Comment 3 for bug 575118

Great. This idea seemed mostly DOA when asked in Bug #492486 . One point, the OP for this bug asked for non-hierachical tags. That's fine if he doesn't want to build a hierarchy of tags, but the feature would be more useful if it DID allow hierarchical tags like
[personal:finance:WAMU]

With a hierarchical side bar view. Like, wikidpad, but better (it only allows two levels).

I again repeat the request to (optionally) squeeze the white space and/or fonts too in the side panel. Especially if more things are added, like the tags, Zim just doesn't fit enough stuff over there.

Here's an idea, what if the tags are just a special type of link? LIke the user is on a page about [[travel]] and inserts a tag for [[food:mexican]]. Automatically (not like now) the page [tags:food:mexican] is created with a link in it to [[travel]]. For that matter just making all links automatically create blank pages(if not existing) half solves the problem but still requires the uncomfortable use of looking for backlinks. The only extra bit needed is that for some special links recognized as tags.. a forward link gets placed in that page and these special links are separated in the side view (under tags). These special links could be recognized by a different markup or simply by [[tags:food:mexican]], where the top level "tags" triggers the extra behavior.