(2)
Your rating: Now say why...
Tag Folders are Smart Folders with Drag-and-Drop simplicity.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
Customizable and easy as pie... Making a new Tag Folder is as simple as clicking on the "New Tag" Tag Folder. Drop files onto "New Tag" to automatically make a
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
Customizable and easy as pie... Making a new Tag Folder is as simple as clicking on the "New Tag" Tag Folder. Drop files onto "New Tag" to automatically make a
What's New
Version 2.6:
- Fixes a bug that could cause Tag Folders to claim incorrectly that OpenMeta was not installed and suggest reinstalling.
- Fixes a bug that prevented tags from being listed in dialog boxes on non-English localizations.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Tag Folders User Discussion (Write a Review)
Overall:
(2)
(2)
| Downloads:29,661 |
| Version Downloads:2,761 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:22 Jul 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
Overall (Version 2.x):   |
| Features: |
| Ease of Use: |
| Value: |
| Stability: |
-
-
-
Tag Folders are Smart Folders with Drag-and-Drop simplicity.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
Customizable and easy as pie... Making a new Tag Folder is as simple as clicking on the "New Tag" Tag Folder. Drop files onto "New Tag" to automatically make a new Tag Folder to contain them.
Modify your Tag Folder's search criteria to make it as simple or as complex as you like. It will add all the specified tags to the files dropped onto it. It can be set to only tag files that meet certain criteria. It can even remove unwanted tags at the same time.
Nesting instincts... Tag Folders can nest inside one another. Simply drop one Tag Folder onto another to create a hierarchy of Tag Folders.
Nested Tag Folders inherit the tags of their parents, and pass them on to their children. Add your "Project 1" Tag Folder to your "Work" Tag Folder, and any files added to "Project 1" will also appear in "Work".
Plays well with others... Tag Folders uses the emerging OpenMeta tagging standard for Mac OS X, which makes one set of tags universally accessible to all apps that support them. Tag Folders works seamlessly with all OpenMeta apps. Tag Folders can also write copies of tags to Spotlight Comments to maintain compatibility with legacy tagging applications that don't yet support OpenMeta, such as TagBot, Leap (v 1.1), Punakea, the Quicksilver File Tagging plugin, and more. You may also define a custom syntax to suit your needs.
Fits your style... Tag Folders can be accessed any way you like. Put them in the Finder Sidebar. Add your favourites to the Dock, or all of them in a Stack. Add a Finder toolbar button to choose them from a list. Store them on your Desktop, or in Documents, or wherever you want. Use dialogs instead of drag-and-drop, if you prefer. It is up to you.
Tag Folders keep track of themselves, and can always be accessed from a central location of your choosing, no matter where they are.
Automated, because that's what computers are for... Tag Folders includes a helper application called Tag Prompter that makes it almost effortless to keep your files properly tagged and organized. Tag Prompter watches folders for new or modified files and prompts you to tag them automatically. Save a file, and a dialog box will appear within a moment or two offering to tag that document by adding it to any Tag Folders you choose. Aside from selecting the appropriate Tag Folder(s) from the list, no further work on your part is needed.
And more... Tag Folders have more features designed to make them as simple and as powerful as possible. Read about them in the user guide.
Smart Folders can find a file anywhere on your computer. Regular folders let you organize your files with ease. Tag Folders do both.
Drop any file onto a Tag Folder, and it will immediately be tagged to match the Tag Folder's search criteria. Open the Tag Folder, and every file with that tag appears in a Finder window, available for use.
Customizable and easy as pie... Making a new Tag Folder is as simple as clicking on the "New Tag" Tag Folder. Drop files onto "New Tag" to automatically make a new Tag Folder to contain them.
Modify your Tag Folder's search criteria to make it as simple or as complex as you like. It will add all the specified tags to the files dropped onto it. It can be set to only tag files that meet certain criteria. It can even remove unwanted tags at the same time.
Nesting instincts... Tag Folders can nest inside one another. Simply drop one Tag Folder onto another to create a hierarchy of Tag Folders.
Nested Tag Folders inherit the tags of their parents, and pass them on to their children. Add your "Project 1" Tag Folder to your "Work" Tag Folder, and any files added to "Project 1" will also appear in "Work".
Plays well with others... Tag Folders uses the emerging OpenMeta tagging standard for Mac OS X, which makes one set of tags universally accessible to all apps that support them. Tag Folders works seamlessly with all OpenMeta apps. Tag Folders can also write copies of tags to Spotlight Comments to maintain compatibility with legacy tagging applications that don't yet support OpenMeta, such as TagBot, Leap (v 1.1), Punakea, the Quicksilver File Tagging plugin, and more. You may also define a custom syntax to suit your needs.
