Does anyone use ad-hoc tags to sort inventory?

[Nika Talaj]

My partner recently bought the CTS wardrobe to help organize an alt's huge inventory of clothes.  As I watch him wrestle with this tool, I find myself wishing that LL would just add tags to avatar inventories, and make inventory search tag-aware.  Sure, it might multiply the storage required - but hey, it's all IN THE CLOUD now!  I think the first time I noticed this being discussed was in 2007.  I guess we can assume it'll never happen, although that was what I thought about that other oft-discussed inventory feature, Links, until LL actually did it!  If anyone knows of an active project to provide tags in inventory, please speak up.

Until that happens, I'm thinking I may create a crude tagging system for my folders, prefacing each "tag" with the character & followed by one or two characters, separated from other text with a space.  So that the folder name for a dress from fictional store *NumNuts that looks like:

"*NumNuts sparkly minidress outfit" . 

Might change as follows using tags:

"*NumNuts sparkly minidress &LS &H &R"  Explanation:

• I remove the word "outfit" from all folders when I unpack them
• &LS - dress works for both Lara & System (or BOM) bodies
• &H - Has a hud to select multiple textures - I wouldn't use this notation for something that just has a Hud for buttons
• &R - Racy, for example has very low decolettage or is just made out of straps

Does anyone do this?  If so, I'd love to know what tags you use.

[Maitimo]

1 hour ago, Nika Talaj said:

• I remove the word "outfit" from all folders when I unpack them
• &LS - dress works for both Lara & System (or BOM) bodies
• &H - Has a hud to select multiple textures - I wouldn't use this notation for something that just has a Hud for buttons
• &R - Racy, for example has very low decolettage or is just made out of straps

Does anyone do this?  If so, I'd love to know what tags you use.

The only one I'm currently using is an asterisk at the beginning of the folder name for items that fit the Petite chest, so they get sorted to the top (I remove all other leading special characters from folder names because I'm picky about them being in proper alphabetical order).

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 hour ago, Nika Talaj said:

My partner recently bought the CTS wardrobe to help organize an alt's huge inventory of clothes.  As I watch him wrestle with this tool, I find myself wishing that LL would just add tags to avatar inventories, and make inventory search tag-aware.  Sure, it might multiply the storage required - but hey, it's all IN THE CLOUD now!  I think the first time I noticed this being discussed was in 2007.  I guess we can assume it'll never happen, although that was what I thought about that other oft-discussed inventory feature, Links, until LL actually did it!  If anyone knows of an active project to provide tags in inventory, please speak up.

Until that happens, I'm thinking I may create a crude tagging system for my folders, prefacing each "tag" with the character & followed by one or two characters, separated from other text with a space.  So that the folder name for a dress from fictional store *NumNuts that looks like:

"*NumNuts sparkly minidress outfit" . 

Might change as follows using tags:

"*NumNuts sparkly minidress &LS &H &R"  Explanation:

• I remove the word "outfit" from all folders when I unpack them
• &LS - dress works for both Lara & System (or BOM) bodies
• &H - Has a hud to select multiple textures - I wouldn't use this notation for something that just has a Hud for buttons
• &R - Racy, for example has very low decolettage or is just made out of straps

Does anyone do this?  If so, I'd love to know what tags you use.

I do something similar to your first tag. I preface outfit names with a code that identifies body, head, skin, and sometimes other stuff. “SRGa” is Slink Redux with Genus head and Anya skin. “CAp” is Maitreya with Genus and Anya skin, and Petite add-on. (Yes, there is an obscure idiosyncratic logic to this last one.)
 

It does make it somewhat easier to find things. I like the idea of more descriptive tags. Like “WWIT” (= “What was I thinking???”)

[LittleMe Jewell]

5 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

I like the idea of more descriptive tags. Like “WWIT” (= “What was I thinking???”)

That would apply to too much of my inventory

[Gabriele Graves]

My inventory is organised hierarchically using a structure that fits the way my brain thinks.  I can almost always go straight to where I expect things to be and find them with less than half a dozen clicks.  I don't rely on search very much as a consequence.  I have just over 60K of items so my inventory isn't as big as some however.  That is by design too.

