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anoukaimee · 02-09-2022, 06:15 AM

First time poster, long time fan. Your plugin has saved me what I can only imagine would otherwise be countless hours of ADD mania, hyperfocusing to find dupes manually. Thank you!

But one feature that I'm either not finding or does not exist: is there a way to exempt found variants when using the "find metadata variations . . ." tool, in the same way that one can mark duplicates as exempt in future searches? Find I'm often going over the same old Jonathan Smiths and John Smiths, and it'd be nice if there was a way to avoid that. I don't see anything obvious (and I did search in this thread, alas no hits). Am I missing something, is this possible to implement, or have you ruled it out?

Also, as an aside: are you taking recs on possible "similar" names that wouldn't be caught using your algorithms? There's always your Roberts and Bobs, your Katherines and Cathryns, and they don't get caught. I'd be happy to keep a running list as I'm going thru mine [which I do embarassingly often because cleaning data is weirdly soothing lol]; if you'd like the data, let me know where I might send it. Or, if there is an algorithm that I should be using but just don't understand, would love a push in the right direction.

Thanks much for this and your other plugins!

02-09-2022, 06:15 AM	#951
anoukaimee Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: USA Device: Kobo Clara, Pixel 6 (Moon Reader/Calibre Companion), Amazon Fire 10	Is it possible to exempt variants in METADATA for future searches? First time poster, long time fan. Your plugin has saved me what I can only imagine would otherwise be countless hours of ADD mania, hyperfocusing to find dupes manually. Thank you! But one feature that I'm either not finding or does not exist: is there a way to exempt found variants when using the "find metadata variations . . ." tool, in the same way that one can mark duplicates as exempt in future searches? Find I'm often going over the same old Jonathan Smiths and John Smiths, and it'd be nice if there was a way to avoid that. I don't see anything obvious (and I did search in this thread, alas no hits). Am I missing something, is this possible to implement, or have you ruled it out? Also, as an aside: are you taking recs on possible "similar" names that wouldn't be caught using your algorithms? There's always your Roberts and Bobs, your Katherines and Cathryns, and they don't get caught. I'd be happy to keep a running list as I'm going thru mine [which I do embarassingly often because cleaning data is weirdly soothing lol]; if you'd like the data, let me know where I might send it. Or, if there is an algorithm that I should be using but just don't understand, would love a push in the right direction. Thanks much for this and your other plugins!