Tags takes organization to a new level

Hi Brett,

I wonder if you could share your hacky AppleScrips?



Thanks in advance

you might want to have a look at punakea :-)

OpenMeta does look nice and I will definitely look at OpenMeta support in MailTags.

Can anyone speak to the resiliency of xattr data when restoring from backups?

One cautionary note about tagging mail messages with Tags: When you move messages to different folders, Mail doesn't simply move the cache file (emlx file) as a file system move. Rather, it reads in the contents of the cache file and writes out a new cache file in the new location. Consequently tags stored in the xattr data are NOT moved with the message because Mail is unaware of them.

Likewise, when you rebuild a mailbox or import messages (often from a backup) the xattr (tag) data is not preserved because it involves creating new cache files, not merely moving or copying files (with their xattr data)

This looks great.

For adding tags it's the best thing I've seen :)
For searching tagged content doesn't seem quite so good (e.g. if a tag returns a lot of results scrolling though all those results in that small window isn't ideal). But saying that this is a 1.0 release so maybe things will be improved in the future?

Using this to tag files & Leap to search/manage them (once the OpenMeta version is released) looks like it could be a great system.

Paul Kim at Noodlesoft (Hazel) is looking at OpenMeta support and hopefully we can get Philip Dow (Journler) to join in.

We are really looking forward to the knowledge, support, and contributions of other developers in the Mac community for fine-tuning OpenMeta.

Spotlight comments for tagging have a number of serious drawbacks:

Spotlight often gets confused and refuses to index tags in the comments section.

There is no standard for tagging in the comments. A few conventions, but nothing useful for 'the big time'.

Spotlight comments are supposed to be for comments!

I have spent days trying to get truly reliable performance from spotlight comments. They are a messy crutch. Plus don't forget that this OpenMeta thing supports ratings, authors, etc, etc...

--Tom

This looks just great. Really excited to give it a try !

Can't you just use the Spotlight Comments that is available in get Info to embed keywords and or descriptions?

Tags looks nice. It uses a new open source tagging, rating, and other metadata tool set called 'OpenMeta'. Please see http://www.ironicsoftware.com and the google code page:
http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/

Also - we have released a new free tagging application, 'Tagger'.

--Tom

This looks very cool - downloading the eval now. It sure looks like something that should be built into OS X. Maybe Apple will do a CoverFlow-like acquisition...?

Odd that the default hotkey is Ctrl-Space, which is also Quicksilver's default. You'd think that a lot of folks interested in Tags would also be Quicksilver users...