Comments on: Folksonomies in Mac OS X?

By: Pablo Naveira

Pablo Naveira — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:15:22 +0000

What to use them for? OSX has a very good “search engine” inside docs!

By: Matt Schinckel

Matt Schinckel — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:56:29 +0000

@michal: That’s all well and good, for metadata about a file that is actually in a file, like keywords in documents.

What about metadata about a file that doesn’t exist in it, like a description of an image. You might have it in an EXIF tag in a JPEG, but what about a GIF image that is of a logo, but (due to whatever reasons) is only able to be called 2.gif?

(If you can’t guess, I’m working with an issue like this right now!)

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By: mockriot » Folksonomy is no good for organizing files

mockriot » Folksonomy is no good for organizing files — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:59:27 +0000

[...] Josh Porter posted this morning asking whether people thought tagging could work well for organizing files on your operating system, instead of folders. With metadata capabilities built into Mac OS X Tiger, it was only a matter of time before someone started using tags to keep track of their files. The Mac search system, Spotlight, provides ways to attach metadata to files that could help us find them much more easily than searching through our trove of hierarchical folders. [...]

By: Michal Migurski

Michal Migurski — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:30:44 +0000

Spotlight leapfrogs tags entirely, as I see it.

Why bother with them, if OS X provides a usable infrastructure for searching inside documents? For example, I’ve been using smart folders in Mail to organize myself – no need to tag or sort into folders, just list out the relevant characteristics for a given project or context (subject contents, recipient domains, etc.) and learn to not worry about the occasional false positive.

Smart folders do the same thing for documents in the Finder.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:16:48 +0000

The biggest drawback is that Spotlight requires hefty CPU power to truly be efficient… i.e., my little iBook G4 hates smart folders and the like. So while the nerdy gadget kids with their shiny MacBooks and MacBook Pros are prolly drooling over the idea, I don’t think it’ll catch on consumer-wise until people feel like it’s an instantaneous operation…