Tags Are Disappointing and Inflexible for Me
Hello,
the new tags functionality in Version 10 is a disappointment for me. I find no use for it.
What I need is, for the current instance of a task, to be able to assign it to various categories/tags at once.
However, ATracker only makes this possible on a permanent basis: a task must permanently belong to a permanent set of tags (always the same tags).
This is simply not usable for me. For example, the task Emailing today may belong both to Fun and Work, but tomorrow, it may be only Work, or only Fun.
This means we also need to be able to assign tags to individual instances of tasks on an ad hoc basis.
(I don't object to this also being available on a permanent basis as it is now, perhaps other ATracker users may find this useful, but I just find no use for it the way it is now.)
Thank you if you can make this possible in future.
Alex
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Thank you for pointing out to me, Jian, that something that I'm aiming for could be, in a first step, accomplished by using two (or more) Yes/No dropdown tags for every activity.
So that first step works, but then, those tags/categories are not reflected in the categories/tags piechart for the day, so that using the tags is actually meaningless for me.
The desired functionality is, by looking at the categories/tags piechart, to see how much of the day's activities were "Work", "Fun", and combined "Work & Fun". If "Work" is black in the piechart, and "Fun" is green, then those activities which were "Work & Fun" might appear (for example) as a combined black-and-green section (tiny black and green squares?) of the piechart, indicating that this was an activity/these were activities that contained elements of both "Work" and "Fun" on that day.
Thank you if you can make this possible in future.
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Totally agree with Alex. The dropdown feature helps a bit, but then I must edit and add that drop down to EVERY task before actually using the tag on the current instance of a task. You give the example of customer.. but if I have 50 customers I have to scroll thru a long list to select the correct one.
I think adding a text field for tags to every task instance (similar to evernote) would be much more functional. simply typing a tag name would add it to that instance. Existing tags auto populate as the user types and can be attached using tab/enter.
Are there any plans to increase functionality of tags within the next year or two?
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