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I just gave up and mimicked tags with symlinks and subfolders. ie "foo" is tagged "todo" if there's a symlink to it in "Tags/todo/".

It works surprisingly well, since I can manage it with standard shell scripting.



Interestingly, this is effectively a tag hierarchy (orthogonal to the content), which is also a DAG.

https://twitter.com/mikeybtags/status/1582509479806980096?s=...

I wonder what disadvantages such a tag hierarchy has?

I imagine enforcing the acyclicity is hard/effortful.

Using (inherently hierarchical) folders (with no symlinks for folders) enforces the acyclicity constraint, and avoids diamond issues, so that’s neat.




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