Awesomplete is... awesome

An earlier iteration of my blog software had an autocomplete widget for adding tags for when I was writing a post, but somewhere along the line I lost track of that version of the software, and I’ve just been winging it when I added tags to posts since then. Yesterday I ran across a reference to Awesomplete which is a lightweight autocomplete widget by Lea Verou, and now I’ve plugged it into the couple of places where I add tags.

I need to do some more behind-the-scenes work to clean up the tags in the system now, but this should help keep me on track in terms of knowing when I’m actually creating a new tag instead of using an existing one. (Like I could never remember if I have been using the “book” or “books” tag and would always have to look it up.)