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tag clouds with plain text files

Hi:
I am trying to organize small text snippets using using tags and tagclouds.
I would like to have a simple system that allows me to use VIM to create and edit them and then have a clickable tag cloud somehow.

blosxomonmy seems quite close to this but I would like to hear of any other solutions/ideas before jumping into this.

thanks in advance.

have a look:
[urlhttp://www.blosxonomy.com/item/risk_free_trial?flav=html[/url]

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It's not "clickable," but see...

It's not "clickable," but see this thread for my system (a little out of date, but I'm too lazy to post my more recent updates).

Abbreviated version: if you use the "tr" command, you can get a list of words in any text file. Add a "uniq -c" pipe and you get a number indicating how often each word appears in the text file. As in:

tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tr -cs a-z '\012' | sort | uniq -c

(I "tag" each line in my big text file by using unusual prefixed (e.g., "kx"). So an entry on "folksonomy" could be tagged "kxfolksonomy." Once you do that, it's pretty easy to change the line above to pull up a list of just the tags.)

Again, it's not "clickable," but once you have the tag list, you can then easily pull up entries connected with any tag by using "grep."

 
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