user-supplied tags

[dkg]

This is a feature request, and probably a particularly low priority one. just noting it here so that there's a log of the idea and a place for folks to discuss if others are interested.

As a researcher, when i'm working on a particular topic it can be useful to organize my topics by supplying my own tags.

It would be nice when using TEC to be able to attach my own tags alongside certain articles.

This could be done entirely in the client side with tags stored in a user's cookies, without requiring a login at all.

There's a risk here that someone could lose their cookies and therefore lose their tags; this risk could be mitigated by allowing the user to export their tags to a file (probably, generated from their cookies by javascript).

In a more featureful implementation, users might want to share tags with one another, or submit them for inclusion in the canonical TEC database (presumably after some vetting by compendium administrators). this larger approach would be more work, but might be worth considering at some point, though the vetting can be a signficant amount of work if it's not planned well and there are no spam defenses.

[kernelmethod]

This is a great idea; it'd be great to make this part of a suite of client-side tools that users could have to make research a bit easier. E.g., it'd be really cool (and useful!) if you could group compendium entries together and export them together, and then share them with others.

I've just added #51 to add a "research assistant"-type tool. Once that's done, I could focus on adding features like this one!