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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 2, 2014 at 08:56 AM

Tabbles 3 is at Bits du Jour today http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/tabbles/in=todays-deals-home

I post it here for reference. I will write a bit more at http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5375/

Posted by jimspoon
May 6, 2014 at 03:05 AM

File Meta is one to look at. What interests me about it - file tags are stored in the alternate data streams of the tagged files, so they travel with the files (so long as they stay on an NTFS filesystem). Also the tags are editable in Windows Explorer.

http://betanews.com/2013/06/06/file-metadata-lets-you-view-and-edit-metadata-for-all-file-types/

http://filemeta.codeplex.com/

version 1.2 of the program was released today - May 5 2014.

http://filemeta.codeplex.com/releases/view/121762

Posted by Hugh
May 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM

I use a Mac, for which there is a very deft, rule-based file manipulation application called Hazel, created by the developer Noodlesoft. (There may be an equivalent for Windows, but I’m not aware of it.) I use tags with Hazel to trigger filing actions in ‘traditional’ hierarchical folders in my filing system. My tags exist on the screen in a tag cloud, and I use them as a kind of stamp or signal to indicate to Hazel where I want my files filed, and how I want them renamed and labelled. I could use a file’s contents to trigger Hazel directly, but that seems to me to be slightly too risky. OS 10.9, Mavericks, is also an assistance with all this, because it has introduced tags.

There may be a better way; if so I’ll be very pleased to hear it.

Posted by Paul Korm
May 6, 2014 at 09:20 PM

Please tell more about what you using for a “tag cloud” “on the screen”—I know of a few Mac apps that will do something like this, but none that do it well

Hugh wrote:
>My tags exist on the screen in
>a tag cloud,

Posted by Hugh
May 7, 2014 at 07:51 AM

I use Yep, from Ironic Software; I believe that Leap from the same stable has similar functionality. I use Yep mainly because when I started to look at the tagging route, I discovered that I had a long-held licence. I also index my folders using DevonThink Pro Office - possibly overkill, but another overhang from previous use. (Yep and Leap have both appeared ‘abandoned’ by their developer; however within the last 12 months they have been updated to handle Mavericks tags, having previously used Open Meta. Yep does seem both adequate and stable.)

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