One of the innovations of the future OS X 10.9 Mavericks steel tags. Although in themselves they are for many has become a familiar thing in the context of working with files on the computer is a very unusual idea. How significantly it can affect our work with computers, reasoned developer and blogger Brett Terspra familiar to readers of Engadget, Joystiq, TUAW and Macworld.
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The next version of OS X will be equipped with a means of tagging files integrated directly in the Finder (As well as in the Save dialog and browser iCloud). In fact, this thing will work similarly to the system OpenMetaWhich uses metadata inside the files themselves. Apple has finally paid attention to this topic, and I'm sure that soon the result of its effort will become very popular.
Disappearing File System
Ordinary Mac user tagging is a novelty, and it will take some time getting used to. However, name tags will significantly alter our understanding of the file system with which we are working on for so many decades.
The main idea of tagging on a computer is that to build relationships (at least with user point of view) the location of your documents, photos and other files will no longer have no value. Apple has long wanted to get away from the idea of folders with deep attachments and familiar file system (in fact, such an idea was born back in the NeXT). Spotlight, Smart Folders and other means of finding files that worked as part of OS X. But I think many Mac users still underestimate these tools, and the situation of affairs Apple plans to change.
Look at iOS. You know, where exactly stored documents created in each application? Probably not, because you do not need to think about it. However, the data structure can be a headache in many iOS-programs. I agree on your iOS device, certainly not as many files as your Mac, but even in a small pile of data to find something specific, especially in different applications is not easy. Tags - one of the pieces of this puzzle.
Good or bad, the appearance sandbox mechanism (sandboxing) and iCloud will lead to the abolition of the directory of our everyday life. Our file system is becoming more and more transparent, as we often reserve Documents in the iCloud-containers, which we ourselves can not be found and which can not be opened from the other programs. They still can work directly (e.g., via Cloud Mate), But soon it will become even more difficult, as Apple will tighten control over the software ecosystem.
The inclusion of "apple" tagging
So why is tagging at the system level so important? Is not it interesting only geeks? Mavericks on the page It is written:
Tags - a powerful new way to organize and find files, including documents stored in iCloud.
Funny, of course, read that the idea of the "new", but Apple tagging sees not only a way to improve the folders - it will make Macy's comfortable, even if theeverything It will be divided and distributed according to the sandbox. This is a universal system that will seamlessly transfer files from one application to another and gives a much more powerful means of organizing data. It's not just a cool feature - a complete solution that will kill us in the familiar model of thinking "in the file-folder."
How to live with it
I'm not against this idea, at least for the moment. I've long since abandoned in favor of catalogs tagging systems. For the separation of contexts, I take a small folder structure, but the links between files are created with the help of tags. A link to all of this is Spotlight. Since in most cases I can quickly search your hard drive to find all files tagged with the "Project X», and then filter them by date, type and content - for I do not need to dig deep in the folder structure or to keep open bunch of Finder windows.
With its system of tagging based on OpenMeta, I quickly stamped in tag files using Tags, Default Folder X, Leap, HoudaSpot and other programs. The beauty of this system - which binds everything together Spotlight - is that I'm not tied to one instrument, and my tags are easily transferred to any other place.
A similar tool allows me to search for the required files, but I can use and "Spotlight", especially since I have already integrated their tags directly in the Finder, and other parts of the system. I can create a smart folder, instead of the usual directory, so that the same file might exist in multiple Smart Folders at the same time without having to create duplicates and labels.
Hopefully soon my favorite tagging tools will be ported and under the Mavericks, but the idea of having the tag support of the system level for me as a balm on the wound. Although no problems, I think, will not do, I hope that Apple will make the whole thing fly at great height.
— Brett Terspra.