# Tag Systems - Host: [buttondown.email](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/buttondown.email/) - Saved: February 2, 2023 (2023-02-02T15:37:19Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5708ec15d35b/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5708ec15d35b.json ## What Jamie wrote This is a delightful blog post that walks through several different approaches to "tags" in systems. This is a great example why a request to "add tags" to a product is so completely lacking in clarity that there is nothing that you could do. It also highlights how different tagging approaches will work better or worse for the specific problem that you are trying to solve. ## Facts - Kind: [Newsletter](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/newsletter/) ## Appears in - [WT240: Weekly Thing #240 / Shapes, Tags, Ubiquity](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/240/), Notable ## Same host - [Buttondown](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e6ef753e1282/) (buttondown.email, January 31, 2019) - ["Naming Things" is a Poor Name for Naming Things • Buttondown](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a56bb3fdf6fa/) (buttondown.email, February 18, 2021) ## Saved the same week - [Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine - The Verge](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b758688f457b/) (theverge.com, February 2, 2023) - [Crypto Theses for 2023 | Gravity Fund](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/af266f040f72/) (gravityfund.vc, February 2, 2023) - [The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/69f0665574cf/) (arstechnica.com, February 2, 2023) - [The Magic of Small Databases](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/020efaa3df94/) (tomcritchlow.com, February 2, 2023) - [Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/253b752a1fd1/) (pluralistic.net, February 2, 2023) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/tag-systems/