I might add that a properties/drawer is a sort of "official heading
metadata repo," while tags not so much. It would be nice to see (lots of)
examples.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 9:18 AM Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 2019-12-19 at 22:24 -08, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
> wrote...
> > Very simple, largely philosophical question: When/why use a properties
> > drawer below a heading versus just using tags on the heading? What are
> > the advantages, disadvantages of both?
>
> Tags are binary. They are there or not.
>
> Property drawers allow you to assign values to variables.
>
> I've never fully understood why some property drawers are set to binary.
> For controlling LaTeX export I have both a property ":clearpage: t" and a
> tag ":ignore:", and the tag makes more sense to me. Some of those may only
> exist in my personal config.
>
>   -k.
>