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@ -430,7 +430,12 @@ link structure:
: filetags --filter
User gets asked to enter one or more tags and she enters "scan":
User gets asked to enter one or more tags and she enters "scan". What
now happens is that filetags creates a directory whose content
consists of links to all matching files from your query. By default,
the resulting directory is =.filetags_tagfilter= in your home
directory. After invoking for our example, the content of this
retrieval directory looks like that:
: $HOME/.filetags_tagfilter/
: |_ 2018-06-25 Party invitation -- scan correspondence.pdf
@ -460,18 +465,21 @@ temporal link structure:
:ID: 2018-07-08-tagtrees
:END:
This functions is somewhat sophisticated with regards to the
background. If you're really interested in the whole story behind the
visualization/navigation of tags using TagTrees, feel free to read [[http://Karl-Voit.at/tagstore/downloads/Voit2012b.pdf][my
PhD thesis]] about it on [[http://Karl-Voit.at/tagstore/][the tagstore webpage]]. It is surely a piece of
work I am proud of and the general chapters of it are written so that
the average person is perfectly well able to follow.
This functions is somewhat sophisticated as it is not a very
well-known thing to have. If you're really interested in the whole
story behind the visualization/navigation of tags using TagTrees, feel
free to read [[http://Karl-Voit.at/tagstore/downloads/Voit2012b.pdf][my PhD thesis]] about it on [[http://Karl-Voit.at/tagstore/][the tagstore webpage]]. It is
surely a piece of work I am proud of and the general chapters of it
are written so that the average person is perfectly well able to
follow.
In short: this function takes the files of the current directory and
generates hierarchies up to level of =$maxdepth= (by default 2, can be
overridden via =--tagtrees-depth=) of all combinations of tags,
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link][linking]] all files according to their tags.
Too complicated? Then let's explain it with some examples.
Consider having a file like:
: My new car -- car hardware expensive.jpg
@ -492,9 +500,9 @@ linked directly to =~/.filetags= so that you can find and tag them
easily.
I personally, do use this feature within my image viewer of choice
([[http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/][geeqie]]). I mapped it to =Shift-T= because =Shift-t= is occupied by
([[http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/][geeqie]]). I mapped it to =Alt-T= because =Alt-t= is occupied by
=filetags= for tagging of course. So when I am within my image viewer
and I press =Shift-T=, TagTrees of the currently shown images are
and I press =Alt-T=, TagTrees of the currently shown images are
created. Then an additional image viewer window opens up for me,
showing the resulting TagTrees. This way, I can quickly navigate
through the tag combinations to easily interactively filter according
@ -860,6 +868,9 @@ results to curate your tags. My personal favorites are:
- Tags I have used which are not in my CVs.
- Unused tags.
This feature is really powerful when it comes to maintenance of your
file tags or get some insight related to your tagging patterns.
* Local Variables :noexport:
# Local Variables:
# mode: auto-fill