Creating tags

Hi Winnie,

I get the continuous editing experience. Sometimes hitting return moves me to the next field and sometimes it doesn't. In any case, isn't there a better delimiter than a comma? I had been chatting with Ben about workflow, and this is yet another example of extra steps needed to achieve something. The comma isn't even on the same keyboard as the letters of the alphabet, so in order to do what you suggest, you have to tap between keyboards again and again just to get through entering your tags. It is neither efficient, nor intuitive (thus why I was hitting enter in the first place).

Like many areas of this app where workflow is an issue, there has to be a better way.

Hi Brenty,

A few ideas that come to mind are:
1) double tapping the space bar. I know this creates a period, but perhaps there is a way around that?
2) creating a special keyboard that pops up during tag creation. Then you could add whatever buttons you like. A next button, a tag button...
3) this isn't a direct solution, but is related to the topic. Existing tags should pop up as you start to type letters. Therefore, if you've previously created the tags, "finance" and "fun", both should pop up (in tappable outlined bubbles) when you type "f". If you type "fi" finance should remain. If you type "fu" fun should remain. If you type "fa" both should disappear. The advantages to this are pretty self explanatory: 1) you'd save time not having to type the entire tag. Once you see it, just tap the bubble to populate with the desired tag. 2) it would keep you from potentially misspelling the tag, thus the avoidance of creating new and unwanted ones. It's silly to have to type the entire tag every time if it's already been used. 3) tapping the bubble to populate the field could serve as the delimiter itself.

I'd be happy to brainstorm more on this topic. I know there are better ways to do many things in the app from a workflow standpoint than currently exist.

Ben,

I agree. I wouldn't want development efforts going towards something that doesn't come up that much. In that case, I think hitting return is the best solution. I know this is what jumps you to the next field in other instances, but perhaps tags could have a different rule?

I have a question on the way tags sort within an entry. They don't seem to sort alphabetically, nor by the order in which they are entered. Can you clarify the way 1Password sorts these? For example, I have tags "work" and "tech". No matter how I enter them, it sorts work before tech, do there seems to be some other rule at play. I'm trying to figure out what that is.

Thanks.

Thanks Winnie.

I'd love to see tag names editable just like folders are. Therefore, changing the name of the tag, changes it in all related entries. Again, not an emergency, but I do like to change the names at times and find it torturous to have to do this manually entry by entry.

:)