NotePlanNotePlan
Dec 18

Making a distinction between sources of mentions/tags

I have a few @mentions that I use all the time: the names of my team, and a few places (@church, @shops, @town). When I'm trying to type them, NP kindly offers me all the matching @mentions it knows about. Most of them come from other notes or articles which I will never want to write myself. The same goes for #hashtags, though fewer of them have landed up 'polluting' the set I want to use. It feels like I want a way to say "here's the set of @mentions that I want auto-complete help with; please don't offer me any of the others". I asked on Discord, and a few others agreed, so raising it as a feature request. I realise it doesn't seem to be an easy one to solve.
PendingPending
Jul 11, 2023

If the top few items could be replicated at the top of the list, this would be a big help. Also, if deleting a tag didn't actually destroy text in all the notes in which it appeared, that'd be nice too.

Mar 3, 2023

I name my tags in a way that forces autosuggest to be more helpful and organized. The first letter or two. as in: @C/Clientname or @P/Placename

Feb 9, 2023

Slightly at a tangent, but @ Mentions and # Hashtags could be far more useful to be sorted by last use and/or number of occurrences, in both the sidebar and autocomplete. This might be a simple way to at least allay a number of current issues with them. They are unaffected by note sort order, so that may or may not make it easier.

Feb 4, 2022

Something like a black/white list of tags?

Feb 6, 2022

Eduard Metzger: Yes, that would help. I think in the context I've described here, the whitelist would be more effective, as new items from others can appear frequently in new clipped notes. I'd like the option of applying it to the sidebar list as well. There's still always search to find ones not on the whitelist when needed.

Dec 9, 2022

Eduard Metzger: What could be handy for starters is to ignore @ and # in quotes and link titles.

Dec 25, 2022

To show how bad the problem is and how unusable # and @ are for me here are my tags. 99% from various #numbers in link titles of articles i have saved.

Jan 4, 2023

Marcin Ignac: voting up this request to ignore @ and # in quotes and link titles!

Dec 18, 2021

As mentioned on Discord, a short "recent" listing at the top of the autocomplete popup may solve this issue.