hierarchical tagging system?

SCSchmidt

Hi everyone,
I was wondering, whether it'd be possible to organise tags hierarchically: So, I have a lot of papers discussing geographical areas and I tag them as belonging to geographical areas on different levels. I would like to be able to have higher-level-tags automatically added. So, if I've got something on "Central France", it will be automatically tagged as "France" and "Western Europe" and "Europe" as well.
I thought a feature that allows me to develop such hierarchies would be amazing!
Or is there alread a way I missed?
Thanks in advance!

wtarry

I agree, I would love this feature. In my view, tags should work like MeSH terms, where there is nesting within vertical hierarchies, but also crossover between horizontal hierarchical trees -- i.e. so that a tag can be in two hierarchies simultaneously. Of course, this would just be user-created tags, not automated tags. The no-longer-supported Sente had implemented this vertical hierarchical structure for tagging, and I think it worked very well overall -- I had used it for years as the primary mechanism for organizing a large library without needing Collections at all.

kdb_research

There's been a lot of discussion of this over the last five years, but no sign of progress or ways to do it. It would be great.

thomasjkimbrough

I agree. For multidisciplinary scientific fields especially, nested or hierarchical tagging would be great. You should be able to choose what parent tags are attached to each lower level tag. This would be a really great feature.

livey_liwei

I second this request!

MK-WU

Hello.
My request also points to the need to organize tags. Just the ability to group would be extremely helpful. Having only one (increasingly huge) set of tags for a library is messy, especially when working on different projects/papers. The tag-group function could be made analogous to the already existing "group" of automated tags (can be shown / hidden / deleted). Important: Several libraries = NOT helpful (because it requires a multiplication of items!). Woud be a huge improvement!
Thank you.