I posted a new video on YouTube that shows how filters work in Micro.blog, including a brand new feature: Micro.blog can analyze your blog posts using AI magic to generate keywords and file posts into categories. This is for Micro.blog Premium subscribers. 🪄

@manton Cool! I don’t have Premium, but might upgrade at some point.

Personally, this new feature would also be a great tool to give me ideas on what categories to add. My blogging is all over the place and I hardly remember what I’ve blogged about, so it would be interesting and useful to find out what I actually write about most. 😊

A nice addition would be to somehow show how commonly used various tags are. Like a tag cloud, for example.

@manton Awesome new feature! Thank you for it.

@jimmitchell Thanks!

@robertbirming I agree, there is a lot of potential here beyond this initial feature. I think we’ll probably have a special page to browse and manage auto-generated keywords in the future.

@manton is there a way to bulk delete categories? I unwittingly imported possibly hundreds with an old Blogger import…

@joeross Unfortunately no. We want to add this. In the meantime, if you want all categories cleared, send me an email to help@micro.blog I can manually clear them.

@manton I turn out to have enough keywords that it takes forever to drag each one up to the keywords field at the top. It’d be cool if I could just click on one have it it get copied into the keywords field instead of having to do the drag.

@philipbrewer Thanks, I’ll work on improving this. It those cases it’s probably easier to just type the keyword again into the field.

@manton Can the AI-generated keywords be used for any other purpose apart from filters? For example, to populate a meta tag in the “head” partial template? Thanks.

@artkavanagh Not yet. In the future we can use them for many things, but the filters are the first thing. Good idea about meta tags.

@manton love this! I like how you are leaning into using AI for a feature like this. Makes a lot of sense. I can see how these keywords also may enable some other forms of post groupings! 👏

@manton Thanks, Manton.

@manton This is cool and a good use of AI. Adding alt-text to images is another one I've seen done well.

@manton very cool

@manton ugh. I really want to keep the 10 or so I always intended to use. I’ve been trying to delete some of them but it looks like I’m a rate limit exceeding edge case. I think when the categories page tries to load the post count on each category row, that’s when I hit the rate limit pretty fast. I found this out the hard way while trying to vibe code some way to programmatically press a bunch of delete buttons all at the same time via the JavaScript console…

(PS: kudos on the recent update that doesn’t import WP tags as categories, that should save future importers from my fate 😆)

@manton Hey, I’ve moved to the acceptance stage of mourning the few categories I actually want. If your offer to nuke them all is still feasible, please do that when you get around to it.