Embrace tagging chaos
I've written before on one of my old blogs about tagging and the importance of not keeping it too organised. I had a habit of not wanting to create a new tag uness I was certain I'd use it again for other things.#
I also had a bit of a habit of of nesting them, creating monstrosities like travel:england:resource:walking.#
I'm now more relax. I have 2,871 tags for my 21,229 bookmarks on Pinboard.#
Because they're created by my brain, I often suprise myself when I see a tag has already been created for something I'm bookmarking.#
Today I was bookmarking a page about a graphic for a blueprint of Sherlock Holmes' flat. The website was old looking – lots of plain HTML. So I tagged it old.web. And to my suprise, I'd already used that tag for a page about Charles Darwin and a Usenet archive.#