Additional Quality-of-Life Features for tagging

Hi all,
after playing with the tags of my library for a bit using python, I noticed that most of my tags only have very few or only a single item. As I hope the automatic tag extraction only gets better in future, I was wondering if a checkmark in the tag filter menu would be smart, which will:

**TL,DR: Only show tags which have more than one item.**

Another feature I'd love (I solved this for me with a python script) is to automatically detect similar tags (like "Neural network" and "Neural networks") or casing differences ("robotics" vs. "Robotics") and have the option to change one to the other. Looking for them in the list is tedious.

Being able to automatically set a "style guide" for tags would be amazing, but I can see how this is more of a plugin sort of problem. What I mean by this is for example making a rule that only the first word of a tag can be capitalized, no dashes between words and so on.

Please give me feedback if you think these changes (especially the first one, for a start) would be cool for zotero users and if I should maybe try and implement them myself.
  • Regarding detecting redundant and under-used tags, you can get an alphabetically sorted list of all your tags (along with usage count) relatively easily:
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/97395/is-there-any-way-to-get-a-list-of-current-tags

    Regarding the style guide, you can write your own and save it as a standalone note ... for when you forget how you decided your tags should be applied. ;) I haven't done that for tags but I have done it for collections, as my "rules" for what goes where for some topics are easy to forget.

  • Detecting under-used tags is not a problem, dealing or rather ignoring them is. I have 240 tags with only one entry. I dont want to delete these tags by hand, because it's a recurring problem, I don't want them deleted automatically because who knows if one of these tagged items will get a friend soon. Therefore I suggest a button to filter the list of tags in the left column to only show tags with one or more items.
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