Comments on: Mac: Organize your files with tags http://www.distracto.net/2005/05/mac-organize-yo/ Short-lived Obsessions with Interesting Things Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: marc nothrop http://www.distracto.net/2005/05/mac-organize-yo/comment-page-1/#comment-53 marc nothrop Sun, 15 May 2005 14:11:27 +0000 http://blog.distracto.net/?p=32#comment-53 <p>Hey, I have to agree with you on the 'buzzwordiness' of the net. ; ) Tags are just categories, labels, variables, pick a name, but they're hardly a new concept. The somewhat clumsy 'folksonomy' is, as you say, an amateur, or community-developed ontology.</p> <p>As soon as I installed Tiger I set up the same system, but haven't really been using it a great deal -- my other thought had been to use Finder labels, even though they are much more limited -- they've been in the system a long while, and for a long time I've hoped for an unlimited number of labels, eps. pre-OS X, when you could also assign a title to a label colour. </p> <p>While this isn't the same as multiple tags per file, it would certainly be a start. I think I'll end up using a combination of Labels and Tags, for finer-grained organisation, and to stand out visually (as well as another search criterion) -- labels will just settle into their pre-OS X function as denoting status, and tags will be the real organising property.</p> <p>Having said all of that, since my work Mac isn't on Tiger yet, I'm really just using it on my PB, to 'tag' things 'red', to review them later.</p> Hey, I have to agree with you on the ‘buzzwordiness’ of the net. ; ) Tags are just categories, labels, variables, pick a name, but they’re hardly a new concept. The somewhat clumsy ‘folksonomy’ is, as you say, an amateur, or community-developed ontology.

As soon as I installed Tiger I set up the same system, but haven’t really been using it a great deal — my other thought had been to use Finder labels, even though they are much more limited — they’ve been in the system a long while, and for a long time I’ve hoped for an unlimited number of labels, eps. pre-OS X, when you could also assign a title to a label colour.

While this isn’t the same as multiple tags per file, it would certainly be a start. I think I’ll end up using a combination of Labels and Tags, for finer-grained organisation, and to stand out visually (as well as another search criterion) — labels will just settle into their pre-OS X function as denoting status, and tags will be the real organising property.

Having said all of that, since my work Mac isn’t on Tiger yet, I’m really just using it on my PB, to ‘tag’ things ‘red’, to review them later.

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