I can understand that having ordinary tags with the same name is not recommended, and that the duplication should be solved by creating the tag further up in the hierarchy.
But with group tags, it does not represent redundancy.
Isn’t it a valid usage scenario to have different folders with the same name, and wanting both to be used as group tags?
Even if two groups/folders have the same name, they are unique in that they exist in different directories. Their immediate parent isn’t the same, and so won’t their full path.
Is there something so fundamental to DEVONthink that couldn’t be modified to make it display two distinct group tags that happen to have the same name?
Having to rename folders that exist in different places in a hierarchy to conform to this limitation does not seem right.
Especially when using autocompletion, specifying group tags is a way of specifying in which groups there should be replicants of an item.
But when there are two group tags with the same name and DEVONthink only displays one, the user is clueless as to where the replicant will be saved. It requires going in DEVONthink to find out where it was saved and manually move the replicant to the other group (group tag), if necessary.
This wouldn’t happen if the autocompletion showed both group tags.