Tagging is so passe'

Tagging is so passe'.

Manually adding keywords to stuff you do.

What we need is "tag suggestion" software.  Software that looks at what you have written, compares it to a corpus - perhaps your stuff, but perhaps stuff from others - and gives you the choice.

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Automatic email folder classification rules are so passe'...

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Gmail's labels are so passe'.  Same reasons.

(Plus the absolute lack of structure.)

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I have played around with Bayesian codes, for determining if tags or labels should apply.

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Gmail's "important" filter is a step.  But more needed.  Plus, a more personal classification system.

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I remember GNUS gnus-topic-mode.el  in EMACS fondly.  Realizes that at different times of the day, or in different modes, I may prioritize things differehntly.

THERE ARE NO FIXED PRIORITIES for personal information management.

My priorities when I am reading email on vacation, or in the evening at home, are different than in the day at work.

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Why tag?

Why not just use search?

Tagging is a crystallization of information content.  E.g. it records the fact that, at some time, you decided that a post was about VCS, Version Control Software, even though it might not contain the phrase in a way that seach would turn up.

Tags make it easier to track [[terminology drift]].  (TBD, need to write a wiki/blog on that).

E.g. what we call now VCS (Version Control) might have been called REvision Control years ago, or CM (Configuration Management).

Terminology drifts over time.  Tags make it easier to track such drift, although even tags drift.