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Improvements for categories

Open spoorun opened this issue 7 years ago • 15 comments

Nextcloud has a tagging system. 'Categories' are tags, and should sync with that system.

The benefits would be:

  1. Users managing different types of data (such as tasks, contacts, messages, files) would use the same sets of tags (including shared tags) to organise that data,
  2. and in future be able to find that data by global searches.
  3. It would make shared data management more consistent too.
  4. The UI for tags would be consistent across apps (and that could be improved), and it would be more efficient - Users shouldn't need to learn endless different UIs and modes of operation to carry out the same task (using tags) within a single system (Nextcloud).

spoorun avatar Jun 24 '17 08:06 spoorun

I will use this issue to collect all the improvements requested for categories:

  • [ ] Integrate into Nextcloud tagging system
  • [x] Allow adding categories / tags by hashtagging in the title (https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks/issues/42)
  • [x] Integrate into search, clicking a tag should start a search (https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks/issues/47)

raimund-schluessler avatar Jul 22 '17 15:07 raimund-schluessler

@raimund-schluessler any update on this enhancement?

websafe avatar Feb 02 '18 00:02 websafe

Tasks is so good! One question, is there a way to sort by categories? Thanks!

udolee avatar Apr 23 '18 02:04 udolee

Yap, this is very pitty. I miss this feature too.

GambaJo avatar Jan 29 '20 09:01 GambaJo

Tasks is so good! One question, is there a way to sort by categories? Thanks!

Additionally, it would be great to filter by category.

klawdhfzasjhaa avatar Mar 21 '20 16:03 klawdhfzasjhaa

Yeah, i miss also the feature of filtering by category. And the category tags being also links to that filtering.

ghost avatar May 08 '20 17:05 ghost

+1

duesseldorferjung avatar May 25 '20 10:05 duesseldorferjung

Tasks is so good! One question, is there a way to sort by categories? Thanks!

Additionally, it would be great to filter by category.

+1

GambaJo avatar May 25 '20 11:05 GambaJo

Yeah, i miss also the feature of filtering by category. And the category tags being also links to that filtering.

I came to the git repo to see if anyone had requested this feature already. Do you know why it was removed? It'd be great if could view list of categories in left-hand panel, filter by category, and view all tasks tagged with a category. Would replicate the main features from Tasks.org (mobile app I sync tasks with) that are currently missing from Tasks.

abers avatar Aug 15 '20 14:08 abers

Yeah, i miss also the feature of filtering by category. And the category tags being also links to that filtering.

I came to the git repo to see if anyone had requested this feature already. Do you know why it was removed?

It was not removed. It was never available in the first place.

And you can filter by category. Just type the category name in the search box at the top right.

raimund-schluessler avatar Aug 15 '20 14:08 raimund-schluessler

And you can filter by category. Just type the category name in the search box at the top right.

That is not filtering per category, if you search for example with "category" on the search box you will see everything containing "category" on title, description... Not only in the category field.

IMHO a nice improvement would be the possibility to filter with categories (more than one). This is already working with tags in files.

jay3-3 avatar Sep 15 '20 17:09 jay3-3

Perhaps, this helps: https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/pull/375/

klawdhfzasjhaa avatar Dec 10 '20 21:12 klawdhfzasjhaa

Please also have a look at #1453, it's a proper ticket for what @javisomoza asked for

MaggiWuerze avatar Mar 17 '21 10:03 MaggiWuerze

* [ ]  Allow adding categories / tags by hashtagging in the title ([[Feature Request] Hashtag tagging of new entries #42](https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks/issues/42))

Was there any work done into this direction already? And if not is there an easy way to add this and someone could point me into the right direction to start this? If possible I would like to look into an option to set some easy dates at the same time, e.g. today, tomorrow, monday-sunday,... will add the corresponding day as due day

caemor avatar Jul 26 '21 21:07 caemor

New tasks are created here: https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks/blob/4346ae41d63bbcc34b4c0c729dced30fb43363a4/src/store/tasks.js#L708-L783

You can parse the summary and set categories and dates in this function.

raimund-schluessler avatar Jul 27 '21 07:07 raimund-schluessler

Yeah, i miss also the feature of filtering by category. And the category tags being also links to that filtering.

I came to the git repo to see if anyone had requested this feature already. Do you know why it was removed?

It was not removed. It was never available in the first place.

And you can filter by category. Just type the category name in the search box at the top right.

that requires you to know / remember what tags you have made. It is especially tricky if you use emoji for your tags. Best practice UX is to provide a list of tags somewhere (as every other GTD / TASK app does by default) .

Basic operation is the ability to filter by clicking on tags and even multiple tags. These are common fundamentals.

hoshi411 avatar Sep 11 '23 02:09 hoshi411

And you can filter by category. Just type the category name in the search box at the top right.

That is not filtering per category, if you search for example with "category" on the search box you will see everything containing "category" on title, description... Not only in the category field.

IMHO a nice improvement would be the possibility to filter with categories (more than one). This is already working with tags in files.

This comment needs to be bumped up to the top priority.

hoshi411 avatar Sep 11 '23 02:09 hoshi411

Extracting tags from the summary was just added in #2425.

raimund-schluessler avatar Dec 30 '23 22:12 raimund-schluessler

Filtering by tags was implemented in #2427 and will be released with v0.16.0.

I will close this issue, since the main features discussed here were implemented and the remaining requests have their own tickets. Please speak up or open a new issue if you think that a feature request got lost.

raimund-schluessler avatar Jan 01 '24 22:01 raimund-schluessler