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October 08, 2007

Tags needed

Why oh why aren't there tags in Google Calendar? Oh my sweet Jeebus, I want tags for events! I get so tired ot trying to find every birthday, every speech, every "maybe" event. In fact, I try to use those terms — embedded tags! — in the content itself just so I can find the events again. Please, oh great Google, give us, your unworthy supplicants, calendar tags!


Wordie started out as a joke - a site that was all tags and no content. Now it's added tags. I have to run for a train, so I don't have time to step into its infinite loop of metareference, but John McGrath explains it all here. [Tags: tags tagging folksonomy google_calendar wordie ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at October 8, 2007 02:40 PM


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Badly needed in the addressbook as well.

Posted by: Luis | October 8, 2007 03:09 PM


I'll second that. For the past few years I've been prefixing all the subject lines of work appointments in my calendar with a category, so that I can find them again when I'm doing invoices!

Posted by: David Rendall | October 9, 2007 03:03 AM


If Gcal does add tags, it would be nice if tags could also be added to the iCal spec, so when we want to share Gcal events with non-Gcal calendars, the tags can travel to other calendars too.

Posted by: Scott Mace | October 9, 2007 05:33 PM


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