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[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 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.