Comments on: Make Your Mac More Manageable With Tags

By: mifolame

mifolame — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:28:57 +0000

Do you know Tag Folders? http://web.me.com/jonstovell/Tag_Folders/Tag_Folders_Home.html

It’s free and very well done… It uses openmeta AND Spotlight Comments, so it can be compatible with a lot of tagging programs listed above (TagBot, Quicksilver, etc). It can import existing tags -or comment spotlight- and so on.

Hoping to be useful… Bye bye

MiFoLaMe

By: Matt Hoult

Matt Hoult — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:28:12 +0000

I started using Tags about a week ago and have really enjoyed it. I have stuck to using Spotlight for my searches, but using the hotkey to add tags to files is fairly painless. Of course there are as many issues with tags as there are with folder structures, but that’s another story. Overall it’s working well.

I agree with Mike however that OS X needs proper tagging built in. Easy access and modification of metadata has been called for for the last couple of major OS updates and nothing has happened. With iPhoto recognising faces and so on I should be able to find that stuff with Spotlight, I should be able to tag on save and I should be able to search for a keyword and have variances found also (viz. search for a word and have the plural results show also – bad example but you know what I mean).

By: Galley

Galley — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:37:46 +0000

@Mike Perry: Default Folder X allows you to enter Spotlight comments in the Save dialog box.
http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/

By: Rolf Schmolling

Rolf Schmolling — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:03:30 +0000

Hi, as a previous user of TagBot I’d like to comment:

The developers of TagBot have gone away, no updates or support available any more. Since on Leopard and recent updates of OSX have rendered TagBot useless to me (Tags overwrite previous tags, tag-count wrong etc.) besides the problem with spotlight-comments in the first place. So I am looking forward to move to a more robust tagging system based on openmeta. Still there are lots of bugs in Tags (being worked on) and I TagIt is quite rough on the edges too. What still has to be sorted out is proper importing/converting opf existing Tags-systems to openmeta, as well as proper management of tags.

Rolf

By: sherkaner

sherkaner — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:46:21 +0000

Tagit, mentioned above, is very similar to TagBot, but uses OpenMeta instead of the hacky spotlight comment &tags that TagBot (and Quicksilver) used. “Tags” however offers quite a bit more — it’s gives you more options for tagging, pops up with a hotkey, *and* it’s a really nice search tool. Tags is also compatible with OpenMeta tags, so you can use both interchangeably, and IronicSoftware’s next versions of Leap and Yep will also use OpenMeta (as well as some other software developers looking at supporting it).

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:55:51 +0000

How does this compare to TagBot?

By: rei

rei — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:02:23 +0000

Tagit from the makers of Yep at http://www.ironicsoftware.com is free : http://www.ironicsoftware.com/tagit/index.html

By: Joey Sichol

Joey Sichol — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:29:03 +0000

So if you don’t “maintain an obsessively well-organized folder structure”, you should buy tags to maintain an obsessively well-organized tag structure?

Why should I have to work so hard?

By: Rolf Schmolling

Rolf Schmolling — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:39:15 +0000

Hi,

the developer of DFX already promised to include openmeta-compatibillity… so that would teke care of ypur problem, Perry.

regards, Rolf

By: Mike Perry

Mike Perry — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:40 +0000

Great idea! But this is tagging afterward. What we need is an easy way to tag files on Save and Save As windows when we first create a document. And it should be more than keywords. It should be savvy enough to know what sort of data should be saved with a document, information such as dates, location and people for pictures.