Mac 101: Tag almost anything in Leopard

Yeah... Ignore the above comment. (Stupid 1Password bug...)

I've tried tagging files and attempting to file everything into one large receptacle with Quicksilver, tags, TagBot, etc. I just couldn't get it to work. Mainly because TagBot kept breaking.

I switched back to hierarchal folders and Journler as my main repository.

@Norman: I've tried the same thing, but to no avail. I'd love if someone can help on this.

I created an Automator plug-in to tag my files. Simply right-click on the file, go to the plug-in (I named mine "Tagger"), and up pops a dialog box asking for a tag.

All you have to do is create an Automator script using the action "Set Spotlight Comments for Finder Items" and make sure the option to show the process is checked. You can also create custom Taggers for tags you use often.

You forgot the best one- shift option k. The apple logo.

it wont work

Besides tagging support to the save dialogs, it would sure be useful to get a list of all the tags used with an autocomplete support (like in iPhoto, del.icio.us or Blogger). Otherwise it's hard to remember the exact tag that was used earlier and the risk of typos also increases.

I've been using k+something. That's how apple tags it's online documents, so I figured they must have thought about it. Or maybe it's just for "keyword".
Using a special symbol doesn't seem necessary when I think about it, why not just any a letter?

The bullet character (•) is option-8.

The ° character mentioned is a degree symbol.

It would be one less key to hold down to use the • character, but really, you could use any odd character you wanted and it should work the same. However, I have heard about certain characters not showing up in Spotlight searches.

How about using something like default folder that gives a spotlight comment box to save dialogs?

Does anybody know of way to sort the savedsearch (smart folder) according to date created? All I can see is sort by date modified, which isn't useful for my application.