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Tagbag is a nice Mac OS X 10.4 Dashboard-Widget that helps you to keep things tidy and get stuff done. One of the proposals for getting things done via Dashboard and Spotlight is to tag your files via the built-in Spotlight-Comment option. This allows to set several tags for every important file you have, and later on you can search for these tags, or simply created searchable folders which consist out of all those files containing special tags.

One could, for example, use the tag '@work' for all work-related stuff and '@holiday' for all holiday-related stuff (i.e. Holiday Pictures, Hotel bookings, Diary, etc).

Tagbag helps you to keep track of which tags you used. It always shows a list of all tags you have been using so far. This makes it easier for you to just use a small but sorted set of tags, without forgetting about which tags you used where. In addition to that it allows you to see a list of all files having a certain tag by simply clicking on the tags name - yeah it's as easy as that.

For a more detailed insight into tagging and a nice automator-action which helps you tagging your files take a look over here.

TAGBAG is and will remain Freeware, use it at your own risk ;) I will continue to work on this Widget and add more features over time (and as time allows). Thanks for your interest!

You can Download Tagbag here.

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I'm currently working on a new version of TagBag which reimplements the whole tag-finding & tag-parsing process in Objective-C using NSMetadataQuery and stuff like that, this should make an end to all kinds of errors which appeared when TagBag was used on a system with too many tagged/commented files. I don't know when it'll be finished though, but expect it within the next weeks.

Contact

Send comments, questions or suggestions to tagbag@stylemac.com or add comments to the box below.

Release History:

13.06.05: 1.25

• Bugfix: @project.task doesn't open as project.@task anymore
• Feature: Clicking on the group opens a Finder window now

03.06.05: 1.20

• Preferences work as they should now
• Enhanced opening Finder Windows. Now clicking on a tag should always open a Finder window
• Added an option to reload the tags everytime Dashboard is shown

28.05.05: 1.10b

• List is sorted alphabeticaly
• Implemented a new CSS-Based Scrollbar (Apple uses the very same one in their Widgets, it feels a lot better to use
• Fixed the bug which didn't open a Finder-Window when clicking a tag on some systems
• Added a preference-key to optionally don't display the @
• Added a preference-key to optionally group items based on the dot-character (design.web, design.print, design.shirts would be grouped by 'design) (only works one level/one dot)
• Added a preference-key to optionally hide the amount of files for each tag
• Seems as if Unicode/Non-Western/Asian Characters work now (at least they work here..)
• Changed some CSS-Settings, the dashed line between tags is gone

20.05.05: 1.02b

• Removed an error which occured when the Widget got installed in /Library instead of ~/Library.
  (the "Object (result of expression t.split) does not allow calls." stuff)

19.05.05: 1.01b

• Added an option which allows to use all comments as tags, not just those with a preceding @

18.05.05: Initial Release 1.0b

Todo List:

• Bug: Several errors in the comment parser, doesn't work really well in conjunction with other non-tagrelated comment data
• Bug: Problems on machines which have too many commented files, way too slow.
• Bug: Files on servers/mounted Volumes are being ignored
• Feature: Make Widget-Size resizable by mouse
• Feature: Add 2. Skin