Recently-launched “Tags” is designed to bring a little organization into that chaotic world of yours. Essentially, the application allows you to tag emails, photos, documents and more and allows you to do so while you’re either working within the file (in one of the many supported applications) or perusing files via Finder.
What’s great about Tags lies not only with the fact that it can aide in the organization of hundreds, if not thousands, of your files but also in its simplicity. How might you go about tagging a document? Why, Ctrl+Space of course. That’s it. Keying the shortcut again will switch to a search mode that will allow you to easily find files with certain keywords attached. (This follows in the footsteps of many great applications bringing pure-wonderfulness via a simple shortcut; Google Desktop and Launchy being two apps off of the top of my head.)
(Note: I would have embedded the screencast here in order to provide you with a bit more information about the product but, unfortunately, it was only available as a QuickTime .mov – and I’ll have no part of that mess.)
The app, in the aging tradition of 3rd-party software titles for Mac OS, will require a little green to get started: $29 to be precise. It’s a small price to pay for sanity.
Windows Users: basic tagging functionality is built into Windows 7/Vista for certain file types but for an application similar to the Tags app mentioned above, Windows devotees can turn to tag2find, a small freeware application that, unfortunately, lost funding in 2008. However, according to the official site, there are plans to open tag2find up to the community through an upcoming open-source version.
[via Apple Downloads]
