(Archived) Help me understand tag trees.

[pruppert 4]

I just tonight discovered that you can arrange tags into hierarchical trees. Can someone enlighten me as to what function this serves?

I assumed that I could run a search for the supraordinate tag and this would return all notes with that tag as well as all notes with the subordinate tags in that tree as well. But this doesn't seem to work.

So what is the purpose or function of the tag tree? I am not being sarcastic here. Just trying to learn its purpose and how others are using it. Finally, can the tag tree be utilized in search? Thanks.

[jbenson2 2,147]

Think of the tag tree as "eye-candy". It makes the left panel easier to navigate by grouping similar topics.

But there is no association or link or hierarchy between a parent tag and a child tag.

Here are a couple examples of a parent and child tags:

• Acronym
  
  • CAIR
    CBO
    CFB
    CIA
    CPSIA
    CRS
    

• Insurance
  
  • Car
    Dental
    Home
    Life
    Medical
    

I would not recommend you use a similar name for both the parent and child. It will mess with the search results.

For instance, do not use:

• Job
  
  • Job-Abc
    Job-Def
    Job-Ghi
    

A better solution is to rename the parent tag:

• Work
  
  • Job-Abc
    Job-Def
    Job-Ghi