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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

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Describe the solution you'd like.

I noticed that passages are displayed as non-translucent if they have one tag, even if they are still empty:

Personally, I think this is a bit visually misleading; I'd prefer it if the passage showed the tag stripe, but was also translucent. That would convey more information.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

I guess you could, maybe, make it slightly less translucent than usual, as an "in-between" of completely empty and in-use.

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Right now, I'm against this personally because the intent of the translucent appearance is "this was automatically created and the user hasn't put any content into it, and thus may be automatically deleted when all links to it are removed." (kind of a mouthful, I realize). Adding a tag feels like an intent.

I think the translucency is a bit more useful than just that one signal - I often have a workflow of creating passages with a given name and tags that relate to its position in the story, and then fill it out later, leaving it as a 'placeholder' so that it contributes some structure to the story map, and its translucency makes its emptiness more conspicuous than just the "Double-click here to..." text does. (I mean, I do typically use TODO tags for my projects, but the translucency provides a little extra information on top of that.)