If I have tagged a whole bunch of events with the same tag, can I later change the name of that tag and have it update in all the events? Or do I have to remove the tags manually from each event and add the new tag name? I haven’t been able to find anything in the help section about this.
Have you tried exporting your events as a CSV file and renaming the tags via Find and Replace with a text editor?
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I don’t think tag names can be changed, so maybe the suggestion by @Peter_T will work. (FYI, he works with version 2 rather than 3, but still, it’s worth a try.)
As a usage practice, I rarely use tags, preferring to create Item Types and populate them with Items. These can be renamed easily via Settings > Item Types:
Frankly, it doesn’t work for me with version 2. However, the csv export/import may have been improved significantly in version 3. With version 2, I would change the tags in the JSON data if necessary.
Tags are a handy tool for quickly creating filter criteria without having to set up the timeline beyond the template. But in the long run, it is definitely worthwhile to define and assign the relevant items for better organization, as suggested by Steve.
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I haven’t tried CSV export, though I do want to explore filtered CSV exporting for AI analysis of my story events (if possible). I’m actually VERY interested in that.
So with your solution, that would require being able to export an entire project to a file, edit it in a text editor, and then re-importing the entire project back into AT3 from the CSV? Is that something the software allows? If so that’s pretty cool.
@Steve,
If you don’t use tags, what do you do when you have a large number of characters that you need to hide from the display so you can see only the aspects of the timeline you want to focus on? I’ve been struggling to find a really good system for doing something like “Show all characters except these types…” AND “only show certain types of events” simultaneously.
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Theoretically, that should be possible. It doesn’t have to be all the data at once. It’s particularly convenient that CSV files can be edited directly with spreadsheet programs such as Excel or LibreOffice Calc.
I’m doing this by grouping events by arcs.
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I suppose it’s a matter of thinking through and creating the Item Types and Items you need relative to what you want to display on the timeline, assigning them to the characters and events, then using the Filter to display exactly what you want.
Sorry to be so vague. Perhaps @AeonRob can dive in to help.