[Feature Request] Generate a list of tags per Silo

[morgandavidson]

The use of tags has many advantages over hierarchical document management. However, there are some drawbacks to using tags, including forgetting the names of tags you've used in the past, and using different tags in different documents to express the same idea.

One solution to this problem is to maintain a list of tags.

To facilitate tag management, it would be useful to have a function that generates all the tags present in a silo, without duplicates.

[protesilaos]

From: Morgan Davidson ***@***.***> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 05:32:09 -0800 [... 5 lines elided] To facilitate tag management, it would be useful to have a function that generates all the tags present in a silo, without duplicates.

The function 'denote-keywords' should handle this. If, the user option 'denote-infer-keywords' is non-nil (the default), this function returns all the keywords that are present in the files in addition to those declared in the user option 'denote-known-keywords'. But maybe you want something more? Like to have those collected into one large list that includes all the silos?

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[reyman]

Hi,

I'm also interested by such functionalities around better managing tags.

I think there are some missing things to better manage keywords workflows from users (but perhaps this is already existing in denote?) :

• Function(s) to make some "tag gardening" interactively, like explained in Karl Voit blog note (https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/02/tag-gardening-publicvoit/). This is not uncommon to rename, merge, delete one or more keywords when you build your notes from bottom-up.
• Using existing org TAGS functionnalities to retrieve tags : ie if denote found a "tags.org" file in a folder/subfolder/silo of a knowledge base, it also propose these tags during completion. Tags could be added/merged function of hierarchy of folder/subfolder and existing TAGS file at each level.
• Auto-assigning one or more tags when we create a note in a subfolder, for exemple assigning "private" tags is the note is created into "/my-blog/private" note subfolder. Probably this could already be done using capture : Denote org capture a template to save in a subdirectory #132 ?

Best regards