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Getting Things Done the Tiger Way
Getting Things Done is the new cool way for geeks and the digerati to check themselves organized. The book outlines various methods for dealing with the constant influx of data that today's internet age has delivered to us.brilliantdays.com has taken this theory and applies a little Tiger magic to make it very easy to do this on your Mac. First create an Automator action to add comments to your files with a click, and then combine that with Smart Folders that look for those comments, and wham! You're organized.
Somehow I still think my 'Desktop stuff' folder will live on.
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tom said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
why not make your desktop stuff a smart folder?
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Scott McNulty said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I suppose I could, but I don't see the point of it. That folder usually contains all the crap I have littered my desktop with, so if I created a smart folder with the contents of my desktop the files would still be there cluttering the place up.
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Macuser said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I don't ever have anything but my harddrive and my optical drive on my desktop. I accomplish this by putting everything in the main part of my harddrive. Now that I've got spotlight I dont even need to make clutter folders. I can see my desktop image(Which is much better than just a fullscreen view of a picture:-p). Plus my mac boots up with a happy mac(No stupid gray apple.).
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Chris said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
I've already started doing something like this. In fact within a few hours of getting Tiger. I just moved everything into Documents and create appropriate smart folders as needed. My only gripe is not with Spotlight but with the File Save dialog. We can give a file a name but we should also be able to give a file a comment at creation. What is the point of having excellent search and all this metadata if we have to first hunt down the new file to add the metadata after creation. It should be done at creation.
You can do this with Photoshop files, Spotlight indexes the creator name and various other PSD metadata. You should be able to do this, a bare minimum, as default with all file save dialogs. It should be part of the standard/default OS X gui toolkit.
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dan said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
The Getting Things Done concept is great - don't get me wrong - but as long as you can't "tag" your bits of information cross the apps I don't see the point here. It WOULD be great could you add the spotlight comment to a iCal items and emails too, THEN you'd be on the road to Get Things Done...
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