A 'Get info' comment is just a different way to get (meta)information from your file. Labels, on the other hand, are no more (or less) than quick, visual references.
Comments can be visual references too, in List view. However, I spend 99% of my time in Column view now, sooo...
Comments will be much more useful to me once I have Spotlight in my grubby little paws. Of course, that means I have to comment all those files that don't have appropriate metadata...
I just had a look, and I'm really surprised that comments don't appear in the preview in column mode. Isn't that almost the perfect place to be showing them???
My students email me their essays to comment on. Sometimes, I get 10-20 in a couple of days, and it can be a pain to keep track of which ones I've already commented on.
I mark the ones I haven't commented on in red, the ones I am commenting on in orange, and the ones I have finished with in green.
I also use labels to mark the various genres of movies on my hard drive.
I never understood the use of labels until I started using them to mark my students' essays, though.
Where did you find the weapon of mass destruction in Dick Cheney?s pants?
The story runs that Cheney went to some place to have custard (I believe). Some reporter from somewhere like Minnesota snapped that picture, but refused to run it because, well, it was pretty revealing.
Wonkette had the story originally, I think.
Anyway. I think that picture lets us know just why Cheney has heart problems. All his blood's going somewhere else.
I haven't used them yet, finding folders an easier way to organize my files. If nothing else it's a habit from my Windows days. Either way, I'm coming up on a few projects in which I must retain the folder heirarchy I've set, and in the future will definintely need to keep track of what files I have and have no editted. When the day comes that I do take this plunge--it'll be sometime in the next month or so--I imagine it'll help a lot. Other than that, though, I'll probably stick with folders. Then again, as I said, I've never used labels, so maybe I'll change my mind after using them.
i tried to use labels, but there are a few items apple MUST do to improve them for better acceptance:
- use the full power of the apple color picker to make labels. colors, transparency, etc. the colors, for me, are WAY too vibrant and distracting, especially in list view with lots labeled.
- get rid of the gradient, except MAYBE on desktop icons. it's there just for show, but, again, is really difficult to read against in long lists.
- add an option to JUST label the name. enormous long color bands are, again, very distracting. or they could color the info items, such as date modifieds, names, sizes, etc., and leave the white space in between. though i haven't mocked this up, so it might actually make the window look even more messy.
- trim down the "curve" of the ends. get back to a rounded rectangle look, as opposed to the elongated pill they currently resemble (this would also minimize the scalloped bumpiness of the sides of long lists in a window.
yes, mac os x labels are better ooking than os 9 ones, but c'mon, that's not saying much ("oh, what a lovely icon.. left me give it a pink color cast...")
How about having the *option* of putting an (very little) icon IN the label ? Just a simple one, an exclamation mark, questionmark, a (delete)cross, a skull, whatever ...
It would give you extra visual information of your files in a blink. You can't un-notice that red labelled skull folder, do you
How about having the *option* of putting an (very little) icon IN the label ? Just a simple one, an exclamation mark, questionmark, a (delete)cross, a skull, whatever ...
It would give you extra visual information of your files in a blink. You can't un-notice that red labelled skull folder, do you
well, i always thought having a few custom badges might not be a bad thing. the only problem area you run into is when an icon has too many badges, alerts, etc plastered all over it to make sense of what it was supposed to be in the first place.
How about having the *option* of putting an (very little) icon IN the label ? Just a simple one, an exclamation mark, questionmark, a (delete)cross, a skull, whatever ...
It would give you extra visual information of your files in a blink. You can't un-notice that red labelled skull folder, do you
Imagine a folder with tons of badged labeled files, what a bloody mess...
Well, a folder with say 20 files, 2 or 3 files are labeled, - purpose fullfilled.
when Im sorting huge amounts of data, I use labels like crazy. Before I had to make sub folders, etc. Pain in the arse. Now, my pron collection is neatly organized
well, i always thought having a few custom badges might not be a bad thing. the only problem area you run into is when an icon has too many badges, alerts, etc plastered all over it to make sense of what it was supposed to be in the first place.
Are we talking about something like the red icon that appears on the Mail icon in your dock when you have new email? If so, then that sounds really cool. If not, then I'm proposing it now. :P
Are we talking about something like the red icon that appears on the Mail icon in your dock when you have new email? If so, then that sounds really cool. If not, then I'm proposing it now. :P
well, the idea is evolving. Actually, i like your idea.
