Really, there should be a hierarchy of tags.
This is the best way of doing tags I have found so far for OneNote, but if you really want to do it the way it should be done, you need to look at Wrike. To varying degrees, I have looked through maybe 100 File/Item/Document/To-Do Managment applications/web apps/apps, and this is the best one in terms of being able to organize stuff. It's amazing that it's the only one that gets tags right.
So, it would be good if you could have like a tag hierarchy panel (like a folder hierarchy panel - like Wrike does) and if you click on a node, it will show you all of the items tagged with that tag.
This tag panel maybe should include a tag filter subpanel - in order to constrain the tag tree when searching for tags. The tag tree maybe should have checkboxes in case you want to select multiple tags by successive "UI filter & select iterations".
One question you will that will probably end up going through your mind at some point is:
If I tag an item with tag "A/B/C" does that mean that it is "tagged" with tags "A" & "A/B" also? I think Wrike says yes (I can't remember) - but maybe you can make it "optional" - in other words, you can always have floating around somewhere on the GUI some option that says something like "search/include intermediate/parent tags". This would be similar to the option of "include subdirectories" that you see everywhere with file/folder stuff.
Really, there should be a hierarchy of tags.
This is the best way of doing tags I have found so far for OneNote, but if you really want to do it the way it should be done, you need to look at Wrike. To varying degrees, I have looked through maybe 100 File/Item/Document/To-Do Managment applications/web apps/apps, and this is the best one in terms of being able to organize stuff. It's amazing that it's the only one that gets tags right.
So, it would be good if you could have like a tag hierarchy panel (like a folder hierarchy panel - like Wrike does) and if you click on a node, it will show you all of the items tagged with that tag.
This tag panel maybe should include a tag filter subpanel - in order to constrain the tag tree when searching for tags. The tag tree maybe should have checkboxes in case you want to select multiple tags by successive "UI filter & select iterations".
One question you will that will probably end up going through your mind at some point is:
If I tag an item with tag "A/B/C" does that mean that it is "tagged" with tags "A" & "A/B" also? I think Wrike says yes (I can't remember) - but maybe you can make it "optional" - in other words, you can always have floating around somewhere on the GUI some option that says something like "search/include intermediate/parent tags". This would be similar to the option of "include subdirectories" that you see everywhere with file/folder stuff.