June 17th, 2008
Tagging My Local Files
One of my favourite things about "web 2.0" is the extensive use of tagging to help define an object. Tags on files and tags on people help me find things so much easier than "searching".
A week or so ago, I had a very embarrassing moment where I was trying to find a file on my hard drive that I knew was there, but I fumbled around for 10 minutes to find it! I keep thinking "What directory did I put it in? What is it named? When was it created?" Who cares!!! I knew what it was about, who the author was, and the content of some of the slides. I should have been able to find it easily. The irony is, I knew exactly where it was stored on-line!
So this weekend I Twittered about this pain, and many people responded to me with some options. Go social networking!
At the moment I am trying a program called tag2find on my Windows laptop. Volker provided me some great looking alternatives for Mac: Tagbot, Punakea, Leap, Nifty-Box.
What I really wish I had was a full off-line repository, which synched with my on-line storage, and shared the tags. I sense an opportunity for a future version of Quickr.
