Notenik 15.2.0 has just hit the streets, and is now available in the Mac App Store.
It’s got quite a few nice improvements but for today…
Let’s talk about tags and Postel’s Law.
My New Oxford American Dictionary defines tag as “a label attached to someone or something for the purpose of identification or to give other information.”
Tagging is a well-nigh universal practice for organizing a bunch of notes, and Notenik has always had robust support for tagging. You can find the details in the Knowledge Base, if you’re interested.
But there are different systems for associating a tag with a text-based note, and Notenik has gradually expanded its support in this department.
Notenik’s original approach — which is still the default — is to expect the tags to be entered into, and saved as, their own field. Which has always seemed just fine to me.
But many Notenik adventures transpire as the result of an encounter with someone else who does things differently.
And I’ve always tried to have Notenik adhere to Postel’s Law, which states:
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
So another way of entering tags is to make them hashtags, by prepending a hash symbol (‘#’) to each tag. Evan Travers originally let me know about this, and so Notenik was modified to recognize and preserve hashtags.
And now, I’ve had a couple of users request a third way of associating tags with a note, by entering hashtags directly into the body of a note.
And so now, with the latest release, Notenik now supports this third approach as well, via a new Tags Handling option.
The goal, as always, is to maximize interoperability between Notenik and other apps and note-taking systems out there.
tags: tags