[Bree Giffen]

I don’t use tags for avatar items because I have one body and one face per avatar. I toss out the rest. I use folders to sort things but I think the only tag used would be the “-evaluate” tag that I use for folders full of demos that haven’t been tried. I have about twenty evaluate tags on folders right now. 

[Wulfie Reanimator]

You can already (kind of) do this. As long as you name your folders a certain way (for example, exactly as described in the OP), even Firestorm lets you search for multiple phrases at once. It even works with spaces.

 

[Scylla Rhiadra]

43 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

You can already (kind of) do this. As long as you name your folders a certain way (for example, exactly as described in the OP), even Firestorm lets you search for multiple phrases at once. It even works with spaces.

 

Whaaaaaat??? You can search for multiple terms in FS??

/me hugs Wulfie

You're a God, Wulfie. And you've changed my life FOREVER.

[Prokofy Neva]

16 hours ago, Nika Talaj said:

My partner recently bought the CTS wardrobe to help organize an alt's huge inventory of clothes.  As I watch him wrestle with this tool, I find myself wishing that LL would just add tags to avatar inventories, and make inventory search tag-aware.  Sure, it might multiply the storage required - but hey, it's all IN THE CLOUD now!  I think the first time I noticed this being discussed was in 2007.  I guess we can assume it'll never happen, although that was what I thought about that other oft-discussed inventory feature, Links, until LL actually did it!  If anyone knows of an active project to provide tags in inventory, please speak up.

Until that happens, I'm thinking I may create a crude tagging system for my folders, prefacing each "tag" with the character & followed by one or two characters, separated from other text with a space.  So that the folder name for a dress from fictional store *NumNuts that looks like:

"*NumNuts sparkly minidress outfit" . 

Might change as follows using tags:

"*NumNuts sparkly minidress &LS &H &R"  Explanation:

• I remove the word "outfit" from all folders when I unpack them
• &LS - dress works for both Lara & System (or BOM) bodies
• &H - Has a hud to select multiple textures - I wouldn't use this notation for something that just has a Hud for buttons
• &R - Racy, for example has very low decolettage or is just made out of straps

Does anyone do this?  If so, I'd love to know what tags you use.

I'm open to consider this and as I said, now that we are magically in the cloud and anything is possible *cough* the Lindens should enable us to put all of our inventory on the web site so that it doesn't lag us as avatars -- which it does, as anyone who is unable to log in often will find.

Of course it's possible because the entire premise of the Marketplace involves inventory online that you upload and then deliver.

The KittyCats can go in something called the Cattery or the Menagerie where you can hold them for awhile if you don't have prims or dispatch them and only retrieve them for a short while before they are gone forever, licking their paws in happiness.

Vendors like Casper track purchases not just on the MP but inworld from a merchant and enable you to re-deliver.

Once it's on the web, it would be easier to sort, search and tag as you indicate.

[Nika Talaj]

9 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:

Once it's on the web, it would be easier to sort, search and tag as you indicate.

Being able to sort inventory on the web is my friggin' DREAM.  I think I even created a Jira for it 10 years ago or so.

Even if LL just did this the simplest way possible - say, no deletions, no folder or other item creation, no picture or other viewing, just being able to drag items and folders between two instances of the inventory on a website OMG so wonderful.

Doing the above AND being able to create & search tags, even if just on the web version, would be like 12 Christmases.

Edited November 20, 2020 by Nika Talaj

[LittleMe Jewell]

Cloud storage is not free and often not even as cheap as hosting it yourself.  It is simply easier to expand and doesn't come with the physical limitations of having your own server / disk farm.

 

While the cloud may help back end processes run faster/smoother/better, it isn't going to change any of the logic of the back end process.  That does still require programming.

 

[Horus Salubrius]

I seem to have a very small inventory compared to most & still it boggles my mind.  Now I spend a little time every time I log in going through it & organising & deleting.  I've done category folders so now I don't have to remember what those shoes are called & search my entire inventory.... I just go to the shoes folder & look there.  Sometimes sub-folder within category folder to fine tune it down further.  The worn listing in inventory looks great now !      Having recently discovered a pile of new clothes that I never even unpacked(!)  I now have a new clothes folder where new purchases are immediately placed and a generic new folder for other purchases.

and yes, I took that from the Linden video

Edited November 20, 2020 by Horus Salubrius