There are lots of information management programs out there that ask you to tag your notes, ideas and files (think of Evernote, Springpad, PersonalBrain, etc). Why tag Regardless of the program you use, the purpose of adding tags to your data is to make it more descriptive and therefore easier to organize and find later. Having used 4 or 5 different tools that use tagging, none of them provide any guidance on how to do it efficiently (read best practice). So here is the approach I have adopted.

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