Feature request: Better tag management
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Throuout the years, tags have felt like an afterthought in Day One. Please consider:
- allow renaming of tags
- improve performance, when changing tags for many entries
- consider auto-complete suggestions when tagging inline
- consider nested tagging
- consider rethinking the entire tagging UX
- (Bear Notes is a great expample for a wonderful simple yet powerful and performant nested tagging system)
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I can see how each of those points would help make tags more useful and easier to use meaningfully. I’ve let our team know exactly how you see room for us to grow with our tagging feature.
You’re not the only one who sees room for improvement on this, and it’s an ongoing conversation for us. Thanks for contributing!
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“consider rethinking the entire tagging UX”
This is one of my biggest peeves about DayOne (which I love!). I rely on tags for the work I do and it seems as though having to go to a drop down and enter a submenu to find them is terrible design. They should be available in the top line where the date is and editable.Also I’m glad I added IG to my DayOne Journal but would give my eyeteeth to go back in time and have those tags somehow delineated. Thanks
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Android tagging (because of OS) defaults to lower case at start of the word.’
IOS tagging defaults to upper case,. Because of this I have two versions of every tag. E.g. vegetables and Vegetables.
Please enforce tags to be entirely lower case, or at least a way to combine.
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Oh I can see how that would be troublesome! I’ll let the team know how we can improve. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to us.
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I really liked your “nested tags” suggestion. I was wanting something like this for a while a few months ago then I ended up just splitting my one main journal into many others. Treating each journal as kind of a “parent tag” if we are still thinking about nesting and the tags within that journal as the “nested tags”. I hope the way I’ve explained this makes sense. This may not be helpful for your specific use case but I thought it was worth sharing.
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I am not quite seeing how to filter and save tag combinations. I am new to Day One and might just hold off with Apple’s Journal having been announced. Is there a way to filter and see combination of tags on the left. Not seeing how to do this.
Tagging Guide
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@adamwolson We have a robust search feature you can use to filter and see entries that match various tags you can see here: https://dayoneapp.com/guides/tips-and-tutorials/search-in-day-one/ . I hope that helps.
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Okay it looks like the forums are not that active and that there are no moderators here. Another no for Day One for me as a potential user. I’m glad to see at least there is a forum.
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So then if I understand right there is no way to save smart groups with multiple tags. Organization in Day One seems horrible or else it is not intuitive to me at all. I do not see anything in the menus or on the side to create saved groups of tags or even a single tag that I can just single click into for journals that have been tagged with specific things.
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I’d advocate for at least offering the ability to rename tags, as that affects longer-term users with a larger body of content significantly more than it does newer users (who could arguably create a NEW tag with the desired text and untag all posts with the OLD tag text… which clearly runs into scalability issues with greater use). The UX solutions for tag management are largely “out there” in relative abundance, with the two dominant patterns that immediately come to mind being either a tab in the Preferences dialog (as DayOne presently supports renaming notebooks), or a listing of defined tags in the sidebar (see Apple’s Notes and Reminders apps, as well as apps like Evernote).
That said, I can certainly respect the challenges tag renaming might impose upon the “create tags from hashtags” preference setting 😉 though notably Apple Notes handles it (updates the hashtag in text of all notes containing it).
It blew my mind that @moldywaste was struggling with duplicative tags owing to differences in letter casing behaviors between iOS and Android… ignoring the corner case they’d fallen into, now that it’s been unearthed, I think sends a message that the DayOne team likely prefers not to, to the app’s longtime users.
Hope to see tag editing soon, at any rate!
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Thanks for your feedback, @d7fd48mdjt. We will submit your comment to the team for future consideration on tag management!
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I gotta say, I’m starting to look for another app. I subscribed to Day One as it seemed good and has encrypted entries. In the year+ I’ve had Premium access I’ve seen basically no feature enhancements or changes, and most importantly the tag system is still archaic. You can’t search for multiple tags with AND/OR, tag casing is messy (as noted above). It’s a novice implementation and so critical to finding info that I’m sad Day One can’t step up to fix it.
You also can’t store location by name on Android (it only saves address), but can on iOS, which is maddening when looking back and not knowing what 181 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012, United States is…yet if entered on iOS it will say “Carbone”
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+1 for direct renaming & merging tags, nested tags(moments/personal encounters), structured tags(type::moments vs. type::journal)
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@c4527f1806e0951 Thanks for your feedback. I’ll make sure to note them all.
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I’ve just signed up for Day One and would easily rate it as the best journalling app around except for the incredibly archaic tag functionality (‘functionality’ being almost too generous of a word here given the tags aren’t actually functional). Can I please add a vote for nested tags (really not difficult to implement) and tag renaming. Thank you!
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