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Tags allows you to manage all your files so that you can easily find the files that you need, when you need them.

Tag everything on your Mac: documents, emails, images and all other files. Quickly find files irrespective of where you saved them. You can bring up the Tag's UI with a simple keystroke in most applications, so that you can Tag files and search for Tags, wherever you are.

Tags are like keywords for files. Using tags allows you to group files which have something in common. You can apply many different Tags to a single file as well as apply the same Tag to multiple files. This allows you to associate files to one another in a way far superior to a rigid file / folder structure.

Features:

Tag Files directly in all supported applications
Full Spotlight Integration
Supports in application search
Create smart folders and mailboxes
Applescript support

Supported Applications: Tags works natively with basically all applications that properly support applescript.

Finder
Mail
Address Book
iPhoto
Safari
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel etc.)
Adobe Photoshop
Xcode
Rapidweaver
Omnioutliner
Pages
Keynote
Quicktime

Of course, even if the App is not supported, you can still always tag the resulting file in the Finder!

Version 2.0b:

Tags 2 is really a complete rewrite of both the code and the way we think it will be used. There are too many new features to list now, but let me point out the most important changes: The UI has completely changed. The new UI is clean and much more what people expect from a Mac OS application. Tags 2 intends to replace the standard spotlight UI for search. Spotlight is still driving everything behind the scenes, but the Tags 2 search interface is intended to give you comprehensive search results, instead of just returning tagged objects. Over the months of using Tags ourselves we have realized that when searching we cannot simply focus on tags alone, but also require the full text search capabilities that the standard spotlight interface has to offer. We have therefore created a search functionality which combines, what we think, is the best of both worlds. As the search interface is really intended to replace the standard searchlight UI, I suggest you give it a fighting chance by setting the shortcut for tags search to "command space" (in order for this to work you will have to manually remove the shortcut setting in the spotlight settings first to free it up). The Tag Browser has been completely redesigned to allow you to efficiently browse through your tagged items. Tags 2 is Snow Leopard only!

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Suggest something else:

KIHWANG KIM I use yep and leap and fresh and Path Finder.

I think that Tag method is going to be good method filing any things.

So I tried Tags and bought it.

This is great little program in my opinion.
(Version 2.0b)

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Oct 20 2009

ICONZ113 If you have leap, doesn't that make yep sort of redundant? or is there some other functionality yep contains? I don't know much about those apps. Also do they actually import? or just tag files?
(Version 2.0b)

LOUNGE DELUXE I have a SSD in my MacBook Pro and I have disabled Spotlight because the SSD is blazing fast at finding and accessing files, so there is no need for Spotlight and its indexing service. But I'm curious is Tags 2 will run on my system as it is supposed to, now that this new version sort of depends heavily on Spotlight?
(Version 2.0b)

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Oct 10 2009

MACSOLU Bad call to disable Spotlight. Tags v2 depends on it, and a significant amount of OS components and Apple apps and 3rd-party apps also depend on it. Don't fight Spotlight; just accept it as a core OS feature that's pretty much required at this point.
(Version 2.0b)

Oct 19 2009

LOUNGE DELUXE Obviously Spotlight is not a core OS feature that is required in general because I had it already disabled in OS X 10.5 and it never resulted in an error or inability to perform a specific OS task. OS X allows you to disable it, and like I wrote before there is no need at all to use Spotlight because of the SSD with its blazing fast read capabilities and extremely low seek times (0.1ms versus at least 12ms for a regular hdd). EasyFind serves all my purposes.

My question was if Tags 2.0 would run without Spotlight or not.
(Version 2.0b)

TDEV Im not sure how these guys claim to support tagging in iPhoto.

If you apply the tag with this app it is not searchable in iPhoto

If you search using Tags for a tag applied to a pic in iPhoto it finds the photo... in the Finder, not in iPhoto and opens it in... Preview.

Searching through the iPhoto Library via the Finder is dangerous and can easily lead to a corrupted Library. You shouldnt do it. And these guys shouldnt claim to support iPhoto, or any form of Photo tagging.

Their tags are not complaint with Photo standards. They cannot be written to the file on export from iPhoto. The app is unaware of and does not support IPTC standards.

This app may do a lot of things, but it doesnt work natively with iPhoto. It doesnt work with it at all.
(Version 1.2)

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May 24 2009

DOOBIEXX This app is by far the best tagging app. One click and you easily apply tags to anything from websites to finder windows. Not sure about your problem before with iphoto as I don't use it but iphoto has it's own tagging system.... I think if you contact the dev your problems will be fixed. Don't quit on tags!! It's very intuitive and powerful.
(Version 1.2)

HMURCHISON I'll do a full review later when I feel more comfortable about the ins/outs of the app.

I initially thought Tags was too expensive but as a tagging front end and search tool it's simplistic but amazingly powerful. In most apps you just hit the keyboard shortcut and Tags has the item front facing ready to be tagged.

With a Tags front end, Default Folder X with OpenMeta for tagging on Open/Save and the OpenMeta stuff from Ironic Software it's becoming easy to tag and manage tags across your system.

