I just felt the biggest reason why I would like to have an easier way for long form writing, strictly meaning multiline nodes.
It’s because there is no way to tag many nodes at once in a good fashion...
Totally agree.
I would like to add that adding the ability to tag many nodes at the same time is not a sufficient workarround.
A single multi line node is not the same as multiple nodes writen one after another.
Sometimes, multiple lines add up to a whole, and each line only makes sense as part of that whole.
Every time a line is tagged, the other lines should be tagged as well. Every time a value is writen to a field of a line, the same value should be copied to the sme field of all other lines. Every time a line is referenced, the other lines should be referenced as well, and the reference should be ordered one after the other exactly in the right order.
An example:
An explanation that includes a diagram. In many cases, the explanation is structured in the following way: a simle explanation of the idea, a diagram, and then further elaboration. Right now, this explanation is forced to be split between at least 3 nodes, even though it is a single explanation. If I want to reference this explanation, I can't, I can only reference parts of it. I am forced to either reference all the nodes that the explanation contains and order them correctly, or reference only one node and hope that everyone looking at the reference will understand that it's partial and that they need to look at the original node.
I also agree that having a "title node" in the cases I presented is also not a sufficient workarround.
Some things don't have a title. I find that forcing the users to title things creates what I like to call "Title Hell", where you write everything that you want, but you are not finished because you cannot find an appropriate title for it.
It is frustrating, and it makes you resist writing, because you know that after you are finished with writing the things you acctualy want to write, you also have to do "chores" and choose a title for it.
And the worse part is that ussually the titles are worthless. You never use them when you search for what you wrote. And they convey so litle about the accual content that you have to constantly alias then whenever you use then as a reference anyway.
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Totally agree.
I would like to add that adding the ability to tag many nodes at the same time is not a sufficient workarround.
A single multi line node is not the same as multiple nodes writen one after another.
Sometimes, multiple lines add up to a whole, and each line only makes sense as part of that whole.
Every time a line is tagged, the other lines should be tagged as well. Every time a value is writen to a field of a line, the same value should be copied to the sme field of all other lines. Every time a line is referenced, the other lines should be referenced as well, and the reference should be ordered one after the other exactly in the right order.
An example:
An explanation that includes a diagram. In many cases, the explanation is structured in the following way: a simle explanation of the idea, a diagram, and then further elaboration. Right now, this explanation is forced to be split between at least 3 nodes, even though it is a single explanation. If I want to reference this explanation, I can't, I can only reference parts of it. I am forced to either reference all the nodes that the explanation contains and order them correctly, or reference only one node and hope that everyone looking at the reference will understand that it's partial and that they need to look at the original node.
I also agree that having a "title node" in the cases I presented is also not a sufficient workarround.
Some things don't have a title. I find that forcing the users to title things creates what I like to call "Title Hell", where you write everything that you want, but you are not finished because you cannot find an appropriate title for it.
It is frustrating, and it makes you resist writing, because you know that after you are finished with writing the things you acctualy want to write, you also have to do "chores" and choose a title for it.
And the worse part is that ussually the titles are worthless. You never use them when you search for what you wrote. And they convey so litle about the accual content that you have to constantly alias then whenever you use then as a reference anyway.