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categories vs. lists vs. tags

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In your notes about MilkSync for Windows Mobile you note that the categories in Windows is the List name. I'm curious as to why that choice when all of the MS apps I've used so far allow for the assignment of multiple categories to a task item. Wouldn't the tags for a task be a more logical choice?

I did some research and found that even in the iCAL format specifications ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt) it appears that the category parameter can be assigned multiple values.

Personally I would like to see the tags used for categories in the future as it seems to be a more versatile option.

Or if you want to get really tricky, allow the user to define which value gets used for the category (Tag or List) in the account settings. Then the user gets to decide which method works best for them.
Posted at 12:06pm on May 7, 2008
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