@BetterRed
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What operating system are you using? I use Windows, other OS keyboard behaviour may be different.
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Yes, this may be the reason. I use OSX and the F2 shortcut does not work for me. I checked all plugins.
To edit fields is sometimes a little cumbersome on OSX. The first click is selecting the book, the second one to start editing. But once your were in editing editing mode you must not click on the book again, it immediately opens the field you clicked one. You must hit "Enter"
and Esc to get in the normal selecting mode again. I wonder if I am missing something here. I would appreciate a dedicated shortcut for editing mode but could not find one.
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I create an empty book (Ctrtl+Shift+E) with Author Iron Gloves. All my Virtual libraries have (authors:"=Iron Gloves") or at the start of their search expression. Its main purpose is to retain the VL even though it might otherwise be empty. I also load it with all the Tag values so that the drop down list always has all values - although shift/F2 (a fairly recent enhancement) obviates the need for that.
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I played around a bit with your idea. As I do not have much experiences with VLs, I did not understand immediately why you mentioned VLs. But then I became aware that the tag browser displays only the tags occurrences for those book listed under a certain VL. And looking around for a drop down list I noticed the first time
that there is a menu displaying
all tags you can choose from, independently from the VL and those shown in the tag browser. It is little embarrassing that I didn't know that before
The only disadvantages with this drop down menu is, that after selecting one tag you have to open the menu again and to select the next one etc. Is there a way I have missed to display in the book list the little window ("Tag Editor"), where you can add tags transferring them from the left to the right side and removing them the other way round?
@theducks, @DaltonST
Through this thread I learned that a tag-strategy depends (a) from the amount of books (as DaltonST mentioned this) and (b) from the goal of your organising endeavour as other explained. Therefore some of the more sophisticated tricks are for me not suitable at the moment. On the other hand I understand the reasoning of theducks concerning the redundancy of tags like Fiction and NonFiction but I need an distinction between my "official" books, those I need for my work and I am going to publish via Calibre2Opds and my leisure book, I read "privately".
@To all of you
for sharing your experiences!