I’m curious how people are colour coding their cards. At first, I thought it would be a good visual way to identify cards across themes, such as Personal, Work, and Family.
I also had wondering if colours should be inherited from parent cards, should I structure my cards in a way that all of my work things have a parent of “Company A” card; is anyone doing anything like this?
My third thought was perhaps the tags should be used to assign colours, rather than a parent child relationship - but with multiple tags, I’m not sure how this will work.
I’d love to know how others incorporate colour coding into their cards.
hey! I’ve been using colour-coding since it was launched and I find it really useful for marking certain cards to catch my attention - as I’m studying law, I find it super helpful to have cases marked out as good or bad authority for future reference and for exams (yellow for questionable authority, red for overruled cases).
I do that for recipes too, marking ones I haven’t tried but think are worth experimenting!
Sounds like I’m using a similar system to what you’re describing - having all of your work cards under a parent “work” card. I find it to be an efficient and tidy system and, to a certain extent, it mimics a file tree hierarchy; in addition it allows me to nest a card under multiple parents to signify that a card can come under different themes.
Ultimately, I find links, tags, and parents better at sorting out themes than colours do, but I guess it depends on how you’re using Supernotes and the nature of the cards you’re writing
Assigning colours with tags would be fun! though I have too many tags and won’t have enough colours to correspond with them!
TLDR: I use both parents and tagging, IMHO this makes it easy to a) discover your cards b) query them with tags
So far I have found that parent/child relationships and the card tree help me conceptualize my notes when I am “discovering” my notes, but tagging them adds the most power for when I want to query my notes.
I tend to apply tag filters when writing card structures (parents/children), which automatically adds tags to any new cards I create. this means I can add many tags to cards in my structure instantly.
Personally, I’m trying to use colours like an visual add-on to tags. So, I’m colouring cards with #Todo tag as red, #Reading as orange, #Recipes as green etc.
This is why I suggested Tobias and Connor to add some kind of card’s properties grouping (tag + icon, tag + icon + color, parent + tag, etc). So assigning one item automagically adds all the other items defined in a group. In my example this will allow to automatically assign red colour when tag #Todo is assigned to a card (and assign #Todo tag if the card was coloured Red).
