9/13/2023 0 Comments Tagging in eaglefiler![]() ![]() Searching on a file name with spotlight once it’s named as per amberV’s system gets you ‘just the one file’ every time. To feed my deterministic monkey I do make up lists of file names and save them in text files, occasionally. I find that full text search gets me almost as good a result on my own files, but my data sets are not of the size of most researchers. If I were handed a huge pile of unstructured data, that I didn’t create, that I had to make sense of, and then work with, I’d probably reach for DT as my primary tool. Only the organizational information you apply against your data is at risk. With lots of data and a faulty memory this can be valuable.ĭT will also let you index against an independent data set, which satisfies many of my concerns about having data in an app (EagleFiler does also). Their semantic recognition searching finds relationships you might not have anticipated, in this area I find DT to be without peer until you get to institutional strength corporate applications. To druid’s point this is where the black magic of DevonThink really is great. And you find relationships you would never be able to ‘tag’ your way into. Yes, the results list come up with some oddities, but it’s almost always a short enough list to get to the file I want. This so goes against my nature of ‘putting things in their place so they can be found’ but you know, it really works. Through blind faith, and an amberV post, I’ve been relying on full text search a lot. Or marking some Pages or MSWord drafts as ‘#ReviseThisThur’ - very temporary workflow oriented tags.) (My needs tend to be like sticking an OpenMeta tag ‘#ReadNext’ on a bunch of pdfs that are filed away in their home folder. So my needs are well served with Tagger, but I worry from an architectural standpoint. ![]() But I wish I felt better about OpenMeta, there is always the sinking feeling that Apple will pull the rug out one day and all the tags we’ve put on files in that ‘reserved space’ will be washed away. And when DropBox went from 7.x to 8.x forum releases they were syching OpenMeta nicely. They are OpenMeta tagging tools, they are well designed, under active development, and free. The are easy to change, easy to delete, not quite so easy to add if there is no other existing tag, unless you’re a grep wizard, which I’m not.įor non-text files I’ve used Tagger and TagList. So, if I need to (which I’ll say is rare) I’ll add #LitCrit #TNStsg or some other CamelCase thing to the first few lines. I think amberV mentioned it years ago in a post, but I had to figure it out on my own. Somewhere along the line I learned about MassReplaceIt and my fear of tagging in text files disappeared (TextWrangler works well too). I ended up with a bunch of them after exporting data out of Journler (it put a ‘Tag: xxxx’ line in the header of exported files) and I found them annoying because editing them was a process of open file> edit> save file one at a time. Metadata and taggingĪ lot of my work flow is text based (it was once rtfd, then rtf, and if you go way back, doc and whatever AmiPro file extensions were) These days I’m using a lot of in-text hash tags in the text file for sub-characterizations kind of like MMD tagging conventions. I wrote a long reply to a post and thought I’d share parts here. Theres’ a nice chat going on the Scrivener boards about File System Information Managers.
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