And This Is Why I Prefer Tags To Folders

[coraa]

Or:

I'm A Lumper, Not A Splitter

I just spent a solid five minutes trying to figure out whether to put one of my feeds (as managed by Google Reader) in the Feminism folder, or the Books folder. (It's the "Feminist SF - The Blog!" blog. Same problem with the Feminist SF Carnival blog.) Prior to this, I spent three minutes trying to decide whether "Whatever" went in Books, or Writing, or something else, being as he talks about books, and writing, and sunsets, and politics, and his cat.

Tags! Tags would solve this problem!

(Google Reader does actually support tags -- but only for flagging individual posts, not for categorizing entire feed subscription. For that, I'm stuck with the either-or of folders.)

EDIT: mbrubeck showed me how to add something to more than one folder. So my problem is solved! Yay!

Comments

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! :)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It's good to be back, even if I did bring a cold with me. :)

[mbrubeck.livejournal.com]

Google Reader totally does use tags for feeds, even if it calls them "folders" in some places. Note that you can assign any number of them to each feed.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

You can? Once I've added a feed to a folder, all I see is a "Change Folder" option.... Am I looking in the wrong place?

If I could add these to more than one category, that'd solve my dilemma nicely. :)

[mbrubeck.livejournal.com]

It actually says "Change folders" - you can select additional folders without removing the first one.

You can also do this in bulk under "Settings > Subscriptions" where they are (mostly) referred to as "tags."

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Yay! You are awesome. Thank you. :)