Make tag panel optional

Bug #1418259 reported by Jendrik Seipp
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Bug Description

Original description:

Remove the tag panel in favor of the inline hashtags. The reason is that for many users the additional panel just adds confusion and little benefit. Before the panel is removed, we need to make sure to cover all use cases with the hashtags (see e.g. https://answers.launchpad.net/rednotebook/+question/257293).

New plan:

Make tag panel optional.

Changed in rednotebook:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Jack Myers (jmyers) wrote :

Here's one of my uses for the TAG PANE. I'm a semi-retired guy, now an engineering consultant, and I track my billable project hours and expenses using the following tags.
     Hours %Project,Hours,[function]
     Expenses %Proj,Item,Amount
     Mileage %Project,Destination,Miles
     ToDo
     Done

Each calendar day might have between zero to ten of these tags. I keep a running project activity log on the calendar pages. It's easy to generate progress reports and invoices from these notes. I recognize that this is a pedestrian approach to things but it's simple and good enough for my purposes.

The new hashtags do not support this use case insofar as I can tell. I have used this tracking method since the days of paper DayTimers, so you might consider this use to be a regression; not the way you want RedNotebook to evolve.

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) wrote : Re: [Bug 1418259] Re: Remove tag panel

Thanks for the comment. I'll keep it in mind.

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) wrote : Re: Remove tag panel

Instead of removing the tag pane, we decided to make it optional: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/rednotebook/pull/9

We might still want to remove the tag panel in the future, but for now this issue can be closed.

Changed in rednotebook:
status: Triaged → In Progress
summary: - Remove tag panel
+ Make tag panel optional
description: updated
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