tags custom column and idea for "tag set" custom columns

[david rees]

How is a tags custom column supposed to work? I don't seem to be able to edit it like I can a textfield or Folder custom column.

And while I am asking, I would like to share an idea on how it could work that I would be really useful.

Many workflows actually end up using multiple sets of tags. For example one set for teams, one set for companies, one set for people, etc. For example:
Teams:
TUX
TEng
TMarketing
Companies:
Google
Facebook
Apple
Timeframe:
Week
Month
Year

Often the user wants to quickly choose one tag from each of these sets, but the tags field doesn't know about these sets so its a bit of work to type them all in.

What would be really great if we could create a "tag set" custom columns for each of these set of tags. So in this case I could add three columns - Teams, Companies, and Timeframes. Each one of these fields let me select from one tag from the appropriate set. Selecting a tag for that column adds that tag and removes the others from the set. So its a quick way to choose between the tags in just that set.

My thinking the implementation could just support listing the tags when creating the tag set custom column. Or if you added tag nesting like you have for Folders and Goals the tag set custom column could just pick the parent tag.

And the cool thing is since these custom columns are just "views" on the tags field, the data still happily syncs through with OrganiTask, Toodledo, and all the tools that sync with them.

The same approach could work in OrganiTask also of course.

d

[Benjamin Leclerc]

Hi,

It's mainly a textfield, so you can type for example "TUX, TEng" to set these 2 tags to the task.
Once a tag is at least present in a task, if will be available in the list (the button next to the textfield). So it can be easily reused and selected from any other task.

You can't add a tag, like you would add a folder, you have to enter the tag in a task, then it will be available for the other tasks.