Improve Your Map Iteratively
You may not think of all the tags or the best tags for a Resource when you add it to your knowledge map initially. Later you may think of additional tags, or better tags. So you can edit the Resource and make those changes to the tags. This way the map becomes better and better over time, and you make it serve the exact purposes you want.
Find The Right Tags To Map An Area, Then Use Them Consistently
Which tags to use to map an area of knowledge? You may start with some initial tags and then refine them over time as you add more and more to your map. The important thing is to use the tags consistently, whichever tags you decide on. The website facilitates this with tags suggestions from your existing pool of tags.
Use Tags To Document The Connections In Your Head
The tags you assign to a given Resource document and reflect the areas of knowledge which you see as related to that Resource. Do you see the Resource as relevant to
creativity? Adding those tags will make it visible which connections like that you’ve made in your head. This is a method to make the connections in your head visible to you and others.
Use Levels Of Granularity – General Tags And Specific Tags
There are very general tags like
physics and similar. Then there are more specific tags like
optics and so on. For any Resource, you might assign general tags if it relates to a general area of knowledge, but if the Resource also has detailed specific information, you can assign it more specific tags (this can be either in addition to or instead of the general tags).