Now that I am no longer using the Garden I wanted to repurpose the 'wiki style' double square bracket markup I was using to link between its pages.
I had previously added markup to turn any text into a search link but haven't really used it. I think part of the problem is that the search takes you away from the post you're reading.
Dave Winer mentioned his tagging feature a couple of days ago and this seemed like a perfect fit. So I blatantly copied it. 😆
Now, if I include text within double square brackets it becomes clickable and opens a dialog listing all posts [[tagged]] with that text.
I already detect if the call to the content filters is coming from the files that build the RSS feeds so can ignore tags there to avoid any issues.
I'm not sure how this will sit alongside the existing 'post labels' but will see how it develops and how I use it. The advantage is that it's more flexible and I don't need to clog up other areas (like 'Start Here') with lots of labels. Tags aren't stored in the database like labels, they are checked when showing the dialog.
Note I have also removed tags on the homepage.
