Finally, list tagging is here! I think this feature will become very useful over time.

I took some time to go through all the lists available. In between the many, many textbook-oriented lists, there are some real gems.

I decided to introduce a tag called daily-life ( http://www.skritter.com/vocab/tags?tag=daily-life ) for useful stuff like names of fruits and vegetables, office stuff, home words (bedroom, kitchen, ...), musical instruments etc. Let me highlight benreitz, who created a number of really useful lists in this category.

I tagged a few lists with most-common ( http://www.skritter.com/vocab/tags?tag=most-common ) (thanks to whoever created this tag), started a new tag called textbook ( http://www.skritter.com/vocab/tags?tag=textbook ) but grew tired very quickly.

Finally, I also found some lists that I clumsily tagged as domain-specific-vocabulary ( http://www.skritter.com/vocab/tags?tag=domain-specific-vocabulary ). Maybe someone can come up with a better term for this.

Any other good ideas for tagging?

PS. Decided to add "chinese-culture" as well. See http://www.skritter.com/vocab/tags?tag=chinese-culture .

If someone with super powers could rename my non editable published list from "Top 100 words found in TV subtitles" to "Top 1000 words found in TV subtitles" that would be neat (:

@xkfowboa
Ah is it 1000? Even better! I've been studying that for a few days now, thanks a lot

@Christian I would call those lists "jargon" or "specialized vocabulary".

Awesome tags, guys! Thanks! I saw a couple in Chinese--it would be good if we could keep them to English, though.

I've fixed the title of that list.

I totally agree that tagging is fun. Oh wait, you meant in Skritter. Oh, I guess that too.

I'd love to have a private tagging system for my vocabulary (words, not lists). Nearly all of my words have been added through the queue or the HSK lists, so they're like in the 大海, logical groupings don't exist.

Anyway, I'm eagerly awaiting the overhaul of the vocabulary system, especially the introduction of private notes, annotations and definitions.

Hmm, a tagging system for vocabulary. That's certainly possible, especially when the backend for personal mnemonics and definitions have been added.

However, I'm wondering if the list system covers most of the same functionality? As in you could group these words by putting them in lists, and study them as a group, already. And you can organize them more by section if you want. Granted, you have to add the word from the list in order to 'tag' it, and it's not the most convenient way to tag a word, adding it to a list. But perhaps things could be adjusted to make lists double as tags. Just throwing out ideas.

@scott: Tagging vocab would be awesome. Then people could classify stuff for you. That would also take care of the "aircraft carrier" problem as we could tag it as "potentially offensive" without actually putting the offensive content into the definition.

James