What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet? - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    You’re right, it’s almost trivial.

    But as someone who designs software I don’t immediately see any additional functionality. I’d like to understand the benefit to see if I want to incorporate the feature sometime

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      11 months ago

      Alright I’ll provide a use case scenario. I wanted to this functionality when I was in uni where a lot of my contacts had more than one role to play and I had trouble remembering all the roles my contact would have. Let’s say one of my contact was my coursemate but also worked in organizing committee of an event. I knew other members of the organizing comittee as well. So in the event that I needed to share an information with the entire organizing committee, I needed to remember committee list members instead of software helping me. And what about another contact who also part of the event but was on a different team like Public Relations. You could say just another tag would suffice no need for nested ones. But this kind of events happens multiple times and I would have to create multiple tags for multiple events (instead of nesting) and it becomes cumbersome managing the list.

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        11 months ago

        That’s awesome. I’d like to investigate it more…

        You have the following contacts:

        • coursemate
        • commiteemember1
        • commiteemember2
        • commiteemember3
        • prguy

        How would you like to tag them?

        • prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          Let’s say I have 4 contacts A,B,C&D

          A is both a course x mate and committee member for event 1 So tags for A are /batch20xx/course_x/ /event1/OC/

          B is senior of course x and also a committee member so tags for B are /batch20xy/course_x/ /event1/OC/

          C is a batch mate but on a different course y and also part of committee member and tags are /batch20xx/course_y/ /event1/OC/

          D is also a batch mate and course mate but is in PR So their tags are /batch20xx/course_x/ /event1/PR/

          I hope this helps.