FileTags: tag your files for better organization and retreival
Ever since i have been using computers, one problem has been particularly vexing - classifying files for better organization and recall. Currently all systems whether Mac or PCs allow files to be named and classified under directories. However, what if you have files that could be classified under two different directories. For example, i would like to keep all my health care informatics papers in one folder classified by journal name. But i would also like to keep the file in another directory for a specific project. The only way is either duplicate the file in both the directories or to create symbolic links. But what if you wanted to classify the file in many different ways - the above two solutions would become unscalable.
A better way would be to have the ability to “tag” files and folders just as we tag so many social media items on the web. It would be great, if one could just right click a file or folder and add tags to describe its content and then be able to search files through a tag search. Such an application, lets call it FileTag could be very useful in making document organization simpler and scalable.
Update:
Read on the Techcrunch about the Tag Application for the Mac that does something like the imaginary FileTag. Time to go checkout it.
1 comment February 15th, 2009