About TagsCloud

TagsCloud is an interactive visualisation inspired from del.icio.us own tags cloud. It will enable you to have an overview of all your tags, and interactively determine the relations between them. What is special is that you can filter and re-arrange tags according to the number of posts that were tagged, and according to their connexion to the selected tags.

TagsCloud is intended to be a tool for precisely selecting certain tags depending on your search criteria. By using filters, you will be able to get very quickly to the tags you need.

Using TagsCloud

TagsCloud represents all your tags at once, sorted by alphabetical order. If you look closer, you will find that some tags are lighter than others: the dark ones on a white background are those you used a lot, the dark ones without white background are commonly used, and the lighter ones are the less used ones.

By moving the cursor on the tag cloud, you will see the tag under your cursor as focused (represented in green), and related tags will turn blue and appear bigger. The bigger the related tag is, the closer it is to the tag under your cursor.

You can select tags by clicking on them, and as with SpaceNav, a red label will appear in the status bar (at the bottom of the screen). You can drag it out, or click on the again to deselect it. Clicking on the "SEARCH" button will display the posts which were tagged by with all selected tags.

When one or more tags are selected you can hide non-related tags by clicking on the "HIDE RELATED" button in the status ba. You can go back by clicking on the "SHOW ALL" button.

You can also filter the tags by the number of posts that were tagged with them, by clicking on the "BY POSTS" button. An interactive graphic representation will show you the number of times a tagged was used to tag a posts (X) and the corresponding number of tags (Y).

When you get used to TagsCloud, you will want to move tags to create some "groups of interest". You can do this by simply dragging the dags on the background.

You can zoom and pan the visualisation using the mouse (click and drag on the background) or using the keyboard. Panning is done with the arrow keys, zooming s done by using SHIFT and the UP and DOWN keys.