I change the names of groups and add tags fairly often because I use tags to do a lot of things. The script looks for items in the name that start with @ and end with a delimiter (one of *, _, !). The end delimiter tells the script to search for a matching tag of a certain type – so my tags of people all start with “p.” and my tags of organizations all start with “o.”. If it finds a matching person, org, etc tag, the script tags the tag or document with the matched tag. If it doesn’t find a match, it prompts me to see if I want to create a new person or organization tag. I am basically using text in the name as a short cut for adding certain kinds of tags. I want it to check every document name and every new tag I create because they all might have the @ indicator in them. It isn’t an effective shortcut for me if it doesn’t check everything for an @ indicator.
It may be a lot of overhead, but so is tagging every document or new tag with a person or organization tag. It seems to work ok and I’m not sure how else to get the behavior I want. I would be open to splitting it up, but I don’t see a way around checking each document and tag name for @indicators and the best time to check seems to be whenever I change the name or create a new name. I’m open to suggestions for alternatives.