[Pmwiki-users] Re: Categories instead of hierarchies?

[Stefan Candea]

> I wonder if the ability to assign pages to categories would be another
> way of approaching the problem of how to organise pages in a flexible
> way. It seems to me that recategorising is perhaps simpler than
> restructuring.
>
> In the above example, we put all the pages in the Linux group, and we
> assign some of them to a SoundCard category.
>
> We might seek guidance from how libraries organise their online
> public access catalogues. As I understand it, the hierarchy lies in
> the categories, not the books themselves. And a book can belong to
> multiple categories of course.
>
> If anybody thinks this is worth exploring, I'm happy to write up a
> page on how it might work.
>
> --
> JR
> --
> John Rankin
>

It could be, please go right ahead!

--
Stefan