[unboggling]

Sigh. My beloved tag scheme, abbreviations and all, is trash as soon as I figure out what to replace it with. (takes long breath, with a hitch in it…)

Why? Because I played around with a lot of different kinds of searches today, and some of the symbols I was using as tag prefixes to distinguish and sort kinds of tags didn't work in informal searches, and some of my abbreviations without those prefixes weren't unique enough for easy searching.

So, my two most used and necessary kinds of tags are Format Quality Rating and Primary Genre. I can leave those two in Tags and use a better prefix on the genre tag, so it's easy to get them to be useful in Catalog and Content Server. Everything else can go into [sigh again] custom columns, such as book type (anthology, omnibus, etc), awards, format problems…. Those new columns will make searching more precise anyway. [sigh…]

So, if anyone was thinking of switching to a tag scheme like mine as previously posted, I'd recommend doing something else that works better with the search box. My scheme worked when I used the tag browser and only formal searches from the binoculars search dialog, but now I want to rely on the search entry area next to the binoculars on the fly, much more than I did before.