I made a new tag for an item. It appeared in the TAGS folder, in the Groups & Tags pane. I tried applying the tag to another item, by dragging the tag from the G&T pane to the item. Instead of being added to the item, the tag vanished (like dragging something out of the sidebar of the Finder.) I found that it had left the G&T pane but turned into a folder in the Inbox (the area to which I must have dragged it). If a tag is both a “tag” and a “folder” , or is a “folder” that is also known and used as a “tag”, why can’t it be in both places at once?
Although it does not appear any more in the TAGS folder in G&T, the tag does still exist and if I select an item, Show Info, and begin typing the initial letters of it in the TAG box it will appear as one of the choices.
Something about this double-identity of tags and folders just doesn’t seem right to me.
One of the effects that I think is objectively counter-productive is that it means the list for auto-fill or choice, when applying a tag, may be very very long because it includes all the folders as well as the tags. If I have 1 tag that begins with pre-, and 20 folders that begin with those letters, I see 21 choices and have to type farther to activate autofill. Can’t I just see the tags? If I wanted it in a folder, I’d do that differently rather than using the TAGS pane.
I guess it is too late to even propose that DTPro change this double-identity, even if every user agreed with me which I am sure is not the case. But I post this to see if others may find some aspects of the tag/folder arrangement less than ideal, and then in future development perhaps those aspects could be altered a bit.