Is there a hotkey way to add Tags?

[ship69]

Hello

Quick question: Is there a hotkey way to add Tags to a task?
i.e. Is there any way to get to the Tags field without using my mouse?

Thanks

J

[James]

Not yet! But it is on the list to create. Thanks!

[Gnopps]

Is the feature voting active? There hasn’t been any official activity there for six months (it seems).

For example this request is related to this: Allow tagging, etc. in when typing in the New Item box – GTDNext Customer Help Portal

So should new ideas be posted here in the forum or in the feature voting?

[James]

@Gnopps

Is the feature voting active? There hasn’t been any official activity there for six months (it seems).

Yes, we still review that site. Here is a good post I did a while back that explains how I view the voting. (click the right arrow on the side of the quote to go to the entire post)

Show only the relevant tags buttons when a certain area or project branch is selected

Hey @Folke good to hear from you, it's been a while! Thanks for the comments. Below are some responses to your thoughts. I totally agree with that, and as I think I've said elsewhere on the forum, we don't rely on this voting to decide what we are going to do next. For a number of reasons. It is however, one data point in the overall decision process that I do find helpful. I find it helpful in deciding not so much what to do, as when to do it. It's a great call out to clarify to every…

[ship69]

@Gnopps I can imagine that implementing your suggestion would be slightly longer than my suggestion of a swift hotkey into a field(!) but yes, that I would vote for that too - in fact I just have!

Interestingly MLO (where I have been living for many months) has something similar to Gnopps’s suggestion and although it does sound like a fantastic idea, interestingly enough, I don’t tend to use much on MLO. The reason is because MLO will automatically default in any tags that the parent currently has at the time you create any child task, and this saves both time and mental energy.

To be honest, the fact that GTDNext fails to do this as well is potentially quite a serious omission - or it certainly would be if you were trying to use tags for anything beyond real-world Context (as I keep finding myself being forced to in MLO).

Fwiw, I have been living on MLO for over a year and mad as it sounds, right now I am currently living on both MLO and GTDNext.com. MLO is an extremely mature product and although overall the interface seems cluttered & confusing, MLO has a superb extremely slick user interface in other very specific ways. In short, in my humble opinion, GTDNext does have a vast amount to learn to from MLO.

However unfortunately for MLO, unlike GTDNext, MLO has no separate database fields for either ‘Area of Life’ or ‘List’ and as a result after much experimentation, I finally have been forced to use tags to store data for both these fields, which is frankly yes, bonkers. And this is precisely where GTDNext scores… And is precisely why I am here.

[ship69]

@James

Not yet! But it is on the list to create. Thanks!

Did this ever happen?

And if not then please, please, please can we get a hotkey way to give keyboard focus to the Tags field, so as to make entry of Tags easier without using the mouse.