Onlife is a strange little application that logs your use of your mac, archives what you do and so on. Ⅰ don’t know if this is good, privacy issues are important as well – but journalling and log keeping is good, too.
Now if it would be more useful and could track more apps – it might even be useful for tracking client’s projects and billing etc.
Gotta watch its progress and applicability.
Wikipedia may help with getting your music collection organized. Although Ⅰ still think the „Genre“ Tag in MP3s is useless in its current incarnation. What use makes it when you can browse music by genre but then try to classify not in broad genres but in much detail? So my solution is to use the general broad genre and then fine tune by using the“ grouping“ tag.
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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