Category Editor (Tags) - Manage Tags

[Pachuqismo]

The latest version 3.21's Category Editor (Tags) (why not simply call it Tag Manager) will show all matching tags when searching, which I find a significant improvement.

I have presently 2,517 tags for nearly 4,000 books and I constantly have to streamline / weed out in my tags, which now is significantly easier

However, it would be great if the "Tag Manager" (...):

• Had a keyboard shortcut and could be added to toolbars/menus
• And most importantly, could remain open while otherwise working with Calibre

My apologies if such a shortcut exists (I searched for it in vain).

The last suggestion would significantly ease the work of optimizing larger libraries.

Cheers!

[kovidgoyal]

The preferred method for maintaining tags in calibre is to use the tag mapper. Once you setup the rules for it, they will be applied automatically when adding new books/downloading metadata etc. this works much better in the long term than manually fixing tags, which should be a last resort.

Preferences->adding books->adding actions->rules to filter tags
Preferences->toolbars->Add the Tag mapper tool to one of your toolbars.
Preferences->Metadata download->Create rules to filter/transform tags

[Pachuqismo]

@kovidgoyal

Thanks for your response.

Indeed, I am using rules to weed out some of the most commonly occurring events and I do have the Tag Mapper in my Toolbar.

However, as a singular approach for a large library, I find it would require way too many rules, since imported tags represent an almost endless variation (e.g. capital vs lower case, singular vs plural, compounded words/concatenated words, sequence of multiple tags as in 'Seas & Oceans', multiple spellings depending on country as in color and colour, tags separated by '/', and so forth). Moreover, I keep fine tuning my tags to reduce their number.

Consequently, I would rather have a keyboard shortcut to the 'Manage Tags' [called 'Category editor (Tags)' when opened]. Obviously, if I'm the only voice then it won't happen (and I've no clue to program such a thing).

Cheers!

[bonzi]

I would also find this useful for my very untidy libraries. Then, after manually fixing some tags, I could add them to tag mapper for the future. But I have a whole mess now.

Hmmm.... Does tag mapping work when copying books from one library to another one?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Pachuqismo

@kovidgoyal

Thanks for your response.

Indeed, I am using rules to weed out some of the most commonly occurring events and I do have the Tag Mapper in my Toolbar.

However, as a singular approach for a large library, I find it would require way too many rules, since imported tags represent an almost endless variation (e.g. capital vs lower case, singular vs plural, compounded words/concatenated words, sequence of multiple tags as in 'Seas & Oceans', multiple spellings depending on country as in color and colour, tags separated by '/', and so forth). Moreover, I keep fine tuning my tags to reduce their number.

Consequently, I would rather have a keyboard shortcut to the 'Manage Tags' [called 'Category editor (Tags)' when opened]. Obviously, if I'm the only voice then it won't happen (and I've no clue to program such a thing).

Cheers!

You can right-click The tags section in the MDE and change case (affects all in that box.
My personal pref is to Title case all Tags on Import. That narrows things a bit.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Pachuqismo

Consequently, I would rather have a keyboard shortcut to the 'Manage Tags' [called 'Category editor (Tags)' when opened]. Obviously, if I'm the only voice then it won't happen (and I've no clue to program such a thing).

FWIW : If you select a Tags cell in the book list and press Shift+F2 the 'Category editor (Tags)' dialogue will pop.

It may have been added since Apr 2018.

BR