Feature request: Simple Tag Hotkey

[YourFriendlyNeighborhoodMONKE]

I would love to have just a simple one hotkey for a quick selection tag
The tag could be fixed "quick tag" with no initial need for user customization

This idea comes from Lightroom, where you can press P to input "Pick" label

It really helps with large image batches to quickly preselect good images and then further sort from there

I know currently dragging a tag is relatively quick and easy way,
But it still requires some "hunting" to be performed by the user and takes more time than just navigating through images with arrow keys and pressing a hotkey where the focus of the user can be purely on the images instead of turning your eyes to the tag sidebar and require accuracy for selecting the tag, especially if the GUI is scaled smaller

The speed difference between these methods would accumulate into a lot of user time and nerves saved on large projects

Also, if there are new images flowing into the location, dragging the tag doesn't always "stick" to the image

[RvanderLaan]

Sounds interesting! Could you maybe make a short screen recording of how that works, or some screenshots? I'm not familiar with it

What I usually do when I need to tag many images in Allusion, I first narrow down the images shown in the gallery with the advanced search, then I make a selection of the images in the gallery, and tag all of them at once with the tag-editor (T). Dragging a tag from the sidebar will also apply it to the entire selection if that's what you prefer

[YourFriendlyNeighborhoodMONKE]

I'm aware of all the different options for tagging and I'm specifically talking about applying a tag with a hotkey for quickest possible tagging on individual image basis... Of course it could also be used when selecting multiple images

There would be no need to open tag editor, nor dragging a tag from side bar
When you are working with thousands of images, these kinds of small UX improvements are a really big deal

It would be amazing to have just a simple one hotkey for a quick tagging so you could navigate the gallery view with arrow keys and just click one button to select for later organization

In Lightroom you browse through imported images with sideways arrow keys (I prefer Allusion gallery view!) to quickly go through your new batch of images - You can apply different kinds of filters, but the P key is very quick tag to select good images

Photographers tend to use a very small subset of their images and this kind of one by one browsing makes going through hundreds or thousands of images a breeze without any kind of extra hassle in-between

Here's an area screenshot of Lightroom:

After pressing P key (see below), you input the white flag i.e. Pick tag on images

... As you can see, the little white flag symbol appears now on the corner of the image, just like a tag, and later you can filter by it to only display the images you picked and proceed on editing or narrowing down your selection further

Very simple, very fast!

[Legendsmith]

I agree. Another useful concept is the "tag brush". Also using a Tag Selector Sidebar: Allow tags to be selected without any image being selected, then with a hotkey or button, activate "brush" mode. In this mode, any image I click on, will have all those tags applied. This allows for extremely rapid mass tagging.

[Antoine-lb]

we made a fork of it: https://github.com/OneFolderApp/OneFolder
contributions are more than welcome, we are starting to understand the code pretty well by now so I can even show you around on a video call

[rafstahelin]

Yea I'd love that. This is such a huge tool for me. I wish we could get it to me where it could be
How do I get on a call with you?

[Antoine-lb]

antoine [ at ] lebaux.co

[Legendsmith]

Can this load an existing allusion database/library?

[Antoine-lb]

Can this load an existing allusion database/library?

yes, you can import and export the tags but also load a db

[schroef]

This user to have [t] for quick tagging, doesn't that work anymore?

[Antoine-lb]

What they are asking for is a little more advanced. You select a specific tag, and then you just need to click to asigne it. The goal is to move faster. Is more like a power tool

[schroef]

Ah I see, it's basically turned around workflow.

Feels slower I about, because you need to select them. Not sure how this selections is done though.

Current implementation is fast. Hit t, type your tags and hit enter

[Antoine-lb]

I thought the same thing, but after a call with @rafstahelin it made sense.

Let's say you have to gather all assets you may need for a new clientX. You create the tag and then browse your entire library just clicking around assigning clientX.

The two alternatives today is:

1. Click on thumbnail, press t, type clientX and hit enter. Repeat every time you find an image
2. Click while pressing shift to do a multi select and then assign. But you risk loosing the selection and can't move around while something is selected.

But yes, is not a required feature, it can be done without it, is a power feature. But it is indeed a nice to have