Inherit tags in Org mode

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An aspect of tags in org-mode that I had long overlooked is inherited tags. It's a simple idea: when you tag a heading, all it's children (subheadings) will also receive this tag in addition to their own. The is very useful when categorizing certain headings in one file. For example I can task different tasks at work with their general category (meetings for example, or tickets i'm working on) and then tag the specific meeting or task with its own tags, which provide context. They are most useful in the org-agenda view.

How this looks in practice:

* Meetings :meeting:
** Recurring meeting :recurring:
** One off meeting :one-off:
* Tasks :task:
** Frontend task :frontend:
** Backend task :backend:

Recurring meeting :meeting:recurring::
One off meetng :meeting:one-off::
Frontend task :task:frontend::
Backend task :task:frontend::

The flexibility of org-mode to structure data is quite impressive.