After many years of using Logos, I have at last come to see the light of Mo’s wisdom of tagging. I'm now working at tagging all my resources. As Mo has said, monographs contain many jewels that are easily overlooked without tagging. Maybe I'm over zealous by tagging even the non-monograph books. I'm getting worried that some subject groups (i.e. CommentaryExegetical) could become so large that the number of hits in a search would too unmanageable to sift through.
Should “Non-Monograph” resources be tagged at all?
I thank you for your advice on this.
- I learned a long time ago, and quite honestly struggled in that learning process about order of words. This was back in the beginning days of computers and warehouse inventory. Their rules always placed the noun first, analogous to what George said about the broader category. The noun is then followed by adjective(s). An example pertains to authors, I tag some but not all authors. When I do tag, the tag begins AuthorThenName. My problem is sometimes I'll go with AuthorFirst_nameLast_name, but sometimes I'll use first & middle initials instead thus breaking my naming rule. But Logos covers for me, because it will group all Author tags together when the library is sorted on mytags. Then there are just times that a naming rule won't make sense, and voila another variation surfaces until another idea or more information pops up and a grouping category can be used. For example I've got 2 standalone tags: Quran and Religions. the Quran tag will probably stay like it is. But the Religions tag not sure where to put the one resource that is in. I have multiple tags that group under Tradition, like TraditionLuthern, or TraditionRomanCatholic or TraditionCatholic but can't seem to find a subset for that one resource in the Religions tag. Someday it'll come to me :)
- I tag all the books I can, even Bibles, commentaries, etc. Some I need to go back and add more tags to. All of my books aren’t tagged. If I can’t come up with a logical tag for them, I don’t, but most of them I can.
- Tag those resources with #LATER and as you find time you can read more and maybe come up with a logical tag, maybe #DoesNotCompute or Illogical