"Tagging" quick notes in dailies / journal

[nobiot]

@ethan

I’m having trouble understanding the role of tags

I understand the trouble. In Logseq, I do not see much difference between tags and links ^[1]. For Org-roam, tags seem to have a different meaning and usage from Logseq.

For your purpose, I would have a note for each system and write my findings there; no links or tags — I don’t write stuff for long-term memory in a daily journal. One is for storage; the other is for flow. If you have a reason to do so, I’d use a normal link and use backlinks to display them later.

Here is my definition and guidelines for tags in any note-taking system, which I apply to Org-roam (as well as any other). I don’t use tags much.

@nobiot

The tag is a label that you can use to group your notes. Tags are useful when you want to filter and find your notes through tens, hundreds and thousands of them in your file system. The mechanism and what you want from it seem simple but tags can be troublesome. Here are my own guidelines that I follow for tags:

• Do not use a lot of tags in one note; instead create topic notes (index or MoC notes) and add links to them
• Do not define many tags; they grow out of control if you are not careful
• Your tag system will evolve over time; don’t worry about changing it

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1. The difference between [[page links]], #tags, and properties:: - Documentation - Logseq

   If you’re anything like most people who first come to [[Logseq]], you may be wondering what’s the difference between a [[page link]] and a #tag

   Truth be told, the difference is primarily visual. For the most part, they are both the exact same in functionality. They both link to another page. If you click one it will take you to another page and both will appear on the linked references of that page as well. ↩︎