Forum Discussion
Tag counts?
After asking for more than a year to bring back item counts, I believe that someone at AgileBits hates item counts and doesn't want to see them.
The widely accepted standard to show counts next to the item was available for a few days in nightly builds and was finally replaced by the barely usable counts at the end of the list and in the sort button.
The/My main purpose of item counts is to easily get an overview of how many items are belong to (sub)structures. Hiding the count doesn't give an overview at all. Having to scroll thousands of elements within a list to get to the end just to see the count is an awfull UI design. Putting the count into a sort order button is breaking the context of this button as sorting has nothing in common with counts.
macgirl 's last screenshot is a perfect example how item counts should be implemented and how they are used in almost all applications.
So please bring either back counts in the widely accepted way using counters next to the item they are referring to or just drop the completely. A simple show/hide option in the view menu could be used to avoid clutter.