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		aaronchall on July 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Categories for Your Note Archive Are a Bad Idea (2... Categories are mutually exclusive. Tags aren't. I much prefer searching in intersections of tags to searching for needles that may be in different haystacks.

Tomte on July 26, 2022 [–]

No, they aren't. Storage position is mutually exclusive, if you choose so, but that's not a property of categories vs. tags.

E.g. the Library of Congress assigns books to several subject headings (categories) where applicable.

astrobe_ on July 26, 2022 | [–]

Depends on what meaning you put on each word. There is no One True Meaning in this case.

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