Tag wrangling
20 August 2017 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI discovered hierarchical tags by observing other people's journals :-)
Spent the afternoon laboriously loading and editing, one by one, every single one of my eighty-plus journal entries categorised under the 'fiction' tag, in order to recategorise them under, say, fiction: blakes-7, producing a neat little list like this:
This goes some way at least to compensate for the inability to search on intersecting tags (e.g. 'head-canon' AND 'christine' in order to locate that post about Christine's headscarf - basically, once the number of entries under a specific tag gets too large to skim with the naked eye, the tag becomes fairly useless :-(
One thing it does teach you is the value of lj-cuts, which, thank goodness, I've always used...
The fic-meta tag probably ought to be sub-categorised into fandoms as well, but as that's another 92 journal entries to be loaded individually by date and have their LiveJournal crossposts manually disabled (to prevent the inevitable errors on updating) it's really not something I feel like doing.
And I'm not sure what, if anything, can usefully be done with the various character tags -- if I want to find a reference to a particular piece of discussion about a character, having a tag that points to all allusions to that character and his every fictional appearance is not very helpful.
Spent the afternoon laboriously loading and editing, one by one, every single one of my eighty-plus journal entries categorised under the 'fiction' tag, in order to recategorise them under, say, fiction: blakes-7, producing a neat little list like this:
- fiction
This goes some way at least to compensate for the inability to search on intersecting tags (e.g. 'head-canon' AND 'christine' in order to locate that post about Christine's headscarf - basically, once the number of entries under a specific tag gets too large to skim with the naked eye, the tag becomes fairly useless :-(
One thing it does teach you is the value of lj-cuts, which, thank goodness, I've always used...
The fic-meta tag probably ought to be sub-categorised into fandoms as well, but as that's another 92 journal entries to be loaded individually by date and have their LiveJournal crossposts manually disabled (to prevent the inevitable errors on updating) it's really not something I feel like doing.
And I'm not sure what, if anything, can usefully be done with the various character tags -- if I want to find a reference to a particular piece of discussion about a character, having a tag that points to all allusions to that character and his every fictional appearance is not very helpful.