Fanfiction Downloader and freeform tags.

[sketchme]

Does anyone here use the FFDL plugin for Calibre?

If so, how do you manage the Freeform tags? Any tips/advice?

I've been using FFDL for some weeks now, and I've accumulated about 200 AO3 fics. I've left the freeform tags alone but I now have over 500 tags, and that could keep on increasing. So I'm thinking I should try to manage them a bit. But how?

It's not as simple as Fandom tags. Where you can tidy things up with replace_metadata. The freeform tags are huge, you'd be doing the job of the wranglers.

I wish FFDL could get hold of the canonical tags for a fic. It would make things more workable. Does anyone know if AO3 attaches those tags to a story?

Comments

[sally_maria]

I'm not a heavy duty tagger, I pretty much just want the fandom attached to stories I keep, so I use FFDL to replace all of the free-form tags with "New" and then tag the fandoms on the stories I decide to keep once I've read them.

The bulk metadata editing tool is pretty useful for tidying things up semi-manually, but I'm not sure how automated you can make it.

[sketchme]

This is a timely comment for me to read. I started off wanting to get rid of all the tags. Decided to mess around with the include/exclude rules - only to keep a few useful canonical tags. But now I keep discovering and adding new ones to my whitelist, just in case. :\

[amalthia]

I haven't looked a the include/exclude rules it sounds like a handy feature.

[sketchme]

Yeah. Here's the documentation.

https://code.google.com/p/fanficdownloader/wiki/InExcludeMetadataFeature

It's handy. I'm going to limit my tags to 20.

[amalthia]

Thanks for sharing this link! I didn't realize I could make these changes in the personal.ini file. :)