[23 days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/17nmug7/comment/k7swcit/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) Many discussions exist about ways to use tags vs links and **opinions may differ.** Some users may use more tags than others. The Tag Wrangler plugin lets you turn a tag into a **Tag Page**. Here's a clip where Nick Milo [talks about tags](https://youtu.be/xVQGrn9gQKI?t=630) as he discusses his #8 plugin (**Tag Wrangler** as of 9 months ago). As of now, Tag Wrangler is number 16 on the list of most downloaded plugins. Nick in that clip says **'the death of tags has been greatly exaggerated."** Perhaps he said that because some users may use few tags and use other methods such as links to link information. But as his vault and the vaults of others show, we can use a mix of - tags, nested tags and links together along with folders and, if desired, Maps of Content (MOCS). In that video clip about tags and the Tag Wrangler Plugin, he shows the usefulness of **nested tags** and how Tag Wrangler can instantly rename a tag in over 100 notes if you use the plugin to rename a tag or sub-tag within a nested tag. --- There is a lengthy discussion about tags from Tiago Forte of Forte Labs (author of Building a Second Brain). In an old article, he was **against tags.** But, in his more recent post, he **changed his mind** about tag use. In the recent article he explores effective ways to use tags. Perhaps if there was a way that he could have said all that in a paragraph or two, he might have done it. But it's a comprehensive discussion about effective tagging -- from someone who was previously not in favor of tagging. [A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management](https://fortelabs.com/blog/a-complete-guide-to-tagging-for-personal-knowledge-management/) It comes with a label; **(Estimated Reading time: 25 minutes).** **Excerpt from Tiago:** > "I’ve **changed my mind** since then. Over several years of observations, findings, and experiments, I’ve come to believe that tags could be the missing link in making our knowledge collections truly adaptable – able to reorient and reconfigure themselves on the fly to enable any goal we wish to pursue. -- Let me tell you what I believe is required to unlock the immense potential of tagging for personal knowledge management." --- Today, I use more tags and nested tags than I did initially -- along with other things such as MOCs and links. Tiago talks about the Evernote user who long ago used hundreds of tags. Another Evernote user got into an online debate with the tag user. I saw the same discussions that Tiago saw. Perhaps that could have influenced the way he felt about tags in the past. However, I looked at the Evernote user's explanations and even though he used all those tags, it seemed to work for him. He used other Evernote features to make that happen. However, hundreds of tags did seem like a lot. The non-tag Evernote user's part of the debate may still be online. I used Evernote in the old days and my notes are full of tags - too many to count. Since the extreme tagger's content disappeared from the web, maybe over time he discovered that he was using t**oo many tags** in Evernote.