I guess I’ve come to the conclusion - and I really don’t think it matters tooo much whether it’s personal or research or blog - that a certain heirarchy of tags is best. By this I mean that having a core group of tags is a very good idea, particularly if you want to just scan back through associated links.

But the magic comes from greater detail for me. I now use quite a lot of tags (not heaps but more than 2 or 3 ususally) augmented by a decent description. I do this because it makes searching more powerful both in terms of *how* I might remember a link (subject, author, title - each of which may come to mind when I’m trying to refind it) and more importantly, it allows a larger number of potential search terms to be used in the delicious search engine to retrieve a saved link.

So I might tag something with *essay* *geography* *australia* *smith* which will make it eminently retrievable —- it let’s me not have to remember *how* to remember, it increases the options for *how* it can be found.

2c

That I even noticed, checked out the properties, looked at the image alone and went off doing a couple of test screen caps to better observe the effects places me squarely into the nerd tray I suspect. Damn.

Although, to be fair, the fact that I hadn’t noticed this phenomenon until now also places me in the ‘closer to retarded than genius’ tray.