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Old 08-13-2021, 12:19 AM   #1
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Editing Tags

Would love an easier way to edit tags per book. Currently it can only be done by editing the tag stream

eg.
Arson, Mystery Fiction, Women Sleuths, Rich people - Crimes against, San Francisco, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, California, Suspense Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Women detectives - California - San Francisco, Rich people, Women Detectives, Mystery & Detective, American, Suspense, Missing persons - Investigation, Missing Persons, Mystery & Suspense, Espionage

Trying to resolve this in-line is tedious.

Is it possible to provide a tag editor that would display each of these in a column, preferably sorted, and allow changes to that column then insert the column into the tag field with commas between the entries.

So in column form
American
Arson
California
Crime
Espionage
Fiction
Missing Persons
Missing persons - Investigation
Mystery
Mystery & Detective
Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Mystery & Suspense
Mystery Fiction
Rich people
Rich people - Crimes against
San Francisco
Suspense
Suspense Fiction
Thriller
Women Detectives
Women detectives - California - San Francisco
Women Sleuths

Which can then be culled as required to say
American
Arson
California
Crime
Espionage
Fiction
Missing Persons
Mystery
Detective
Women Sleuths
San Francisco
Suspense
Thriller

and then converted to a stream with commas in between

eg
American, Arson, California, Crime, Espionage, Fiction, Missing Persons, Mystery, Detective, Women Sleuths, San Francisco, Suspense, Thriller

which hopefully says it all and makes searching for books by tag much more sensible.
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Old 08-13-2021, 12:36 AM   #2
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Thanks so much. I have spent hours doing it without seeing that button
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Thanks so much. I have spent hours doing it without seeing that button
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Manage Tags is also useful in cleaning up superfluous/erroneous tags, it can be sorted on usage count which helps.

And you can access the Tag Editor from the Book List with Shift/F2 in a Tags cell.

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