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On 10/16/2010 01:32 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> On Oct 15, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
> 
>> Karl Maihofer <ignoramus <at> gmx.de> writes:
>>> Besides that I have tags in other contexts, e.g. GTD-related tags etc.
>>> So it would be very useful to be able to group the tags as it is
>>> possible for agenda commands.
>>
>> I think that a way to define logical groups of tags (or even a
>> hierarchy of tags
>> -- say with a subtree of tag names?)  would be a very useful addition.
> 
> I can see that this could be useful - but the code is
> not in any way prepared to do this, so this would be pretty hard
> to implement.
> 
Is it worth exploring use of the properties drawer?  The tags in org are
a fairly simple and thus limited structure.  The properties drawer can
have a lot more structure with a more controlled environment.

R Horn