Yeah, I can see that point of view, but personally I wouldn't mind nested tags.
One of the tags I always use is the year. Right now I've got years 2013-2018 as tags (but only show 2018 in the Finder sidebar). When you view all tags it's more complicated than it needs to be. If I could have a master tag called Year that I can hide all my years tags under, that'd make it neater for navigating. I'd never actually tag anything with that master "Year" tag.
Ah, yes. My concern is twofold: one, it already seems too complicated for people to actually use (people in this thread seem to clamor for a return to the previous simpler labels, and I find myself also not using this in practice), and two, the definition seems ambiguous.
In your case, it seems to be merely about making groups of tags?
But the meaning could also be: if a subtag is checked, the parent tag is also checked. But if so, does it get checked explicitly or implicitly? Or does checking the parent tag first check all child tags, and then you can selectively uncheck? Does it AND-combine or OR-combine?
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Thank you for those answers and visuals. Very appreciated and good to know.
I do like using nested tags in both evernote and Gmail. It helps me keeps my tags organized, and saves a little effort because when I apply a nested tag it automatically applies its parent tags.
Interesting. Yeah, maybe Apple could take another stab at this.