What do you use User Categories for?

ownedbycats · 12-29-2020, 03:24 PM

User Categories look very useful, but I'm not exactly sure what to use them for.

What do people on MobileRead do with them?

capink · 12-29-2020, 03:35 PM

I use them (together with a user-defined template and a custom column) to setup aliases. You can see example on aliases in this post (also see the attached screenshot)

Edit: Using the same technique you can tag series, and other objects (group them like BR pointed in the post below). e.g. nobel winners, fantasy series ... etc.

BetterRed · 12-29-2020, 03:43 PM

Ad-hoc grouping of books, via the User Category optional plug-in.

Caveat the User Category definition tool was enhanced to allow custom columns to be specified, but the plugin only supports standard columns - Author, Series, Tags etc.

BR

Terisa de morgan · 12-29-2020, 03:52 PM

I use them for grouping the different alias of an author, too.

chaley · 12-29-2020, 04:11 PM

Favorite authors, series, or what-have-you.

Favorite books, but you must have a column with the book ID to add to the category. Yes, reading list can do this but with less search flexibility.

Books needing some processing. Same comment as above.

Katja_hbg · 12-30-2020, 02:12 AM

I use it to find all books of any autor who ever got 5 stars from me.
First time giving 5 stars, I add the autor to the user category named «5*».
After that automatically all books from all 5*-autor are marked blue and the related value is set in a colum.

I like it.

12-29-2020, 03:24 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 8,772 Karma: 62032371 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	What do you use User Categories for? User Categories look very useful, but I'm not exactly sure what to use them for. What do people on MobileRead do with them?

12-29-2020, 03:35 PM	#2
capink Wizard Posts: 1,109 Karma: 1954138 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kindle	I use them (together with a user-defined template and a custom column) to setup aliases. You can see example on aliases in this post (also see the attached screenshot) Edit: Using the same technique you can tag series, and other objects (group them like BR pointed in the post below). e.g. nobel winners, fantasy series ... etc. Last edited by capink; 12-29-2020 at 03:54 PM.

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12-29-2020, 03:43 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,651 Karma: 26966376 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Ad-hoc grouping of books, via the User Category optional plug-in. Caveat the User Category definition tool was enhanced to allow custom columns to be specified, but the plugin only supports standard columns - Author, Series, Tags etc. BR

12-29-2020, 03:52 PM	#4
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,264 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	I use them for grouping the different alias of an author, too.

12-29-2020, 04:11 PM	#5
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,770 Karma: 7029857 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Favorite authors, series, or what-have-you. Favorite books, but you must have a column with the book ID to add to the category. Yes, reading list can do this but with less search flexibility. Books needing some processing. Same comment as above.

12-30-2020, 02:12 AM	#6
Katja_hbg Groupie Posts: 169 Karma: 158116 Join Date: Oct 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD (landscape), Kobo Aura One	I use it to find all books of any autor who ever got 5 stars from me. First time giving 5 stars, I add the autor to the user category named «5». After that automatically all books from all 5-autor are marked blue and the related value is set in a colum. I like it.

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