Essences & Trees

We use tags in 2 configurations, Essences and Trees.

Essences are similar to breadcrumbs, but not required to be hierarchical. We use Essences as a form of Table of Content, or TOC, since they tend to show different narratives. Essence can be applied to many things: a tree, branch, link, content type and images. Essences also link things sharing the same set of tags.

Trees are composed of branches with a hierarchical set of tags. In a Data context, they’re called Nodes, in rendered form, they are called Links if clickable, and Memes when it is content. Each link can appear in multiple branches, but in different spots within a branch. This can happen in conventional trees too, but in Simili, each link has a unique context both as part of a branch & its collection of posts.

If an Essence is an index, a Tree is a quantity of knowledge, what we call a Lexus. The posts are connected to the tree and all the links are pathway