Fits your style... Tag Folders can be accessed any way you like. Put them in the Finder Sidebar. Add your favourites to the Dock, or all of them in a Stack. Add a Finder toolbar button to choose them from a list. Store them on your Desktop, or in Documents, or wherever you want. Use dialogs instead of drag-and-drop, if you prefer. It is up to you.
Tag Folders keep track of themselves, and can always be accessed from a central location of your choosing, no matter where they are.
Automated, because that's what computers are for... Tag Folders includes a helper application called Tag Prompter that makes it almost effortless to keep your files properly tagged and organized. Tag Prompter watches folders for new or modified files and prompts you to tag them automatically. Save a file, and a dialog box will appear within a moment or two offering to tag that document by adding it to any Tag Folders you choose. Aside from selecting the appropriate Tag Folder(s) from the list, no further work on your part is needed.
And more... Tag Folders have more features designed to make them as simple and as powerful as possible. Read about them in the user guide.
Copyright © 2012 MacUpdate LLC
- -
Unfortunately, it seems that Lion has made changes to Smart Folders that cause Tag Folders to break. As some of you may have noticed, I have not been very active for some time on this software. The amount of time it would take to update Tag Folders to work with Lion while also maintaining backwards compatibility with Snow Leopard and below is simply more than I can spare at this time in my life. Therefore, I'm afraid I must end my work on Tag Folders.
If anyone wants to take up development of the software, please do! It is, after all, GPL software. If you do, please post a link to your new and improved version here on MacUpdate so that we can all find it.
For those of you still running Snow Leopard and below, the software will continue to work as is. For those of you upgrading to Lion, I recommend looking into other OpenMeta software. You can get a list of such software at http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/wiki/OpenMetaApplications. I personally enjoy Ali Rantakari's Tagger and TagLists.
Thanks again to everyone who used Tag Folders, and even more thanks to all of you who reported bugs, suggested new ideas, submitted fixes, and so on. Without you, this software would never have been a fraction as useful as it was. Cheers to you all, and happy tagging!
Jon
+23
Fontbot reviewed on 17 Jan 2011
-3
Sebastian_szwarc reviewed on 27 Dec 2010
It's also difficult to see omtags set by other applications, after installation we start with empty list of tags - very frustrating.
Need to wait if you want to use it seriously.
+1
+149
http://sourceforge.net/projects/addspotlightcom/
+4
+113
Now, if Spotlight comments alone are enough for you, and you've found an interface that works for you, then by all means use it. If you need to go beyond the basics, however, you'll want to look into OpenMeta-based options. Tag Folders is only one of them; many others can be found at http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/wiki/OpenMetaApplications.
+149
+113
+95
+113
Fixed now. :)
+5
+1
+113
Sometime this afternoon the zip file somehow became 0 B in length instead of its proper 3.3 MB, causing the download to be just an empty file. I've uploaded another copy now, and it seems to be downloading properly. If there are any more problems, email me at tag-folders@googlegroups.com
+95
+9
+113
http://groups.google.com/group/tag-folders
+113
+113
+7
I like the idea of this product, but the automatic tagging doesn't seem to be working. I'm using 10.5.4
+1
+113
During testing I noticed that occasionally files on the Desktop would have the tag applied to their Spotlight comments, but it would take a few minutes for the change to be reflected in the Spotlight database, and thus for the file to show up in the Tag Folder's Smart Folder. This always cleared itself up after a few minutes on the occasions it happened. If you want an immediate fix, temporarily moving the file into another folder typically does the job.
+7
+6
+2
+113
the origin message was in chinese so i tryed to translate it.
--------------------------------------
unable to set
"property list file "~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.jonstovell.TagFolders.tagprompter.plist""
to
"{"osascript","/Applications/TagPrompter.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/TagPrompterScript.scpt"}"
--------------------------------------
+113
+1
i was trying to test version 1.2 today.
Seems like the Install Tag Folders.app has a serious problem. In my case i just get a dialog which is higher then my entire screen displaying permission denies for each copy operation in your script.
So it looks for me like your installer script is not able to offer a password dialog if a non-admin users tries to run the installer.
Most apps do offer a authentification dialog if a non-admin user tries to install something.
Advantage: users can keep non-admins and just use an admin-account for installations without being forced to swtich to that admin account.
At least that is what it looks like at the moment for me.
Feel free to contact me if you need screenshots about that problem or anything else.
best regards
fidel
+113