How to tag FAST
Ever wanted to increase the speed of your tagging? Tired of the exorbitant amount of time and effort it takes to tag? Well you can speed things up with the following addons:
Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-text-expander
Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com...honjhdlmndigalhandb?hl=en (haven't really used this one extensively so...let me know how it works! But it should be the same thing)
These addons basically use the same principles that actual typing professions (like a medical transcriptionist) use. Instead of typing out every single word you create shortcuts for long words and phrases, saving you time and keystrokes.
So when I run across an image of a solo female model I don't have to type out "1girl female female_only solo", instead I type "1g" (a shortcut I created, short for "1 girl") and then the addon will change that shortcut to "1girl female female_only solo" for me. You can already imagine how this saves a ton of time.
Obviously you want to create shortcuts that aren't going to come up in the course of normal typing, like you don't want to create a shortcut of "ha" for "huge_ass" because if you try to type "happen" or "inhabit" or whatever word which might contain "ha" it's just going to quickly replace the "ha" part with "huge_ass", HOWEVER, I have found a way around this by always creating my shortcuts with a space at the end like so: "ha ". So that you have to press the spacebar to activate the shortcut, so if you type "happy" it wouldn't actually trigger the shortcut. I find this to be a best practice when creating shortcuts, so I suggest you add a space after every shortcut! (However I still wouldn't use "ha" because you might want to type "ha ha" or something...I personally use "hua" to type out "ass huge_ass" for me).
Now I could share my personal list of shortcuts with you but uh, I think that would be too overwhelming because I've literally created hundreds of them. Your eyes would kinda just glaze over looking at such a long-ass list, and so ultimately it wouldn't be very useful to you. I think it's best if you *slowly* create your own shortcuts! I say slowly because you need time to adapt and remember to use the shortcuts you've made, so I'd reccomend only creating a few at a time and focusing on some of your most-used tags, get comfortable using those, then make a few more, get comfortable using those, and so on. If you trying to write out like 100 shortcuts at once you're gunna forget to use half of them and just get lost in the weeds.
Now if you get really into shortcuts like me you'll eventually max out the number of shortcuts you can make. It's honestly really stupid, because how much memory can a fucking text shortcut take up? I tried to ask some coders on Fiverr if they could expand the memory capacity of the addon for me, but they basically told me the code is protected and they can't do it. Go figure. But anyways if you do max out your shortcuts, at least on Firefox, you can download a SECOND text expander addon and keep going! I use this one (I guess it's no longer available from the official source? I did find it again here: gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=2801813) simply called "Text Expander" so I could keep going. If you're uncomfortable running an out-of-date addon there's others on the store too just search "text expander" and you'll see them. Anyways, I run Auto Text Expand AND Text Expander at same time and there's been no issues doing so.
So that's my guide. Hopefully this helps some of you. There's definitely a learning curve and some elbow grease required to set these addons up, but afterwards it's going to feel great cause you're going to be tagging at least twice as fast, if not faster! Anyways, feel free to ask questions, and happy tagging! :)
Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-text-expander
Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com...honjhdlmndigalhandb?hl=en (haven't really used this one extensively so...let me know how it works! But it should be the same thing)
These addons basically use the same principles that actual typing professions (like a medical transcriptionist) use. Instead of typing out every single word you create shortcuts for long words and phrases, saving you time and keystrokes.
So when I run across an image of a solo female model I don't have to type out "1girl female female_only solo", instead I type "1g" (a shortcut I created, short for "1 girl") and then the addon will change that shortcut to "1girl female female_only solo" for me. You can already imagine how this saves a ton of time.
Obviously you want to create shortcuts that aren't going to come up in the course of normal typing, like you don't want to create a shortcut of "ha" for "huge_ass" because if you try to type "happen" or "inhabit" or whatever word which might contain "ha" it's just going to quickly replace the "ha" part with "huge_ass", HOWEVER, I have found a way around this by always creating my shortcuts with a space at the end like so: "ha ". So that you have to press the spacebar to activate the shortcut, so if you type "happy" it wouldn't actually trigger the shortcut. I find this to be a best practice when creating shortcuts, so I suggest you add a space after every shortcut! (However I still wouldn't use "ha" because you might want to type "ha ha" or something...I personally use "hua" to type out "ass huge_ass" for me).
Now I could share my personal list of shortcuts with you but uh, I think that would be too overwhelming because I've literally created hundreds of them. Your eyes would kinda just glaze over looking at such a long-ass list, and so ultimately it wouldn't be very useful to you. I think it's best if you *slowly* create your own shortcuts! I say slowly because you need time to adapt and remember to use the shortcuts you've made, so I'd reccomend only creating a few at a time and focusing on some of your most-used tags, get comfortable using those, then make a few more, get comfortable using those, and so on. If you trying to write out like 100 shortcuts at once you're gunna forget to use half of them and just get lost in the weeds.
Now if you get really into shortcuts like me you'll eventually max out the number of shortcuts you can make. It's honestly really stupid, because how much memory can a fucking text shortcut take up? I tried to ask some coders on Fiverr if they could expand the memory capacity of the addon for me, but they basically told me the code is protected and they can't do it. Go figure. But anyways if you do max out your shortcuts, at least on Firefox, you can download a SECOND text expander addon and keep going! I use this one (I guess it's no longer available from the official source? I did find it again here: gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=2801813) simply called "Text Expander" so I could keep going. If you're uncomfortable running an out-of-date addon there's others on the store too just search "text expander" and you'll see them. Anyways, I run Auto Text Expand AND Text Expander at same time and there's been no issues doing so.
So that's my guide. Hopefully this helps some of you. There's definitely a learning curve and some elbow grease required to set these addons up, but afterwards it's going to feel great cause you're going to be tagging at least twice as fast, if not faster! Anyways, feel free to ask questions, and happy tagging! :)