I'm impressed with this app and how it fits into the nextgen metadata workflow in OS X.
(Version 1.2)

FEMIGH I had been looking for an app that would merely tag messages in Mail to compensate for poorly expressed subject headers. Mailtags does the job well, but does too many things. Then along comes Tags with its clean and fast interface for tagging virtually anything, including Mail messages. Glad I waited for it - am well into the evaluation period and very likely to pay the reasonable shareware fee after another week of looking for bugs (none so far). Tags makes creating and assigning (and removing) keywords easy and fast. I think of it as a cross-indexing complement to Spotlight and ABC Launch, especially for databases and spreadsheets that Spotlight cannot reach into. I do not tag a lot of things, but for certain projects the app makes a very good consolidator of different types of files, folders, URLs and email messages. The only thing I could wish for now is an ability to tag individual records within databases and spreadsheets.
(Version 1.1)

JLOIF I got into tagging thanks to this app. The fact that you can tag files directly inside other mac apps is genius.
(Version 1.1)

PIZZACAKE Tags appears to use extended attributes to store tags which is a good thing imho.
(Version 1.1)

HINES2KJ This app is a tagging dream come true.

But, if you finish a document, tag it, then make changes and resave that document, you will lose the tag. It's best to tag only finished documents, files, etc.

The way to delete tags is to select the file that has the tag, bring up Tags dialog and delete the tags in the field where you typed them in the first place.

I hope the developer continues to perfect this app, but the $30 is too steep, more of a $20, MAYBE $25. Had it been $20 I would have bought it toot sweet.

Will wait for a sale.
(Version 1.0)

INGVO 1) Does not show when Mail.app is active (10.5.6 Mail 3.5), 2) Tag Window does not adjust to size, so if you have many tags in one file you do not see them, or if you have files with long filenames, the names are cut. 3) Quick Look does not work like in finder, so one quick look window after the other is opened. What would be great if the quick look window updates when you step with arrow keys through the list of results. 4) cant select more then one file in tag window. 5) Any idea to integrate Tags with Quicksilver?
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 20 2009

INGVO more: the file selected in tag window does not update if one steps through files in the background (command+tab to finder, tag window open)

is it possible to have tags a faceless programme (like quicksilver)
(Version 1.0)

SEMIOTICMONKEY There is no way to delete tags (or edit them).

If i made a mistake how i'm supposed to undo it?

btw. the menubar icon is not consistent. Remove colours from it, please.
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 19 2009

BLODWYN Sure you can. Just highlight the files with the tag you want to edit/delete, bring up the Tags window and delete/edit the tag. You can use a Finder Spotlight search to find the files with the tag you're interested in - search for Tags>Contains>Name-of-Tag (the "Tag" can be found by selecting "Other" and then scrolling down the list to "Tags"). You can select all the files in the search window, bring up the Tags window and edit/delete them all at once.
(Version 1.0)

Jan 19 2009

PETERPAN23 see http://skitch.com/loungehh/bbabj/tagmenubar and download grey menu bar icon ;-)
(Version 1.0)

Jan 20 2009

SEMIOTICMONKEY @BLODWYN

It doesn't work as expected.

Deleted the tag, the file info (comments) show the old tag still.

Selected a file with a tag, you can only delete the wrong tag, not edit it. In no way this application permits tag editing (neverthless there is a 'edit tag' window ?:p ). You have to delete al the wrong tags and start over, hoping all will be ok.

@PETERPAN23

Oh well, i pay 29 buck to change app icon by myself? The dev has to stick with Apple HIG (Human Interface Guidelines).
(Version 1.0)

Jan 20 2009

INGVO

@SEMIOTICMONKEY

||"Deleted the tag, the file info (comments) show the old tag still".

--> this new way of tagging is not happening through the info comment field. it is written into the extended attributes, and that is the great thing. so of course the comment field does not change, if you change the tag.

||Selected a file with a tag, you can only delete the wrong tag, not edit it. In no way this ||application permits tag editing (neverthless there is a 'edit tag' window ?:p ). You have to ||delete al the wrong tags and start over, hoping all will be ok.

if you double cklick on the tag ont the tags field, you can edit it. but you are right, the tag manger should be called tag overview, since one cant really edit tags there (yet???).
(Version 1.0)

Jan 20 2009

BLODWYN @SEMIOTICMONKEY

If you re-read my earlier reply, I gave instructions on how to search for tagged files, which you will note was NOT based on the Spotlight Comment field. The Spotlight Comment field is not used by Tags, and is left unchanged
(Version 1.0)

Jan 20 2009

SEMIOTICMONKEY @BLODWYN

Tnx for your time but the comment field has neverthless tags written with Tags. I don't know why but they are there.

@INGVO

Tnx for the tip. So, finally!, double click on a tag edit it.
(Version 1.0)

Jan 20 2009

DONEBYLEE The info provided about how to remove a tag and/or edit works fine, but it is not listed anywhere on the website or in the help files that I could find.

AND, the method is extremely poorly designed. I should be able to add, edit, manage and remove tags from within Tags itself. I should not have to use Finder/Spotlight to do this.

I would humbly suggest employing a right click (control-click) option or some scheme that allows us to manage our tags completely from within Tags.
(Version 1.0)