Library Tags - My Tags, Community Tags what is it used for.?

Does anyone use My Tags to reorganize their library resource list ? Or what is it used for.

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I use them to tie related resources together e.g. Bible Study Guides is my most common addition. Because Community Tags rarely meet my needs, I tend to ignore them. For an average evangelical user I suspect they are more useful.

David Taylor, Jr.

I typically use my tags to form collections on the go while searching.

Mark Rolfe

I am new to logos. When I left or right click or double click on My Tags, nothing happens. How do you use My Tags?

DMB

Does anyone use My Tags to reorganize their library resource list ? Or what is it used for.

Just adding to MJ and Graham. I have all my resources tagged (5k or so). I never use collections (maybe once). And I don't query by any of Logos's various categories ... subject, type, series, etc. It's just a whole lot easier tagging, even if some front-end time.

As an example, I type in Comm40 and quickly have all my commentaries on Mathew. Done. I also re-title with prefixes, so they'll sort ... like in a 'Bible'. And if I type '40', I have everything on Matthew, no matter the type.

I also take advantage of Logos filtering as you type. General precedes specific. Like JewishTargums or JewishTalmud or JewishLaws. Typing jewish brings them all up, then more specific.

NB.Mick

Does anyone use My Tags to reorganize their library resource list ?

not re-organize but organize beyond what FL gives us in the fields in the library. Some examples:

I tag all commentaries and also monographs that deal with a specific bible book with its specific bible book number, such as #01 - Gen for Genesis and so forth, #61 - Mt for Matthew ... This helps me to see series in order (FL uses a similar numbering scheme in their filenames and there are "canonical" collection rules in the forum and the wiki. While I still have those collections, someday I may delete all of them since my tag has this information and I can save on startup time). It allows very easily to see all commentaries on a biblical book, construct searches limited to those books, and gives structure to the many type:bible-commentary resources - and some more who are different types. Beyond the subject field it allows me to include books which have a "weird" subject entry, and those who lack a subject like all edition:eBook monographs, even if they are commentaries (the EGGNT currently is a case in point). Yes I give ten such tags to a commentary that covers the ten minor prophets - and I'm glad to find all on e.g Nahum even if the series all 'slice and dice' the smaller books differently.
I tag all fiction books with a tag "fiction". This is something many users do, at least for edition:eBook (former Vyrso) books, so you'll see a community tag with this entry for many fiction books such as novels. I sometimes differ and tag "biography", sometimes I prefer a tag like "classics" or use both.
Thus it helps to run a search like tag:fiction -mytag:fiction to see potential candidates for mytag:fiction that I may have missed or tagged otherwise deliberately.
I tag all lectionary resources with their index tag (i.e. YMD if it is present, RCL, CathLC etx) - this is necessary because Logos does not (yet) expose the index information and other "traits" in library fields. I think I need this info.
Same goes as "RI" for all bibles which have Reverse Interlinears and an additional tag for those of them that do (and don't) work in the interlinear text comparison tool.
Those two are just samples of what I often look for. If I was starting with Logos now and with a smallish library, I'd tag all index information except page for all my books.
Sometimes I tag the "canonical" author names when Logos uses different ones supplied by their publishers - thus, being "sloppy" instead of precise and filtering for the author's name only instead of the content of the author field, I can catch all of their works (if one knows about the different names, one can OR them or search for a list)
I use some other tags that help me, like theological traditions Lutheran, Catholic, Reformed (incomplete for sure!)
I tag all resources with a tag "mystuff" (or equivalent for temporary licenses). Thus I can easily see untagged resources as new and in need of tagging.

Investing a few seconds every now and then into a tag (mostly directly upon purchase) allows being relaxed the year long, getting the results I need and not becoming too frustrated with incomplete or inconsistent metadata in the library.

Mark Rolfe

Thanks for all these replies and I'll experiment along these lines.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

Also use MyTags for resource information beyond Library fields

?Plagiarism? (with MyTag for plagiarism source: ?D.A.Carson?, ?F.F.Bruce?)
Apostolic Fathers (Subject metadata is incomplete)
Application (includes a number of eBooks that do not have Library metadata)
BibleApparatus (subset of Apparatus resources)
BibleGrid (subset of Bibles for searching with results in Grid)
Biography (Subject metadata is incomplete plus includes some eBooks)
Commentary grouping when written

Commentary1Antiquity
Commentary2Medieval
Commentary3Reformation
Commentary4Awakenings
Commentary5Modern
Commentary6Contemporary
Commentary7Recent

Commentary grouping by type, see thread => Collection rules for sorting commentaries (updated for Logos 8 Base Packages)

Commentary-Background
Commentary-Devotional
Commentary-Expository
Commentary-Intermediate
Commentary-Jewish
Commentary-Pastoral
Commentary-Technical
Commentary-Textual

Counsel (includes some eBooks that do not have Library metadata)
deprecated (old Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia resources that should not be used anymore)
Discourse (Subject metadata is incomplete for Discourse insights/discussions)
Family (includes some eBooks that do not have Library metadata)
fr (Friberg Greek Morphology: an Analytical Greek New Testament)
he (Logos Hebrew Morphology)
HebrewGrid (subset of Hebrew Bibles for searching with Grid results)
Headword Indexing (for various languages)

HW:English
HW:German
HW:Greek
HW:Hebrew
HW:Latin
HW:Spanish

Interlinear (Interlinear menu appears in resource)
InterlinearNT (Interlinear only in New Testament)
InterlinearTextComparison (Bibles enabled by Faithlife for Text Comparison Interlinear using Online connection)
js (Swanson Greek Morphology - 2 NT Resources)
lbs (Logos Greek Morphology - hundreds of Resources)
lemma (English Discourse NT has lemma tagging while lacking morphology tagging)
lls (GRAMCORD Greek Morphology - 4 NT Resources)
OldTestamentPseudigrapha (Subject metadata is inconsistent)
Survey (subject metadata does not identify General survey resources)
Top2 (Custom Commentary Series, see thread => Creating a New Series of Commentaries)
Topical (Subject metadata unhelpful for Topical Dictionaries & Encyclopedias)

Keep Smiling [:)]

Bruce Roth

I spent a significant amount of time tagging my books once I stumbled on a document by Bruce Dunning. Here is link to the most recent thread which has a link to the updated document showing his tagging system. I took from that what I wanted and made my own.

http://community.logos.com/forums/p/194226/1120286.aspx#1120286

I tag books once they are added to the library. Just takes a couple of minutes. Very useful to filter the library looking for a set of books on a topic or book of the Bible.