The qipit team is happy to announce the latest product feature: tagging! What is a tag? According to wikipedia, a tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information, such as a picture, article, video clip (and now a qipit document), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of the information it is applied to.

Tags are usually chosen informally and personally by the author/creator or the consumer of the item — i.e. not usually as part of some formally defined classification scheme. Tags are typically used in dynamic, flexible, automatically generated internet taxonomies for online resources such as computer files, web pages, digital images, and internet bookmarks (both in social bookmarking services, and in the current generation of web browsers - see Flock). For this reason, “tagging” has become associated with the Web 2.0 buzz.

What’s the purpose of tagging your qipits?

Tags are an efficient way to manage, track and sort all of your captured information. When you tag your documents using qipit, the tags are placed inside the PDF document, this will not be visible to the casual user. As a result, the tagged qipits become searchable on your computer and easily sorted via a tag cloud on the qipit website.

What’s a tag cloud?

A tag cloud is a visual depiction of content tags. More frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.

Using a tag cloud makes it easy to sort documents related to a given subject, author, location, friend, invoice, job, etc. If you are a student you make want to tag your class notes with Professor Fowler, PHYS 330, Spring 2007, Why String Theory Does Sing. Using this tag structure you can easily sort by Professor, Class, Semester, of lecture. If you are a road warrior you can tag your receipts with Dinner, Jones, San Francisco, 4/25/07, Web 2.0 Conference 2007. Using this structure you can easily sort by Meal type, Client, City, Date or Trip. The great thing about tagging is that there are no rules, you use what makes sense to you!

The qipit tag cloud is on the left navigation bar. As you add more tags your cloud will grow.
Click on a tag in the tag cloud to display a list of the documents you have designated with that tag.

How do I use tags with qipit?

Creating tags using qipit is easy. On the My Docs page, in the documents section you will see a tag label just above the options menu (i.e. the orange bar with “Download”, “Email It”, “Fax it”). Click to the right of “tag:” click and field will become visible; simply fill in your tags separated by spaces. When you finished, press enter. The tags will be automatically applied to your pdf. The tags are editable in this same manner. You may also apply tags when you upload your documents directly using the web interface.

We hope tagging makes using qipit even more convenient and useful.
Have fun!

-the qipit team