These are my links for November 14th through November 18th:
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Ⅰ am slowly coming back from my vacation – today with a link to the Housekeeping blog.
Sidenotes:
- Ⅰ have been bookmarking quite a bit without posting any noteworthy links to the blog, but if anyone is interested: del.icio.us has the links.
- Ⅰ am no longer posting directly to delicious – but to spurl, as it keeps a cached copy of web pages around (which you can also update and keep versions of it), but it also does the job of posting to delicous for me so Ⅰ have a backup as well as a way to browse the bookmarks much more comfortable than on spurl. The two things on spurl Ⅰ miss are a. easier tagging (like in the delicious popup) and b. better browsing of bookmarks, my own and those tagged by others.
As Ⅰ have written previously Ⅰ would love to have some way of tagging functionality in iTunes.
Right now my setting looks a bit like this:
- Ⅰ use the „Grouping“ field for my tags. The tags Ⅰ am currently using are things like „slow fox“ or „rumba“ as Ⅰ am currently cataloging my collection of ballroom dance music. But Ⅰ will be using tags like „electro“ or „typical latino“ or whatever to actually describe the styles of the songs – just to get much better and faster search functionality when Ⅰ really need to find some music that is similar, e.g. when Ⅰ am preparing music to play at a dancesport competition.
- There are some cool apple scripts out that allow adding and deleting single tags from the fields „grouping“ or „comments“. The scripts Ⅰ use are really useful, but far from really what Ⅰ want (see below). Nevertheless – they are pretty close in functionality and the only thing that is out there (yet.)
What Ⅰ really would like:
- A posting interface like the experimental posting popup from del.icio.us. The features Ⅰ want are:
- simple tag creation. just type the tag into some form field and it is created
- re-use of old tags. show a list of tags that Ⅰ have used before, and make them clickable!
- make the selected tags stand out from the list so Ⅰ can de-select them again!
- Some additional features for the interface:
- Give me the choice to group tags. e.g. „Dance“ (would group Waltz, Cha-cha, Salsa). This way Ⅰ can easily select tags that are sorted in categories.
- Give me the choice to rename tags easily.
- Some other stuff Ⅰ would love to do with these tags:
- playlist creation based on tags – easy, fast and useful – a „there is no step 3″-approach.
- find similarities based on tags, make music recommendations, hey, make shuffle take into account music similarity and/or diversity! (How about a setting that goes like: shuffle my music, make 5 songs similar then completely switch to a different style and do another 5 songs!)
Head over to terhech.de and grab the TafBag, a Dashboard widget that lets you access your spotlight-tagged files and folders. Flickr for Finder, yeah.
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