You see, now that you’ve helped me fix a problem, I’m obliged to start blogging again. See how the LazyWeb extracts its pound of flesh?
Does Tiger’s Spotlight search the comment field of files in the “Get Info” dialog box? No, no, don’t tell me, I know you’d be breaking an NDA.
But here’s what I’d do, if I’d paid the $500 to Apple for the Tiger starter kit. I’d write a little mini-application (or maybe a QuickSilver plugin), that would let you select a bunch of files in the Finder, and then add a simple line of text to all of their comment fields. Another keyboard shortcut would let you easily delete one of these lines from a selected file. Another would quickly select all the files that contained that line – or, shall we say, tag in the current folder.
And then, whenever I needed to find all my files tagged with, say, “oblomovka”, I’d just type into Spotlight. Actually, that highlights one of the problems with this – maybe they need to be prefixed with something, so you’d search for “tag-oblomovka” rather than the very common term.
It’s a bit of a hack, but it would give you folksonomies for the Desktop. (Unless that’s already in Tiger, of course.)