I wonder if, the tags associated with a certain card could be introduced in multiple fashions:

• the way it is now, one box at a time
• separated by commas in one box
• separated by just a space in one box

what I'm trying to get to, which is the very initial attraction to wagn philosophy, is the ability or proposal to use it however one sees fit and the tags seems to be a unilateral.

--Raul Chinda.....Fri Jan 09 06:19:15 -0800 2009

We definitely need much better, more flexible tagging. We haven't really put a lot of focus yet on tagging per se. The reason John put your comment on this card is that we've been using a more generic card type (called Pointer) to build a tagging system.

I haven't yet figured out how best to make a tag interface work with comma- or space- separation, because of the fact that Wagn cards can have commas and/or spaces in them. There are a few possibilities:

1. Limit which cards can be tags.  Right now they all can be, no matter how long or weird the name is.  Typically, tags don't have spaces or weird characters - they're just letters and numbers.
2. Make tagname versions of each card name.  For example, EthanMcCutchen could be the tagname variant of Ethan McCutchen.  Wagn already overlooks weird characters when determining whether a name is unique.  (you can't have one card named "What" and another named "what@#$?"
3. We could come with some other separator.  Not a lot of great options
4. We could do comma separation and say if there's a comma in the cardname, either leave it out or escape it.

Not sure, but I'm pretty excited to make some progress on this.  Thanks for the nudge, Raul!

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Sat Jan 10 15:30:30 -0800 2009

Yes, i was assuming that whatever we come up with for tagging would be implemented as part of the Pointer cardtype. By the way, in some tagging systems, spaces are allowed in tag names, in which case they often use commas to separate the tags. According to this, others sometimes use quotes or escape characters as well.

  --John Abbe.....Mon Jan 12 18:41:51 -0800 2009

hi guys, I did craft a wonderful (lol) response for this but than I lost it. I think the semi-colon could be used in a very good way for tags. here are my thoughts:
- we can have full sentence/fragments or single words define a tag
- acording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi_colon the use of the "semi-colon" will line up with it's definition in western languages
- the search could be improved thru substitution of synonyms to give a wider range of return that pertains to your searched subject
- coming back to my sliders :) one inputs a string of words and the search returns to a degree of error. the slider let's you adjust, on the fly, that degree - in turn returning a greater or lesser collection

  --Raul Chinda.....Wed Jan 14 07:21:14 -0800 2009

ooh, I like the semicolon idea. It's a similar challenge to the comma, but there are *much* fewer cards that use semicolons in their names, and I think it will read well.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Wed Jan 14 10:13:14 -0800 2009