Ditto. Besides a few icons, numbers (Latin numbers ? or a letter ?) would be a good idea. Ofcourse you can put a number in the name of the file, but that's not always possible or a good idea.
Extra visual distinction always comes handy to keep my gazillion files organized.
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Originally posted by BigBlue
A 'Get info' comment is just a different way to get (meta)information from your file. Labels, on the other hand, are no more (or less) than quick, visual references.
Comments can be visual references too, in List view. However, I spend 99% of my time in Column view now, sooo...
Comments will be much more useful to me once I have Spotlight in my grubby little paws. Of course, that means I have to comment all those files that don't have appropriate metadata...
Weird. 10.4 maybe, huh?
Neil
a.k.a. Arnel
I mark the ones I haven't commented on in red, the ones I am commenting on in orange, and the ones I have finished with in green.
I also use labels to mark the various genres of movies on my hard drive.
I never understood the use of labels until I started using them to mark my students' essays, though.
Originally posted by midwinter
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Originally posted by Vox Barbara
The story runs that Cheney went to some place to have custard (I believe). Some reporter from somewhere like Minnesota snapped that picture, but refused to run it because, well, it was pretty revealing.
Wonkette had the story originally, I think.
Anyway. I think that picture lets us know just why Cheney has heart problems. All his blood's going somewhere else.
Originally posted by midwinter
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Anyway. I think that picture lets us know just why Cheney has heart problems. All his blood's going somewhere else.
That would explain something, anyway.
- Xidius
- use the full power of the apple color picker to make labels. colors, transparency, etc. the colors, for me, are WAY too vibrant and distracting, especially in list view with lots labeled.
- get rid of the gradient, except MAYBE on desktop icons. it's there just for show, but, again, is really difficult to read against in long lists.
- add an option to JUST label the name. enormous long color bands are, again, very distracting. or they could color the info items, such as date modifieds, names, sizes, etc., and leave the white space in between. though i haven't mocked this up, so it might actually make the window look even more messy.
- trim down the "curve" of the ends. get back to a rounded rectangle look, as opposed to the elongated pill they currently resemble (this would also minimize the scalloped bumpiness of the sides of long lists in a window.
yes, mac os x labels are better ooking than os 9 ones, but c'mon, that's not saying much ("oh, what a lovely icon.. left me give it a pink color cast...")
It would give you extra visual information of your files in a blink. You can't un-notice that red labelled skull folder, do you
Originally posted by BigBlue
How about having the *option* of putting an (very little) icon IN the label ? Just a simple one, an exclamation mark, questionmark, a (delete)cross, a skull, whatever ...
It would give you extra visual information of your files in a blink. You can't un-notice that red labelled skull folder, do you
well, i always thought having a few custom badges might not be a bad thing. the only problem area you run into is when an icon has too many badges, alerts, etc plastered all over it to make sense of what it was supposed to be in the first place.
Originally posted by BigBlue
How about having the *option* of putting an (very little) icon IN the label ? Just a simple one, an exclamation mark, questionmark, a (delete)cross, a skull, whatever ...
It would give you extra visual information of your files in a blink. You can't un-notice that red labelled skull folder, do you
Imagine a folder with tons of badged labeled files, what a bloody mess...
Well, a folder with say 20 files, 2 or 3 files are labeled, - purpose fullfilled.
My 2 cents
when Im sorting huge amounts of data, I use labels like crazy. Before I had to make sub folders, etc. Pain in the arse. Now, my pron collection is neatly organized
Originally posted by rok
well, i always thought having a few custom badges might not be a bad thing. the only problem area you run into is when an icon has too many badges, alerts, etc plastered all over it to make sense of what it was supposed to be in the first place.
Are we talking about something like the red icon that appears on the Mail icon in your dock when you have new email? If so, then that sounds really cool. If not, then I'm proposing it now. :P
Originally posted by Purgatory
Are we talking about something like the red icon that appears on the Mail icon in your dock when you have new email? If so, then that sounds really cool. If not, then I'm proposing it now. :P
well, the idea is evolving.
Extra visual distinction always comes handy to keep my gazillion files organized.