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TagoMan enables you to tag, label and annotate files, as well as many common record types such as emails, iCal events, URL links or address entries in easy and consistent way. The ability to associate one item with another across application boundaries dynamicaly by means of using common tag or label, makes it possible to organize your data in dynamic sets, grouping items together based on its logical relevance rather then hierarchical structure of the file system. Now Supporting OpenMeta
What's New
Version 2.0.45:
- resolve DropBox's compatibility problem
- enable the selection menu right after the startup
- resolve crash cased by shared tag list
- remove 'Reorganize Tags' menu entry (use the Automator instead)
- mark 'store Finder comments' as experimental (doesn't work for some users)
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Downloads:5,610 |
| Version Downloads:2,482 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:02 Jun 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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TagoMan enables you to tag, label and annotate files, as well as many common record types such as emails, iCal events, URL links or address entries in easy and consistent way. The ability to associate one item with another across application boundaries dynamicaly by means of using common tag or label, makes it possible to organize your data in dynamic sets, grouping items together based on its logical relevance rather then hierarchical structure of the file system. Now Supporting OpenMeta
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Sebwin reviewed on 19 Feb 2011
An integrated dedicated global tag search interface à la Spotlight would be fantastic.
Only thing that does not work for me: The "recently used" section in the tagging dialog seems somewhat buggy: Tags used do not persist between sessions and the ones that do appear do so doubly sometimes.
Still: absolutely top!
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i've tried this a few times and like it so far. i need to use it more before rating. but so far so good. i like the fact that i don't have to start a standalone program to make tags and it just opens a pop-up in the finder or program i'm using and the regular spotlight search finds it...
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Bdikkat reviewed on 05 Apr 2010
For instance, the "Tag [Finder's, or whatever's] current selection" doesn't immediately show up after the program is launched.. later (after what I don't know) it finally shows up.
Also, if you uncheck the preference "show last applied tag in the menu bar", it shows it, anyway.
Also, if you try to set a hotkey for tagging the selected item in the finder, it won't accept anything.
The "Reorganize Tags" interface is not really a tag organizing interface, though it should be.
Are there any other tagging apps that write the tags to the finder's comments?
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How do you tell the version in the app? There's nothing in the Finder's "Get Info", or in any menu in the app.
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I have looked further into the files I have tagged and indeed a few have had the spotlight comments disappear so perhaps I spoke to soon. Sorry about that you are correct they do disappear.
In the end though for me it doesn't matter as the tags are used solely for getting Hazel to put the files where I want. Say I download or create a file I then tag it with a specific keyword drop it in a folder monitored by Hazel and then it gets sorted to the appropriate folder, once it is in the folder it doesn't matter to me if the tag is there or not but obviously if you rely on the tags for organization it is a pretty big flaw.
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The solution is to 'clear the recently used tag list' in the TagoMan's preferences
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Steven Goodheart reviewed on 05 Nov 2009
First, a small point, but I'd change the name "Reorganization Manager" to just "Tag Manager." You don't really "organize" your tags there; that's were you find and modify your tags. I'd called it "Tag Manager." My two bits. :)
One of the advantages of TagoMan over say, Tagit (another fine and *free* program) is that you can tag files, e-mails, whatever, just about anywhere through either a hot-key or from the menubar. With Tagit, you have to drag the file you want to tag to the Tagit dock icon, and of course, this means Tagit is only for *files.* The scope of TagoMan is much broader and therefore more useful, which is no slight at all to Tagit.
I had no trouble finding or retaggin any of the files I tagged through the "Reorganization Manager." I'd give TagoMan a solid 4 or even 5 stars on functionality.
But I'd love to see some interface enhancements to make TagoMan even more useful. In the menubar, I'd love to see the addition of a list of tags I'm now using...either as a pop-up list in the menu, or as a menu choice that would take me to some place in the "Reorganization (Tag) Manager" where all my currently used tags are shown, as a list or cloud. Then, instead of having to do a search for tags, I could just click on a tag, and TagoMan would show me all items tagged with that tag.
Another advantage of this enhancement is this: I sometimes forget what in the heck I tagged something as. If I tagged something long ago, will it show up in "Recent Tags?" I want TagoMan to keep track of the tags I've used in a more global way, not just when I'm doing tagging by using the "recent tags" list. Another advantage in having the tags avaiable in the menubar is that I could select an item, and e-mail, or calendar event, etc, and then click on the menubar to select from a list of tags and just tag it that way. No need for me to see a dialog box unless I want to create and add a new tag.
None of these suggestions are criticisms of the program, which works great. It's just when you start using and relying on a utility like this, you begin to think of ways to speed up the process.
Anyway, kudos to the author...he or she has created a nifty free program that has become part of my workflow.
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x-devonthink-item://28B5537C-C625-497B-81FB-F475036F4E8D
and if you paste and then click on that link in another program, like MacJournal, or OmniFocus, or EagleFiler, or iCal, or BusyCal, you are immediately taken to that item in DevonThink. Or in MacJournal, you can do a "Copy URL of Entry" which makes a link of your entry that looks like this:
macjournal://%23InBox/Test%20Entry
In many other Mac programs, you can paste this link and then when you click on it, you are taken directly to the MacJournal entry you got the "url" of.
Using this method, I can link any item in my DevonThink Pro 2.0 database, or in MacJournal, or OmniFocus, with an entry in iCal or BusyCal and vice versa. EagleFiler does this with a "Copy Record Link" which produces this kind of paste-able link:
x-eaglefiler://open?library=~/Documents/PIM%20Data/Eagle%20Filer%20Main%20Library/Eagle%20Filer%20Main%20Library.eflibrary&recordGUID=szU02WIaRAuibS9Ez-bZCQ
So, the ability to create dynamic links is already available in good Mac programs. But TagoMan 2.0.1 promises to take this kind of functionality to another level of connectivity and integration across your Mac apps. The "front end" looks good and I love the idea of having dynamically connected data sets across multiple programs.
I can't wait to give this a thrashing this weekend and see how it works out in practice. I'll post my impressions here when I'm more familiar with TagoMan 2, but I just wanted to say that the *idea* of this program is terrific and is something I wish was built-in to the Mac OS itself (more than just having item links/urls, as we have now.) I'm really curious to see how the implementation is in real life.
HINT: it is possible to refer to a tag by using a link e.g. tag://MyTag. This way you can link to group of files
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Sorry to hear that EagleFiler and MacJournal can't be scripted by you....and thanks for the tip about linking to a group.
Haven't had time to thrash TagoMan 2 as I had hoped this weekend, but will certainly get to it soon.
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Major Mauser reviewed on 23 Oct 2009
Select File put your TAGS on it done. The cool thing is the Tag window opens as a Save Pane within the application of the file type that is being tagged.
The one thing that I thought was needed was a Refresh button when searching for similar Tags. Great work so far... Still needs some care on some interface scroll bars...But the interface design is really well thought out and Mac like.
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This is exactly why the OpenMeta project got started, so people don't have to (and hopefully wouldn't) try and roll their own attribs and values. 8^(
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http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/
TagoMan seems to be a really useful app with a lot of promise. If it could read and write the OpenMeta tags I already have in place, it would probably find a way into my workflow in short order.
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