Tags Discussion - Support system wide tagging across all Official Nextcloud apps

Still thinking about this…

I find myself needing system wide context
and project specific context.
To-Do will mean something different when applied to:

  • Doug’s Nextcloud account
  • ProjectX, which Doug is working on

I suppose I’m looking for characteristics based on tags to help me sort through items which might be related. Nothing is integrated, but I find myself having hundreds or thousands of:

  • Bookmarks with folders, tags, and descriptions.

  • Notes in plain text and markdown, sorted into sub-folders. Tags can be added from the file system, but aren’t rendered within the app. See github request on attaching notes to any app, attaching a note to a “project”.

  • Contacts allow markdown description fields, but these cannot be accessed from the Notes app.

  • Deck allows markdown description fields, but these cannot be accessed from other apps.

  • Let's Talk about Projects - still in the early days of integration as we’ve mentioned previously in this Tag discussion thread above.

  • Dashboard is releasing contextual views for projects, but I’ve found no benefit to the dashboard because I already have RSS, which is extremely robust and mature when using services such as FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny, or Miniflux. One could even setup a carefully configured desktop and mobile RSS client for this same level of functionality while syncing their configurations via Files.

    • It doesn’t make sense for me to use the Dashboard when I just want to jump directly into the Files app itself, having already seen info from Activity, Bookmarks, News apps in my RSS reader or Nextcloud Notifications.
  • Groups and Circles for sharing projects with the caveats detailed in Circles or Groups

  • Dummy users created solely for managing projects. Group Folders app has proven too unreliable, so I don’t bother with it.

System wide tagging as a universal standard for apps to deploy would be really helpful in allowing greater interoperability between these apps. Just a complex, whimsical pipe dream, so thanks for reading. Too much information for me to describe it any further above. :+1:

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