tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:/discussions/suggestions/10320-studies-ios-tag-study-sessionThe Mental Faculty: Discussion 2018-10-19T02:24:19Ztag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T06:34:34Z2016-04-20T06:34:34ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>The iOS app doesn't have any way to edit tags, but it should
preserve them, and smart stacks there should work.</p>
<p>What exactly is the problem? Do you mean you search with the
tag, but the notes don't show up in the results on iOS?</p>
<p>When you say 'same archive', do you mean a stack that you synced
over, or is it something you imported? If you imported it, what
format did you use?</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T07:48:47Z2016-04-20T07:48:50ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>The iOS app doesn't have any way to edit tags, but it should
preserve them, and smart stacks there should work.<br>
=> smart stacks are fine. => tags are not imported</p>
<p>What exactly is the problem? Do you mean you search with the
tag, but the notes don't show up in the results on iOS?<br>
=> cf supra</p>
<p>When you say 'same archive', do you mean a stack that you synced
over, or is it something you imported? If you imported it, what
format did you use?<br>
=> imported. I used the "studies archive" format</p></div>Peter Narkistag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T08:03:08Z2016-04-20T08:03:08ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>Ah, yes, that makes sense now. You are right, tags are not
included in an export. That is deliberate, the same way study
history is not included.</p>
<p>When you export, you are usually sharing with others. They want
your content, but not your study history or your way of tagging. At
least that is the way we decided to do it.</p>
<p>If you need to keep the tags, I recommend syncing. That is what
it is designed for. It should preserve all your data, including
personalized data that doesn’t make it into an archive.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T08:18:54Z2016-04-20T08:18:56ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>If you need to keep the tags, I recommend syncing. That is what
it is designed for. It should preserve all your data, including
personalized data that doesn’t make it into an archive.<br>
=> why couldn't this just be an option in the mac version ? I
mean, YOU decided not to include personalized data presuming one's
sharing with others by default, but when this is not the case ?
Just bad luck for me ?</p>
<p>My archives are way too big to sync over the internet. Exporting
is the ONLY viable option for me. I don't see why this use should
be considered as marginal by the developers ...</p>
<p>These preconceived options deciding for us do sometimes beat me
... as they surely do now !!</p></div>Peter Narkistag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T08:33:26Z2016-04-20T08:33:26ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>This is marginal use, I’m afraid. The sharing was added
for just that: “sharing”. You usually don’t need
to export for yourself. That’s why we added sync.</p>
<p>Sync should work fine over the internet, but you might need to
exclude stacks you are not currently working with.</p>
<p>Note also that transferring archives works completely against
the purpose of the app, because it removes all study history and
scheduling.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>These preconceived options deciding for us do sometimes beat me
... as they surely do now !!</p>
<p>I think you are missing the point a bit here. You think we are
deliberately removing things just to be annoying. Quite the
contrary: we develop sharing to be optimal for one use —
sharing with others. If we include things like study history and
tags in there, we undermine that. People either get someone
else’s study history, or they have to go through 10
checkboxes to configure their imports and exports.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Developing software is about making difficult decisions, and
keeping focus. It’s as much about what you leave out as what
you include. Including every possible feature, ala MS Word or
something like that, is considered poor software design. (I would
consider it ‘anti-design’, because design is about
making choices, and MS didn’t make any.)</p>
<p>So we aren’t out to get you or be vindictive. We have made
choices, and you are trying to use the software in a way that it
was not intended in this case.</p>
<p>The sync should work fine for your purposes. I have tested your
library with the iCloud sync, and it worked for me. If there are
problems, better to report those so we can improve the sync than to
use export/import as a substitute for sync. As you have learned, it
is not a very good substitute for that.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T08:42:07Z2016-04-20T08:42:07ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>I will think about tags. We could include those. They are not
exactly content, and not exactly personalized info. So keeping
those may make sense.</p>
<p>Still not deliberately trying to make your life hard. It was
just one of thousands of decisions we make all the time: is a tag
something someone else would want? We decided back then not to
include it. Now we could change our minds.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/396817322016-04-20T09:17:31Z2016-04-20T09:17:35ZStudies iOS TAG study session ?<div><p>They are not exactly content, and not exactly personalized info.
So keeping those may make sense.<br>
=> That makes sense to me. Thanks ! Sorry for being a bit naggy,
but my library is over 6 gigabytes and I simply can't sync it over
the web, even in bits and bites. As I use this app on a daily
basis, export options are important to me (and for my students
too...)</p></div>Peter Narkis