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Kovah / LinkAce

LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.
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Dynamic Lists #86

Open Kovah opened 4 years ago

Kovah commented 4 years ago

Allow lists to be dynamically generated, e.g. by using tags: the list Static Site Generators may consist of all links with the tag static-site.

chrissawyerfan4 commented 1 year ago

What is the purpose of a list that is populated based on a tag? Is it then not a duplicate of said tag?

I was actually already wondering about the difference, like when to use which. I suppose, intuitively, a list has a fixed order whereas tags don't, but I don't know if that is the intended differentiation or purpose. Besides that, the functionality seems sort of duplicate.

Kovah commented 1 year ago

It's been a long time since I built LinkAce and the thing with lists and tags was a mistake. I use it the way it's kind of intended to be used, but it clearly has little benefit for anyone but introduces a lot of complexity.

chrissawyerfan4 commented 1 year ago

Not sure how to read your comment exactly. I suppose my comment above was also meant to raise the question whether this feature would actually be useful, or if this open ticket could be closed for the sake of keeping track of open tasks effectively

Kovah commented 1 year ago

Well I am torn between keeping it because it would be a great addition to lists, but on the other side I am thinking about ditching lists for something more useful, like folders.

gmorain commented 2 weeks ago

Sorry, this might be a stupid suggestion as I just discovered LinkAce today, but I was actually looking for a "smart list" feature, ie. something like a dynamic search result defined by the account managing the links, but which could be exposed to other users or even publicly. This might be defined as a logical combination of tags (ie "#OnlineGames AND (#Action OR #Strategy)"). If you go the folders route, please consider exposing not only the links in the shared folder, but also (optionally?) links contained in subfolders. Hope this helps justifying why this issue has to be kept open for now!