New Feature: Tag Management

It’s common that when you’ve been using a personal productivity app for a long time that allows you to use tags to provide context to your tasks and classify all kinds of content, there comes a time when the number of tags you’ve generated becomes quite large.

In the twelve years I’ve been using FacileThings, I’ve created and deleted many tags, and yet I still have a list of 174 tags in my system right now. To give you an idea, users who have been using the app for more than two years have an average of 120 tags.

Some of these tags may have lost their meaning over time, and some may have been created incorrectly (a plural tag when a singular tag already exists, different tags with the same meaning, etc.).

For these reasons, and because sometimes using a tag is more than enough to keep track of certain tasks (it’s not always necessary to create a project), we’ve released a new feature to help you manage your tags and their associated actions.

The Tags option is located in the Organize menu and allows you to view your list of tags, sorted alphabetically, and view and edit all the items associated with each tag in each of the lists:

The “edit” option (1) allows you to access the tag editor where you can rename the tag you are editing (1) or delete it (2):

If you rename a tag with the name of another tag that already exists, both tags will be merged into one.

Deleting a tag does not remove the entire word from the items that contain it, but only the # symbol. This is done to preserve the meaning of texts where the tag is part of the phrase (such as “#call Mike”).

NOTE: The options to rename and delete tags were previously located in the Account option, Utilities section. They have been removed from there.

Originally published at https://facilethings.com on August 6, 2024.