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by mverwijs 3193 days ago
When tagging an item during editing it is unclear how to seperate tags. Semi-colon? Colon? Space?

When you use the wrong seperation an error is shown _after_ you switch focus to the next input field. Worse: the (appearently badly formatted) tags are wiped instead of giving me the option to replace the bad characters it found.

The number of tags allowed is unclear too.

It turns out that tag-field is completely whacked. At a 30(?) characters it assumes you've meant that set of characters as a tag. Unless your previous tag (delimited by an [enter] as it turns out) has a 10 or so characters too. Then it cuts of your next 30 character tag and deletes it.

Feature request: expiration dates on items.

1 comments

Thanks for taking time to try out Shelf! And for providing your feedback as well.

Tags: delimiters are [comma], [enter] and [tab]. 50 tags are the max. 30 characters are the max. We'll see how we can make tagging a better experience. Including suggested tags based on content/previous behavior.

Can you explain what you mean exactly by: expiration on items?

Nothing goes stale faster than documentation. What I'd like to see is that when someone adds documentation he/she also adds an 'use before' or 'expires on' date.

So that folks coming after them know that the docs are probably no longer valid.

Got it. I first thought you wanted that content to disappear altogether. Thanks for clarifying.