Feature Request - Location Tags

I suppose. But there are definitely times when I put the foil in my binder and my non foil in my junk rares.

Plus it would require double entry of all those cards, though maybe there's some way to do it when adding to inventory I've yet to discover.

I still don't have a great solution for this.  Especially since I don't have a way to "Show in Deck" to see a location.

I have entered about 3500 cards, from 5 binders, and three 800 count boxes.  Being able to search and see where my 8 gitaxian probes are located would be a great help.  I know I have 4 in a deck, but don't know what happened to the other 4.

hate to be the bearer of bad news rlandrum, but don't hold your breath

feature requests fall into black holes around here.  About a year ago it would atleast get a "it's on the list" type response, but now it's just ignored.

Last edited by physikal (2017-01-20 07:10:30)

It's not an intentional knock against Sebi.  I'm sure he's a great guy, and obviously does great work.  But if you look up "ignore":

ig·nore
iɡˈnôr/
verb
refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally.
"he ignored her outraged question"
synonyms:    disregard, take no notice of, pay no attention to, pay no heed to; More
fail to consider (something significant).
"direct satellite broadcasting ignores national boundaries"
LAW
(of a grand jury) reject (an indictment) as groundless.

Key word "acknowledge".  If we saw regular updates to the site outside of the database updates, and some of those updates included community requested features, then we could assume what you say is correct.  But the fact that there is no acknowledgement, no public road map, lackluster communication about the future.  The perception is that it's ignored.  Again, not a knock, just a perceived reality. 

From a previously paying members perspective, I support the site expecting the money to be re-invested on some level, even if it's a fraction of what I pay.  Even if that re-investment is just communication about what's going on, what's planned (even if it's nothing) is it, I'd be happy.

You could argue that. It is my personal opinion that when you're running a service with paying customers, you should probably take that approach into consideration. 

I want to reiterate a currently functional method for storing location info:

1. Create a virtual deck for each location and put them all in one folder.
2. When adding or removing physical cards, do the same for their virtual 'location decks'

• To make finding locations faster, use a naming convention that makes them visually distinctive. For example, I precede each deck name with three hyphens. ( --- Trade Binder #1 ) That way, I can quickly find where the cards are even if the card page has numerous other decks mixed alongside the 'location decks'.

• This same method works for regular decks as well. (I use "!" as a naming convention for those) Also, if you have a large main storage location like me, don't bother creating a deck for it; anything that doesn't have an affiliated 'location deck' can be inferred to be there. Even if it it's split among multiple boxes, as long as there are rules for those splits, (by rarity, set, color, type, foils, etc) it's easy to go straight to the correct box.

• If a location's cards are added to the inventory without a 'location deck', just sort the inventory by date added and narrow down the first and last cards added from that location by checking inventory cards against the physical location. Then, just export that list and add it to the 'location deck'.

• It's often not necessary to remove cards from their 'location deck' if you're trading or selling them. If a card isn't in your inventory, its presence in any 'location decks' can safely be ignored.

Example
Finding where specific versions of cards are can actually be relatively simple. Even in the not-so-simple Fireblast page below, I can determine where each copy is, due to a few organizational rules. I'll explain the process in detail.

Only 10 of the 15 have "---" or "!", so the other 5 must be in my big storage box, (categorized in the 6cmc red instants section) and consequently marked for trade. There are 8 total for trade, so the other 3 can only be in the "---" marked locations (My decked cards are rarely marked for trade). One of those locations is "--- Sealed DD: Jace v [Chandra]---", so clearly 2 of the 3 are there, and they're the 2 JVC versions. The last one for trade should be in the "--- Trade Binder #1", since that only contains tradelisted cards; of the tradelisted versions, the FNM foil seems the most tradeable (i.e. valuable). By process of elimination, the 4 gold-bordered editions and one Visions edition should be in the big box together.

That leaves 7 non-tradelisted Fireblasts: 5 are in regular decks (Goblins and Burn) and 2 are in the only remaining locations: Cube and EDH Foils. I prefer original-printing foils for cube, so that leaves the Fire and Lightning edition foil for the EDH Foils location, and the 5 Visions editions are in Goblins and Burn.

• Deck names can store extra info. If, for some reason, I preferred the F&L edition in cube, I could record that exception in the notes of the Cube 'location deck' and make the name something like "! Cube (non-proxied) *E:Fireblast" with E for Exceptions, or just "! Cube (non-proxied) [Exceptions in notes]" so mousing over the title on the card page would alert me to click through and realize that the cube has a different edition than I would normally prefer.

I just want to add that I agree 100% with that. That's also what I really want. I tried doing some tagging like BetweenWalls mentioned, but it's cumbersome to enter and to check, not to mention you can't tag cards (or at least editions) individually.

+1 for this feature. The lack of this feature is the first thing that has me considering not to go for a premium account. Considering I am coming here mostly to manage my collection it would be good to be able to find out where my cards are without having to do semi complicated hacks as BetweenWalls suggested. (Althought it is a good suggestion and thankyou for taking your time to do so.)

God I would become a Premium user the second this functionality gets introduced.  I'm currently going through my whole inventory and sorting my cards into throw-away decks just to have some semblance of this, and it's super annoying and cumbersome.

Could also just add the feature to make folders in your inventory, still counting the whole as 1 inventory but with subfolders ---> then i have a subfolder binders with binder 1  23 and boxes 1 2 3 and so on... pretty simple.... no need to have tags on a card (that takes a lot mor time when entering the cards....) just add them to a folder of your inventory and if changed switch folder, for cards in decks you have a folder "in deck" and add it to a decklist....

this is the only thing i miss here and the point why im looking for something else before i put a lot of work into this, unless there is  fast response to this post

I really like this idea and seems simple enough.  The existing framework is already in place.  Just need to add ability to create custom field.  I would love to see this feature added as well!!! 

Sebi- Could you chime in on what it would take to do this?  How realistic would it be to implement?