Hello, why is everything a page?

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  • Not everything is a page.
    • Everything is a block.
      • That’s an old discussion.
      • Pages are page-blocks.
        • That merely rephrases the question to “Why tags have their own page-blocks?”
  • It is good that tags are page-blocks.
    • That promotes them to “first-class citizens”.
    • The benefit isn’t immediately obvious.
      • There are applications with tags that are useful without this promotion.
        • It is useful to know when different pieces of knowledge share the same tags.
          • That is the generally known benefit of grouping.
      • But the real power of a graph is unleashed when tags acquire own content.
        • That includes own links to other pages.
        • It is even more useful to know when different tags of different pieces of knowledge relate to each-other.
          • That is the generally unknown benefit of associating.
  • The problem is not that tags are pages, but that:
    • they appear where you don’t want them
    • some of the entries look really bad:
      • numbers
      • gibberish
  • What is needed is a way to:
    • filter out unwanted valid entries
      • Unfortunately, there is currently no good filtering, other than custom advanced queries.
    • clean up invalid entries
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