Tag List behavior UX issue

Hello,

I don’t know if I was the only one with this issue and not even if this is the best place to discuss this (please let me know)…

I loved the tags feature, it makes a lot easier to search for queries, but I only figured out I could select multiple tags (using Shift) when I looked at the code. I’m now trying to think about an improvement that could be made for this, for example:

• Make the selection of multiple tags to be the default behavior;
• Add a note on the page for the key, sth like Hold X to select multiple tags;
• Add Ctrl key as well since it is the default key to select multiple things on Non-Mac computers

Well, what do you think? I can open a PR depending on the conclusions for this…

Illustrative Gif

Thanks! 😁

[gabrieldutra]

I’m almost sure Photoshop does it with Shift (and also some other graphic design softwares). Anyway, I don’t see a problem in having both keys working.

Another suggestion that I was thinking and discussed with an UX dev I know is that maybe the solution for this is to do something similar to e-commerces and use checkboxes.

Another illustrative image - Walmart page

[arikfr]

By the way regarding this: “Add Ctrl key as well since it is the default key to select multiple things on Non-Mac computers”, for Mac users, the go-to key for this would be Cmd, why did we pick Shift? 😃

I think the Shift semantics came from selecting areas in apps like Photoshop, where you hold shift to add to the current selection. But I’m not sure.

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Just saw in Notion a way to show this hint in a subtle way: (sorry for the low quality)

1. When the user interacts with the drag control, nothing shows up.
2. But if you pause for a moment on the drag control, it shows a hint on additional options.