Tags support

[vanadium23]

According to comparison with foam there is no tags support in vscode-memo.
Can we add this feature to roadmap?

[svsool]

Hi,

Good that you asked.

The reason for tags support missing is that I did not find any benefits over wiki links.

[vanadium23]

How do you deal with several articles over one main theme without glossary?

[svsool]

I use dangling links for that [[learning]] [[work]] [[books]] without creating them to the disk + Find all references command.

When time to add details comes, I add a file by following a link.

[vanadium23]

Seems cool, thanks.

[wbgt]

What if I want the intersection? I mean how can I locate 2020-08-13.md using both [[work]] and [[learning]], for example?

[svsool]

What if I want the intersection? I mean how can I locate 2020-08-13.md using both [[work]] and [[learning]], for example?

I think search features are out of the scope of this issue and not something that Memo is good at. Currently, I'd use regex pattern matching and built-in search for that. In the long term, perhaps a filtering panel could be introduced to filter links using boolean logic, which should be more user friendly and (maybe) less flexible/powerful than regular expression 🙂.

[wbgt]

Thank you, I understand. By the way, I have used vscode-memo for a while, I love it. However, with the files cumulated (thousands of them in my subject, and increasing), the time for getting backlinks significantly increases, due to more and more disk access. Do you have any idea about that?

[svsool]

Thank you, I understand. By the way, I have used vscode-memo for a while, I love it. However, with the files cumulated (thousands of them in my subject, and increasing), the time for getting backlinks significantly increases, due to more and more disk access. Do you have any idea about that?

Thanks for your feedback on Memo, that's valuable. About backlinks slowness, this was mentioned by me before. Full-blown indexing should improve performance, but is not a trivial functionality to implement, in Memo's case it is sort of a cache and caching is a hard problem for many reasons. I think it's out of the scope of this issue. Please open another issue and describe your problem there, along with the size of your knowledge base.

For now I will close this issue. Author could reopen it if there is something to add on tags support vs wiki links.

[joellti]

What if I want the intersection? I mean how can I locate 2020-08-13.md using both [[work]] and [[learning]], for example?

I think search features are out of the scope of this issue and not something that Memo is good at. Currently, I'd use regex pattern matching and built-in search for that. In the long term, perhaps a filtering panel could be introduced to filter links using boolean logic, which should be more user friendly and (maybe) less flexible/powerful than regular expression 🙂.

I would love to see filtering panel on your roadmap. With files growing this becomes more of the priority to have. Thx @svsool for your consideration.

[t1u1]

I use dangling links for that without creating them to the disk + Find all references command.

So, to support tags, can you automate this? That is, when we click a tag, it should automatically start a find all references command.

Supporting Tags would be useful for those migrating from other tools such as Obsidian.

[vanadium23]

@t1u1 I've make a separate plugin to support hashtags: https:/vanadium23/markdown-hashtags