Cimorene

But the thing is, 99% of the time when I'm setting a tag I'm not at the delicious site and I can't see my bundles. I've just finished reading the story, and I've hit the key to open the little entry popup box where it pre-fills some stuff, I add my summary, and I start typing in tags - and as I type in the first character(s) it drops down suggestions, and then I hit enter and it saves. That's where the categories become key!

If I think I have a theme for stories where they break up and get back together (I do! it's a big kink with me! but honestly I don't remember what it is), then I start typing [theme: and it instantly drops me down a list of like 15 top tags that start with that - easy then to remember which one it was. To make it the lists smaller, I do things like section merlin themes into [theme-merlin:] so I quickly get to just the merlin-specific themes (I get really in the mood for certain kinds of stories in certain fandoms, so for example I like to tag merlin with "magic-discovery" and "exile" themes and supernatural with themes like "demonic!winchester")

Otherwise, maybe I guess... I did breakup? maybe if I'm right, it will come up. But what if it was brkupmakeup? Or something else? I will have to guess every possible combo, and who knows what made sense at the time? And then I'm constantly having to go maintain my tags and clean them up, and honestly that's an additional level of effort I'm not looking for and might not be ultimately sustainable (I know my weaknesses).

Or, like, fast and the furious - that's a real one that I accidentally made at least 3 fandom names for once-upon-a-time when before I went to categories. I have really really poor memory of stuff like that. I think at one time I had fntf and fast_furious and fastandthefurious and thefastandfurious, or something like that.

Easy fandom names like Merlin? I really don't need [fandom:merlin] as a cheat sheet. (unless I was foolhardy enough to title it merlinuk) But remembering if I use janeausten or austen or jausten or mansfieldpark for Mansfield Park fanfic? DIFFICULT FOR SILVIA. ;)