The 'tags' menu in $:/Manager shows many defunct tags - can I stop this?

[Complex Little Pirate]

Hi. Thanks for this wonderful group where I have searched and found many answers to my newbie questions. I use TW5 to manage my writing project (novel). It was a life-changing discovery for me as a writer; for years I tried to find different tools to support my instinctive process but it was always clunky and distracting, where TW5 is intuitive and unobtrustive. I love it. (I use it in tandem with WriteMonkey where I do the actual writing in a minimal low distraction environment. The day's text then gets dropped into a tiddler from where I can use TW5 to organise and work with it.)

Anyway, my question. My tagging system has changed and refined (as my process for working on the project has settled down and become clear) and I now have fewer and more relevant tags than when I began. I have TW5 set to open the shadow tiddler $:/Manager on start, which gives immediate visibility of a particular set of tagged tiddlers I need to work with (my raw daily notes/writing), and makes it easy to work with them.

As part of my process I go into each of these tiddlers in turn and copy out sections of text into "collection" tiddlers, enabling me to use it meaningfully and connect it into the larger project. Once this is complete for a particular source ("raw") tiddler I change its tag (using the checkbox tag options in the 'Tags' panel on the right hand side) to show that it has been sorted, effectively archiving it. 

However I am finding that the 'Tags' panel in $:/Manager, that is so useful for this process, is clogged up with a long list of every defunct tag that I have ever used the Manager to manipulate. There are actually no longer any tiddlers with these tags (I used the RenameTags search and replace function to change or remove them). Sometimes the list of defunct tags is longer than the depth of the 'Wikified Text' box. It's distracting, and also takes time to scroll down each time and hunt for the few actual current tags in the list.

My question is whether and how I can 'reset' $:/Manager to only offer currently existing tags in its 'Tags' checkbox menu. Thank you.

Les

[PMario]

Hi,

Open this tiddler: https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fconfig%2FManager%2FRecentTags  in your wiki and modify the list field

-m

[Complex Little Pirate]

Thank you very much for your quick reply. 

I looked down the list of shadow tiddlers, but couldn't find /config/Manager/RecentTags. I couldn't find it using  $:/AdvancedSearch, either.

However, it was referenced in $:/Manager/ItemSidebar/Tags, which in edit mode offered me this:

This is a modified shadow tiddler. You can revert to the default version in the plugin $:/core by deleting this tiddler

I went ahead and did that, saved and refreshed. The tags checkbox menu in $:/Manager has now vanished altogether :-D

I guess I need to restore it somehow now!

[Complex Little Pirate]

LOL. I reimported $:/Manager/ItemSidebar/Tags from the mothership at https://tiddlywiki.com/. The tags menu has now reappeared in $:/Manager, complete with all the defunct tags as before.

My mission remains to follow your kind directions and find /config/Manager/RecentTags! 

[Complex Little Pirate]

Found it! Cloned it as a backup, deleted the list that was in it, reloaded and all is now fresh and sweet in the tags menu of Manager.

Thanks very much indeed for your help.

[PMario]

Hi,

Sorry. ... $:/config/Manager/RecentTags is a SystemTiddler in Advanced search.

If it doesn't exist, you need to create a tag in $:/Manager first, so the tiddler is created.

-m

[Complex Little Pirate]

Thanks for that! I did find it using the System pane of Advanced search :-)

I really appreciate your help as I'd never have worked this out for myself. Cheers.