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Posted by Hugh
Feb 10, 2009 at 03:57 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Here’s a freeware file tagging program for Windows, currently in
>beta:
>http://lunarfrog.com/
> >I haven’t tried it or tagging in general yet, but am
>warming up to the concept.
>

Very Mac-looking!

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 10, 2009 at 05:37 PM

I can see the value of tagging, but I can also see its major pitfalls, especially for someone like me. It seems that to be truly effective using tags, you need to be extremely disciplined in their use—not only making sure you tag EVERYTHING, but also making sure you are consistent in your tagging. But, see, the problem is, if I were that disciplined, I would have settled on one PIM long ago, learned everything about it and used it relentlessly. Or, to put this another way, if I were disciplined, I wouldn’t have such a bad case of CRIMP.

Don’t get me wrong, I use tags where possible in Mac applications. They are handy. But there is no way that I can see myself tagging every file I download or save.

Steve Z.

Posted by quant
Feb 10, 2009 at 10:31 PM

but the tags does not seem to be stored in the files ... are they?

Posted by Chris Thompson
Feb 11, 2009 at 03:44 AM

The tags are stored in a “Tags.wft” file in the program’s directory. Not really a clean solution.

—Chris

quant wrote:
>but the tags does not seem to be stored in the files ... are they?
> >Alexander
>Deliyannis wrote:
>>Here’s a freeware file tagging program for Windows, currently
>in
>>beta:
>>http://lunarfrog.com/
>>
>>I haven’t tried it or tagging in general
>yet, but am
>>warming up to the concept.
>>

Posted by Cassius
Feb 11, 2009 at 07:31 AM

The use of the file structure in Windows to simulate a PIM has been discussed before. See, for example, http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/880 . In that topic, I suggested that tags be entered into the “properties/custom” or “properties/summary” section of the file and then these tags could be searched for using any of a number of standard search engines. However, if I recall correctly, I later found some file types where this might not be possible. However, it’s worth another look.

-c

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