Feedback and ideas

[cahdmus]

Hello, I have been logging all my books in librislog these past few days and have been loving it. I've searched for a long time for the best app to suit my needs and I am happy I ended up with your project.

Right now, the app works well, has no speed issues, sometimes the Google search fails but overall the user experience is pretty nice. That being said, I have a few suggestions for things that I think users (but maybe just me) would enjoy:

• Search tags. Display only the books that contain one or multiple specific tags. For exemple right now if I search "science fiction" it will return all the books that have those words in their data, it could be in the name, the description, anywhere. It can be very useful but having a tag specific search would be great for more specific searches. For exemple it could be "tag:comics, tag:star wars" or something of that nature.
• Search specific authors, languages, etc. during the initial log I forgot to fill the language value for one of my books. I could see that in the statistics but not which book it was. The only way I found to fix it was to check all my books one by one, which was a bit of a pain.
• Overall more search functions I guess.
• The tag system does the job for that but being able to add book series to the data and number in the series would be amazing. Being able to see how far you are in a serie somewhere would be the cherry on top
• A simple view of all the books would be appreciated, before the "want to read", "currently reading" etc. Either all existing categories displayed together or a new one with items waiting to be sorted.
• Enter multiple authors, separated by a comma like tags

Thank you for sharing this project and good luck in the future!

[codebude]

Hi @cahdmus ,

at first - thanks for you feedback. I really appreciate it.

Search tags. Display only the books that contain one or multiple specific tags. For exemple right now if I search "science fiction" it will return all the books that have those words in their data, it could be in the name, the description, anywhere. It can be very useful but having a tag specific search would be great for more specific searches. For exemple it could be "tag:comics, tag:star wars" or something of that nature.
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Search specific authors, languages, etc.

That's a great idea. I'll put it on my todo list.

[...] during the initial log I forgot to fill the language value for one of my books. I could see that in the statistics but not which book it was.

For this specific use case there is the "data hygiene" page. This page let's you easy filter your books by missing attributes. You can open it via Profile -> Data hygiene. See documentation: https://docs.librislog.app/guide/using-librislog/data-hygiene.html

The tag system does the job for that but being able to add book series to the data and number in the series would be amazing. Being able to see how far you are in a serie somewhere would be the cherry on top

I get the point. But I have to think about it first. It's a valid requirement, but with each new field/attribute forms become longer and data entering becomes more exhausting. I just fear ending up with a details dialog with 40 attributes which looks that complex that new users won't like to try out LibrisLog.

A simple view of all the books would be appreciated, before the "want to read", "currently reading" etc. Either all existing categories displayed together or a new one with items waiting to be sorted.

You can get this via the main search (on dashboard) via a workaround. Just search for _ (underscore) and press enter. (...or open this link: http:///search?q=_ )
I'll think of a more intuitive solution.

Enter multiple authors, separated by a comma like tags

Added to my todo list.