Favorite TAGs: how to create a list?

[nikoski]

I use the software "Adobe Lightroom" for managing pics, you can add hierarchical keywords to them. In its panel "keywording" there is a self-creating separate list called "keyword suggestions" with the most/last used keywords jumping to the top.

When using hierarchies to tag items a last/most used list like that makes it a lot easier to tag them.

I ask myself if a thing like that would in some way be possible to achieve in calibre, a self-refreshing list of last/most used tags making assigning them much faster, without having to muddle through a large/deep hierarchical list each time?

[kovidgoyal]

Simply change the completion mode tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to 'contains'

then typing a few consecutive letters from anywhere in the tag will show you the matching tag. For example if you have the tag: Fiction.Military.WW2 to get it in the completion list you just type ww2.

[nikoski]

Thanks a lot!
Yes, completion = "contains" is a quite good work-around for tagging items one-by-one.

But what about if several groups of items like newspapers/periodicals need to be tagged each day by different hierarchical tags?

[kovidgoyal]

I'm not sure what you are asking. If you want to tag several items with one tag, use the bulk metadata edit. If you want to tag each item with a different tag, then use the completion trick I described for each tag.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by nikoski

But what about if several groups of items like newspapers/periodicals need to be tagged each day by different hierarchical tags?

I use the recently introduced feature to Copy and Paste metadata from one book to one or more other books- e.g. copy metadata from last weeks Woman's Weekly with Ctrl+C, and paste to this weeks Woman's Weekly with Ctrl+V. There's a Tweak that allows you to control which columns get copied.

BR