Tagging best practices?

[jpatlik]

I've been toying with the idea of using tags to organise my ideas and relate readings to one another.

I'm still new to it, so I'd like to hear about you folks' use of tags. How much detail do you go into with your tags? Do you make just a few per paper/chapter, capturing the general idea, or do you tag every last concept you find (so that you can find all of the papers/chapters that discuss all concepts, even cursorily)?

Thanks!

J

[Behavioral]

Are you talking about physical or digital files?

Digital files (PDFs) are no biggie. Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, etc. all do this pretty straightforward and you can do it in as much detail as you want.

Physical, I don't do it at all. I have a digital copy (or at least digital citation) of my physical articles at all times.