AnkiDroid uses the minus sign to mean “this tag wouldn’t be applied or removed”. However, I think it’s more logical if it meant the tag will be removed.
I’ve struggled understanding this quite a bit, and so think there’s room for improvment here. Thanks for your consideration!
I think your suggestion might make more sense if you attach a screenshot. I’m struggling to figure out which screen you’re talking about and which “cross mark” you mean.
The add/remove tag screen I see uses checkmarks in boxes ☑, and has a plus + for additional tags. If that’s the right screen (and I don’t know that it is), I can’t tell which one you want to change.
Thanks, I was supposed to say one thing and I ended up saying another. It’s the minus sign. You see it in hierarchical tags, or when you edit tags.
If I select three notes with three different tags, minus sign appears on each tag in the edit screen. If I remove that, and OK, the tags are removed. And I’m not sure the current scheme makes a lot of sense. Minus generally means remove and not “don’t do anything”.
My suggestion is making these icons more intuitive and allowing us to cycle through these states (for some reason, I can only cycle through two states).
I’ll attach a SS. I here selected three notes with three different tags.
The minus sign in the checkbox usually means an intermediate state. In your case, this most likely means that all 3 notes do not contain the same tag.
Thanks for letting know. So this is a standard sign?
I will restate the other issue then. If I select these multiple notes, I can keep their differing tags while adding new tags to all of them.
Once I tap the checkboxes for the intermediate state boxes, intentionally or otherwise, I can only:
There seems to be no “don’t do anything” option “after” I have tapped one of those boxes with minus sign.
You selected all of these notes, so whatever action you choose here should apply to all of the notes. Add-to-all and Remove-from-all make sense as the 2 possible exit states.
I think what you’re looking for is “Cancel.”
“Keep existing tags” is what I want because the selected notes have differing tags.
Yeah, I can go back to start.
By the way, devs I still think minus is confusing. Can we change the icon to something else at least?
A lot better than the current one, I’d say.
