# Handling a Large Number of Annotation Choices with the Taxonomy Tag **URL:** \ **Category:** Slack Archivist\ **Created:** [July 31, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60 "2023-07-31T16:48:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Archivist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Archivist](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Archivist)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60/1 "2023-07-31T16:48:52Z")
**Michael Bunsen** : Is there a recommended way to handle _many many_ choices for a classification task? We have about 3000 species names. I am using the Filter tag. It might be more performant if we could at least hide the full list of choices when nothing has been typed in the filter box. ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/labelstudio/original/1X/b2e47ed24055f4df8b1b9e37e4337a525d9a3b59.png) **abubakar.saad.891** : Hello Michael, You can try using taxonomy tag for this. It can help you even group up classes ([https://labelstud.io/tags/taxonomy.html](https://labelstud.io/tags/taxonomy.html)) **Michael Bunsen** : Ah! That may be just the ticket! Thank you **Michael Bunsen** : If it want to populate those choices from the API would it be best to update the label\_config of the project, or embed the choices within the data of each task? **abubakar.saad.891** : Update the label\_config, its be faster that way **Michael Bunsen** : @abubakar.saad.891 I’m having good luck with the Taxonomy tag. Is there a hotkey that opens up the search box? ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/labelstudio/original/1X/b0eb93cfce372d19a74e0b2825141ea218ceffd5.png) **Note** : _This post was generated by the Label Studio Archive Bot from a conversation in the [Label Studio Slack](https://slack.labelstud.io/?source=discourse), a gathering place for the Label Studio community. Someone in the community thought this was worth sharing!_ _If this post answered a question for you, hit the Like button - we use that to assess which posts to put into docs._ ---
**Author:** ![Archivist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Archivist](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Archivist)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60/2 "2023-07-31T16:49:01Z")
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**Author:** ![Archivist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Archivist](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Archivist)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60/3 "2023-08-05T17:42:42Z")
**Danielle McKenney** : Are there any suggestions for how to do something like this for a labelling task, where an image may contain several bounding boxes, each with a different label? ---
**Author:** ![Archivist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Archivist](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Archivist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60/4 "2023-08-07T23:18:09Z")
**Chris Hoge (HumanSignal)**: @abubakar.saad.891 might have some ideas on how to do this. ---
**Author:** ![Archivist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Archivist](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Archivist)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60/5 "2023-08-08T15:01:14Z")
**abubakar.saad.891** : @Danielle McKenney You can just use labels with collapse tag. That gives you similar functionality ---
**Author:** ![Archivist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Archivist](https://community.labelstud.io/u/Archivist)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.labelstud.io/t/handling-a-large-number-of-annotation-choices-with-the-taxonomy-tag/60/6 "2023-08-10T17:41:23Z")
**Michael Bunsen** : Is there a key command for adding focus to the taxonomy tag?