Better tag organization

[sushimustwrite]

From a Trovebox user: Trovebox needs better tag organization. If you have a lot of tags, then the current tag system gets unwieldy quickly. You can currently search by single tag but not by multiple tags (that I can see), so you can't, say, search for the March AND the 2013 tags.

Some ideas:

• weighted tag cloud option
• show how many photos contain that tag
• filtering options (by date taken, number of photos per tag,...)

At the very least, one should be able to hover over the tag and see how many photos contain that tag. This would also make cleaning out and organizing tags easier.

[CCOSTAN]

Regarding multiple tag search, Would be great for the tag selections to whittle down the available tags as you choose tags.

i.e. choose tag 2013, grey out or hide all remaining tags that don't have any pictures containing 2013 tag.

I love that feature. CARLO.

[jmathai]

You can search by multiple tags. http://current.trovebox.com/photos/tags-Boracay,2010/list

The bigger question is understanding why this seems undoable. A definite UI bug if that's the impression.

@ccostan Smugmug does this (or they did a few years ago). Very handy. Right now the autocomplete happens mostly client side and we don't have the data on the client to be able to do this. Definitely something to keep in mind.

[CCOSTAN]

I'm taking a guess here but I think there could be some confusion on the TAG page. From the search dialog, it is clear to me to search multiple tags. But if a user clicks the TAG page, once they select the first tag (clicking it), they are pushed to the results. Maybe there is a way to allow a shift click type selection on the tag page. Search is great IF you know what tags you have.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccostan/8548659909

[sushimustwrite]

There doesn't appear to be an easy way to search multiple tags in the UI, which would be more useful. I know this method exists but can never remember it when someone asks. And if you have a ton of tags? Fuhgeddaboutit.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Carlo Costanzo notifications@github.comwrote:

I'm taking a guess here but I think there could be some confusion on the TAG page. From the search dialog, it is clear to me to search multiple tags. But if a user clicks the TAG page, once they select the first tag (clicking it), they are pushed to the results. Maybe there is a way to allow a shift click type selection on the tag page. Search is great IF you know what tags you have.

![http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccostan/8548659909]

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[jmathai]

@sushimustwrite The search bar is supposed to solve this. Why isn't it serving that purpose, I wonder.

[CCOSTAN]

@jmathai think about it this way - Go to SOMEONE ELSE'S Trovebox and try using the search bar to search multiple tags. It's not as intuitive when you don't know all the tags. So then you click the TAG page and are bound by one tag (as you click).

Obviously, you could click the tag page first, review the tag list and then hit the search bar but I think if you test the experience on a page where you are not familiar with the tags, you might find some clarity on the issue.

[jmathai]

@CCOSTAN So the smugmug feature was in fact related.

You look at a list of photos and it shows you all the tags in that list. As you drill down, the number of tags displayed is smaller. They did this in a horizontal bar above an album. Something similar would be nice.

But yes, I see your point. If you go to someone else's site are you more likely to search by tag or album though? Not that they're mutually exclusive.

[CCOSTAN]

Me personally, I view and use tags as dynamic Auto-Albums. I treat them almost identically from a viewing/discovery perspective. Albums have more of a permission angle for me.

[jmathai]

I view and use tags as dynamic Auto-Albums.

Once upon a time....I posted this https://github.com/photo/frontend/issues/124#issuecomment-2125279

[pchec]

One other feature you could think about is to add a way to search pictures without specific tags. For example, I have 3 tags: 2012, May, At Home. I would like to search all photos with 2012 AND May AND NOT At Home. Basically, a user-friendly way to have a complete AND, OR, NOT logic in the search would help a lot in situations with thousands of pictures and hundreds of tags.

[jmathai]

@pchec Would definitely be useful. I wonder if prepending a +/- to a tag name (default would be + if omitted) could be a useful interface for it.

[CCOSTAN]

For the geek in most of us, a - would be good. Mimicking the accepted search engine practices would be GREAT! .