diff --git a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/docs.tid b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/docs.tid
index a31210602..91f205754 100644
--- a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/docs.tid
+++ b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/docs.tid
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/docs
 
 ! Introduction
 
-This plugin contains tools to help work with documents that are structured as a hierarchical outline of tiddlers.  The structural relationships within the document are expressed as tags that weave the individual tiddlers together.
+This plugin contains tools to help work with documents that are structured as a hierarchical outline of tiddlers.  The structural relationships within the document are expressed as lists: for example, headings have a list specifying the content to be shown under the heading.
 
 TiddlyWiki is built on the philosophy that text is easier to re-use and work with if it is sliced up into separate chunks that can be independently manipulated, and then woven back together to make up stories and narratives for publication.
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ To preview a document, locate it in the preview column and click the button labe
 
 !! Introduction
 
-Individual tiddlers are created for each heading, paragraph and list item. They are linked together into a hierarchical outline using TiddlyWiki's tagging mechanism.
+Individual tiddlers are created for each heading, paragraph and list item. They are linked together into a hierarchical outline using lists.
 
 For example, consider a tiddler titled ''Example'' containing this simple text:
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ It will be sliced up into:
 *** a tiddler for the list
 **** and a tiddler for each list item
 
-These tiddlers are bound together using tagging: child tiddlers are tagged with the title of their parent, and the parent tiddler has a ''list'' field that lists each child in the correct order.
+These tiddlers are bound together using lists: the parent tiddler has a ''list'' field that lists each child in the correct order.
 
 !! Slicing Process
 
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ The document itself is represented by a tiddler with the following fields:
 * ''text'': Available for comments about the document
 * ''list'': ordered list of tiddlers making up the root level of this document
 
-Note that the relationship between the document and component tiddlers is that the components are listed in the ''list'' field. This differs from the relationship between headings and their components, which use the ''tags'' field of the components to tie them to the heading. The purpose of this difference is to make it possible to clone doument tiddlers without losing the connection to the constituent parts.
 
 !!! Headings
 
@@ -111,7 +110,6 @@ Tiddlers representing headings have the following fields:
 * ''title'': an automatically generated unique title
 * ''text'': the text of the heading
 * ''list'': ordered list of tiddlers tagged with this heading (i.e. the child headings, paragraphs and lists displayed under this heading)
-* ''tags'': tagged with the title of the parent heading
 ** In addition, any CSS classes found in the HTML are converted into tags
 
 !!! Paragraphs
@@ -121,8 +119,7 @@ Tiddlers representing paragraphs have the following fields:
 * ''toc-type'': the text "paragraph"
 * ''title'': an automatically generated unique title
 * ''text'': the text of the paragraph
-* ''tags'': tagged with the title of the parent heading
-** In addition, any CSS classes found in the HTML are converted into tags
+* ''tags'': any CSS classes found in the HTML are converted into tags
 
 !!! Lists
 
@@ -135,12 +132,11 @@ The tiddler representing the list itself has the following fields:
 * ''toc-list-filter'': the default filter used to generate the titles of the list items
 * ''title'': an automatically generated unique title
 * ''list'': ordered list of titles of tiddlers representing the items in this list
-* ''tags'': tagged with the title of the parent heading
-** In addition, any CSS classes found in the HTML are converted into tags
+* ''tags'': any CSS classes found in the HTML are converted into tags
 
 The tiddlers representing items within the list have the following fields:
 
 * ''toc-type'': the text "item"
 * ''title'': an automatically generated unique title
 * ''text'': the text of the list item
-* ''tags'': tagged with the title of the tiddler representing the list itself
+* ''tags'': any CSS classes found in the HTML are converted into tags
diff --git a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/modules/slicer.js b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/modules/slicer.js
index 3a41159e6..6987e3d03 100644
--- a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/modules/slicer.js
+++ b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/modules/slicer.js
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Slicer.prototype.processNode = function(domNode) {
 			if(!this.isBlank(text)) {
 				title = this.makeUniqueTitle("heading",text);
 				parentTitle = this.popParentStackUntil(tagName);
-				tags = [parentTitle];
+				tags = [];
 				if(domNode.className.trim() !== "") {
 					tags = tags.concat(domNode.className.split(" "));
 				}
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Slicer.prototype.processNode = function(domNode) {
 		} else if(tagName === "ul" || tagName === "ol") {
 			title = this.makeUniqueTitle("list-" + tagName);
 			parentTitle = this.parentStack[this.parentStack.length - 1].title;
-			tags = [parentTitle];
+			tags = [];
 			if(domNode.className.trim() !== "") {
 				tags = tags.concat(domNode.className.split(" "));
 			}
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Slicer.prototype.processNode = function(domNode) {
 			if(!this.isBlank(text)) {
 				title = this.makeUniqueTitle("list-item",text);
 				parentTitle = this.parentStack[this.parentStack.length - 1].title;
-				tags = [parentTitle];
+				tags = [];
 				if(domNode.className.trim() !== "") {
 					tags = tags.concat(domNode.className.split(" "));
 				}
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Slicer.prototype.processNode = function(domNode) {
 		} else if(tagName === "p") {
 			if(!this.isBlank(text)) {
 				parentTitle = this.parentStack[this.parentStack.length - 1].title;
-				tags = [parentTitle];
+				tags = [];
 				if(domNode.className.trim() !== "") {
 					tags = tags.concat(domNode.className.split(" "));
 				}
diff --git a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/interactive/heading.tid b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/interactive/heading.tid
index 5dc681314..4d1a25419 100644
--- a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/interactive/heading.tid
+++ b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/interactive/heading.tid
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ $(tv-heading-status-config-title)$/$(tv-heading-status-config-prefix)$/$(current
 <$view field="text"/>
 </$link>
 <$reveal type="nomatch" state=<<tv-heading-status-config-title>> text="open" default=<<tv-default-heading-state>>>
-<$list filter="[tag<currentTiddler>!has[draft.of]]" template="$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/interactive/tiddler"/>
+<$list filter="[list<currentTiddler>!has[draft.of]]" template="$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/interactive/tiddler"/>
 </$reveal>
 </div>
 </$set>
diff --git a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/heading.tid b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/heading.tid
index 6616b549a..0b7aecf37 100644
--- a/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/heading.tid
+++ b/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/heading.tid
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/heading
 <$level$>
 <$view field="text"/>
 </$level$>
-<$list filter="[tag<currentTiddler>!has[draft.of]]" template="$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/tiddler"/>
+<$list filter="[list<currentTiddler>!has[draft.of]]" template="$:/plugins/tiddlywiki/text-slicer/templates/static/tiddler"/>
 \end
 
 <$macrocall $name="body" level={{!!toc-heading-level}}/>