Comments on: Tagging things or thinging tags?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:51:59 +0000

iPhoto uses the same metaphor for albums -ie you drag photos onto albums.However, as you rightly say, an album is a ‘container’ . (However, I’m still uncomfortable with the idea of dragging big transluscent things onto small text areas$. I guess microsoft ‘borrowed’ the idea from iPhoto ?

By: marek

marek — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:36:33 +0000

And interesting that other cheap-ish apps (where cheap-ish means significantly cheaper than photoshop) do both, but see tag onto picture as primary – the help text for PaintShop Pro, for example, reads:

To assign a keyword tag to one or more images
1. Select the thumbnail, or thumbnails, that you want to tag.
2. From the left side of the Organizer, drag the tag onto the selected thumbnail or thumbnails.

• You can also assign a tag to one or more images by dragging the selected thumbnail or thumbnails onto the tag. In addition, you can assign tags to selected thumbnails by clicking the Image Information button on the Organizer toolbar and clicking the Apply button .

To delete a keyword tag

By: systematic viewpoints

systematic viewpoints — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:07:32 +0000

In June referenced your comments about tags on IT Conversations when I wrote about Google’s just-released Docs & Spreadsheets interface using folderish tabs (or tabbish folders?) here:http://systematic.hrblogs.org/2007/06/27/folder-tag-mashups-with-muscle-at-google/
Interestingly, Steve Clayton of Microsoft commented about Vista’s implemetation of tags being “massively underused”.

Personally I’m less interested in the mechanics of specific implementations than I am about the blurring of purpose and functionality between the two, is this a good thing, bad thing or evolution?

By: Hoàng Đức Hiếu

Hoàng Đức Hiếu — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:48:32 +0000

I haven’t seen the pane Marika described yet (I don’t have Vista). I would do it as a pane with tickboxes (can be multi-layered, and can be searched/filtered), and when a non-existent tag is searched for, offer to create the tag as a tickbox.

I don’t know how to cue the user that they can drag tags to form heirarchy.

By: Marika

Marika — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:37:27 +0000

When you start to write in the box the autocomplete feature suggests possible tags and the dropdown also remembers your recently used tags. For me it’s very easy and fast to use, I never even thought about dragging since I use multi-layered hierarchical tags.

By: davidw

davidw — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:11:46 +0000

Marika, I saw the right-hand pane, but it only had a box for creating new tags (and for rating the photos). The list of created tags was on the left.

By: Marika

Marika — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:53:05 +0000

Actually there is a lot easier way. In the right side of the photos there should be a pane where you can add tags and ratings to one or several photos. If you don’t see the pane you can open it by right clicking an image and choosing add tag (I’m not sure of the exact phrasing since I use a localized version).