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

[amalthia]

I delete everything in the freeform tag field and add my own tags. What I normally do is select multiple stories from the same fandom and use the edit metadata option to remove all tags and add my own at the same time. It works great in bulk.

I use custom columns to collect the rest of the data, such as warnings, relationships, word count, status (complete or in-progress), series, and collection/challenges information.

[sketchme]

This is where I was heading. The freeform tags are so unworkable, I'm going to have to delete them and come up with a tagging system.