de\/posts\/object-tags-vs-topic-tags\/\">The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags<\/a>. Fast makes a good point. The TL;DR is that you should use <i>object<\/i> tags instead of <i>topic<\/i> tags.<\/p>\n<p>Fast illustrates the difference with the \u201cdiet\u201d tag. If you think of it as a topic, you get all sorts of things thrown into the bin. If it\u2019s in any way related or might be related to a diet, the diet tag will apply. The problem is that it\u2019s not very useful. The category is way too broad and when you search on your \u201cdiet\u201d tag you get too many entries, most of which are not what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, you treat your tags as naming an object, anything thing with that tag is in some way a diet. So \u201cThe Scarsdale Diet\u201d would get that tag because it\u2019s an actual diet but \u201chigh glycemic foods\u201d would not because although it\u2019s concerned with dietary matters it doesn\u2019t actually describe a diet.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at Fast\u2019s post for more detail on the distinction. Tagging can be a big help in searching for items but it\u2019s important to assign them intelligently. Voit and Fast\u2019s posts can help you devise an effective tagging strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my post How To Use Tags describing Karl Voit\u2019s perspective on the use of tags, Christian Tietze pointed me to a post by Sascha Fast on The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags. Fast makes a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-10389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10390,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}