A tabular index as laid out by John Locke in his book on a new way to commonplace

Index

Every good commonplace book needs an index, n’cest pas? I didn’t have the time or inclination to do what John Locke did, so I let my platform automate it a bit for me.

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    2 thoughts on “Index”

    1. In reading about the history of commonplace books, I figured it’d be nice to have a full listing of all the categories and tags on my website for public reference. So I’ve now added an Index page.
      I must admit that with a tiny amount of research and set up, I’ve now got something that even John Locke could be jealous of.
      For my future self or others interested, I’m using Multi-column Tag Map which has a variety of short codes for implementing various forms of output. Sadly it wasn’t tagged with the word index, so it took some time to find it.
      I’ve always had my own administrative interface for this data as well as search and even programmatic tag completion which makes writing and posting easier. However since a lot of what I do is in the public, perhaps it will be useful for readers to have access to the same full list instead of the abbreviated ones that appear as tag clouds or in various sidebars on the site?
      Currently I’ve got over 9,000 different tags on the site. Perhaps displaying them publicly will help motivate me to curate and manage them a bit better. I already see a handful of repeated versions based on spelling, spacing, or typos that could be cleaned up. Let’s go crazy!

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    2. Thinking about the difference between physical commonplace books and digital ones, the ability to have an easily maintained index that references posts directly came up. Right now I have the categories of posts displayed in the WordPress footer, but I’m not totally thrilled with that presentation, and would like to display tags somewhere as well which have much more variety and specificity — but there are many more of them. I think that would help towards making this site more useful as a digital garden (whereas right now it feels pretty blog-like), in seeing which things I tend to save or think about most.
      Chris Aldrich shared an index of the tags he uses on his website, using the WordPress plugin Multi-column Tag Map.
      Came across Gordon Brander’s topics page which appears to manually sort tags? Looks nice.
      For categories I’ve been thinking about a display of colored blocks on the homepage, with each category getting its own color that carries through the site — although many posts have more than one category so I’d have to be good about choosing the primary category to make that happen. I’ve been casually looking into WordPress themes designed for news websites since they’re often broken into categories, but haven’t found anything I liked so far.

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