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27 Aug 2007
Tagging in Yep
My second post on Yep looks more closer at the tagging support in this application. The fundamental idea of this application is that it allows a user to more easily manage his PDF documents. In order to help this management the application uses tags.
These tags must be set by the user. There is an auto-tag feature, but that does not work well for me. It might change when I tagged more documents. However one can define a set of tags taken from the file location, which works nice. I see a folder structure as basic tagging, just as using categories.
The user can type his tags into the tag field. The application helps here through auto-completion and a showing a set of popular tags. I noticed that I should follow a common set of rules for setting tags: no uppercase, no plural. But this also applies to the naming of my folders. I wonder whether I can change that. Or will that trouble my backup procedure?
Using tags for discovery of Items works quite nice. In order to use this one has to set the List-pane into tags-mode. This will show all tags as a tag-clous, which is presented as a list. The size of a tag indicates the popularity of the tag. Hovering over a tag shows that tag also on relevant Items in the Items-pane, which is nice. Clicking on a tag, changes the the Items in the Items-pane to only the Items with that tag. Thus this works similar to a pre-programmed smart-list. However also the content of the list-pane changes to show only the relevant tags for the new set of documents. This is similar to the browser approach of WebnoteHappy, but I prefer the latter. Interestingly I found documents that I did not place yet in the right categories (i.e. folders).
I think I like the application. I would like to see this approach for all files, or better for all printable files. I say here printable files, as these can be presented as PDF's. So I have to use the application a bit longer.