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A Notebook Tagging Tutorial

Posted on: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 07:51 PM UT

I gave a talk at this year's International Mathematica User Conference titled: "The Joy of Tagging."  It covers some useful tricks for creating tools that manipulate the content of notebooks.  And these are some of the tricks that I use internally throughout A WorkLife FrameWork to implement all sorts of things.

You can get the notebook version of this talk from http://scientificarts.com/worklife/notebooks/

Here is the abstract of the talk:

One of the key elements of a Mathematica application that deals with a variety of documents is tagging. Mathematica's user interface for the tagging of notebooks is minimal, even though the functional interface is very powerful. This talk is about the tricks of the trade for tagging and manipulating notebooks that I have learned and discovered through creating a very large document-oriented Mathematica add-on called A WorkLife FrameWork. A great deal of tagging of notebooks is done in A WorkLife FrameWork, and this is used to create a very wide range of functionalities to automatically navigate among content, as well as to nonlinearly extract desired content from notebooks that have a random assortment of material in them—the wheat from the chaff. Also, A WorkLife FrameWork provides user interface tools to enhance and make much more useful Mathematica's tagging potential. I will describe how these tools were created and provide useful examples. The tricks that I will describe will allow you to design your own tagging tools whether or not you have a license to A WorkLife FrameWork.

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