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Originally Posted by DredPirateWombat
I AO3 (archiveofourown.org) allows authors to use "canonical" tags and non-canonical tags ( https://archiveofourown.org/faq/tags...#whatcanonical). It can take a long time for tags to become canonical, so multiple tags might apply to the same idea but aren't linked in the system (Steve is an asshole, asshole-Steve). Additionally, authors like to use non-canonical tags to give extra information, such as using "kinda" as a tag after a canonical relationship tag, wherein "kinda" only makes sense in context with the canonical tag.
I have over 1500 fanfic stories (all that I've read) in my Calibre and 8266 tags. I don't have a problem using user categories, but sifting through all those tags is a nightmare. I tried searching for "Scott" in the tag browser and wasn't even taken to a tag with Scott in it! I don't necessarily want to trim all the extraneous tags out because they can provide nuance to canonical tags. Also, if I did that I would be constantly trimming categories every time I add stories.
Managing this would be a lot easier if I could search the tags for a specific word and get a list of all tags with the word that I could then choose to add to a user category (I can't believe this isn't a function in the manage user category or manage tag options). The only other idea I thought of was to somehow copy the tags into a "note" column to keep the info and then delete all the extraneous tags. Then again, I'd still have to keep trimming tags whenever stories are added (and I'm in the process of adding my unread stories, which may outnumber the read stories).
So, I guess I'm asking if there is a FanFicFare utility for this issue and if not for it to be added to the list when considering updates, as well as asking if anyone has any recommendations for this problem. |
Impractical for FanFicFare to implement.
I keep AO3 tags in a #freeform_tags custom column. I have a LibreOffice spreadsheet where I assign canonical tags to freeform tags and then use Job Spy's Scrub Tags option to convert freeform to canonical so I can keep my main tags column clean.