Creating tags

Creating a new tag is actually the same as creating a new item. Enter a name and a category, and you're done. Some examples what can be mapped with tags:

• Feelings: From love to hate and everything between.
• Moods: From overjoyed to depressed.
• Relationships: Connect character to families, or pairs, or siblings (see below).
• Define locations more precisely (see blow).
• Trace events (see blow).
• Assign the actual weather situation to scenes.
• Trace the level of excitement.
• Much more.

Making tags assignments

Excellently the same as for items.

Why are tags not items, then?

Well, they are (technically). The distinction between items and tags let you keep them separate. The feeling "being in love" is somehow very far away from a "hammer". That's why they are separated.

Using tags to define relationships

Tag can be used to map families and other relations between characters. The demo project uses the characters of the TV cartoon show "The Simpsons". Here how the tag assignments would be for the Simpson family:

And here how that is shown in the Memoria Tool (the tag "The Simpson Family" is the focused object):

And the other way round (Homer is the focused object):

Using tags to define locations more precisely

Tags can also be used to define locations more precisely. For instance: A location may be named "garden", and for most scenes playing in the garden that may be enough information. But some scenes plays in a specific place inside the garden, and you want to trace that.

Add two new tags, "Patio" and "Vegetable Patch", both with the category "Garden". Now assign both tags to the location "Garden". Then assign the affected scenes, too.

• Assign the scene "Marge is sitting in the garden" to the tag "Patio"
• Assign the scene "Marge is working in the garden" to the tag "Vegetable Patch".

Now let's see how that can be traced with the Memoria Tool (the scene "Marge is sitting in the garden" is the focused object):

• The tag "Patio" is directly assigned to the scene "Marge is sitting in the garden" and therefore shown in the section "Tags & Items".
• In contrast, the tag "Vegetable Patch" is assigned to the location "Garden" (and not to the focused scene). Therefore that tag is shown in the section "Involved tags & items".
• The same applies for the tag "The Simpson Family" (not assigned to the focused scene but assigned to the character "Marge").

Using tags to trace events

Assigning events is simple. Let's say in a murder mystery a string of burglaries happens.

1. Create a new tag named "string of burglaries" , category "Event".
2. Assign that tag to each scene that is affected, i.e. also scenes where characters talk about the string of burglaries.
3. Use the Memoria Tool to trace it.