Tagging of People
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Hey,
I often refer to friends and family in my notes and would like to link them and also search for entries where I refer to them.
I imagine that similar to to Tags, maybe distinguished by some icon that it is person. -
Were you thinking that this would be a separate feature from tags? Or more of an enhancement to the existing tags feature where you could designate a tag as a person tag? I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on this!
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Hey @mikerockwell, I would probably see it as a separate feature that behaves a lot like tags. E.g. I would like to reference people in my entries as well as add/see them for each entry, and be able to see all people I ever mentioned and filter entries where a person was mentioned. At the same time, I would like it highlighted differently so it is easily distinguishable from tags.
Current workaround with only tags could be [#p_JohnSmith], but that’s hard to distinguish from all the other tags that are not persons and serve a very different purpose.
Does that make it clearer? How it’s implemented or included in the existing apps/UI is certainly up to you :D
While writing those down, same could also work well for locations, but that is an different topic.
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Thanks for taking the time to share this detailed suggestion. I’ve added your idea to our list of feature requests for the team to review.
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You could do that with tags and have a visual differentiation between person-tags and regular tags. In my favorite to-do app, 2Do, I use emojis in tags to categorize and set certain classes of tags off from others.
For example:
🤠-calamity-jane
🤠-wild-bill-hickock
-curly-joe-clantonAnd even though the emoji is at the start of the tag name, you can still search tags based on text farther into the tag name, like “Hickok”.
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