New Feature: Smart Folders
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Ok, so in iTunes, we have all of our songs in a database. These songs have various information tagged on them, such as artist, genre, etceteras. We can also create a playlist, and add the songs we want to that playlist. Furthermore, we can now create smart playlists, and have the playlist find the songs that fit the criteria.
What if we could take that to the finder, and have Smart Folders. Permit me to explain.
I keep all of my clients in a folder called, "Turbo Projects". It's really one giant listing of folders, each named after one of my active clients. These projects span web, print, broadcast, etceteras. In Mac OS 9 I used labels to quickly distinguish between them all. The problem is some clients are a combination of mediums.
So what if I had, say, three folders in my dock, each named after one of the aforementioned mediums: Web, Print, Broadcast. I then told each of those folders to find client folders flagged, or labeled, as being in one of those mediums.
Ok, so admittedly, it sounded a bit cooler when I had first conceived of it....
Ok, so in iTunes, we have all of our songs in a database. These songs have various information tagged on them, such as artist, genre, etceteras. We can also create a playlist, and add the songs we want to that playlist. Furthermore, we can now create smart playlists, and have the playlist find the songs that fit the criteria.
What if we could take that to the finder, and have Smart Folders. Permit me to explain.
I keep all of my clients in a folder called, "Turbo Projects". It's really one giant listing of folders, each named after one of my active clients. These projects span web, print, broadcast, etceteras. In Mac OS 9 I used labels to quickly distinguish between them all. The problem is some clients are a combination of mediums.
So what if I had, say, three folders in my dock, each named after one of the aforementioned mediums: Web, Print, Broadcast. I then told each of those folders to find client folders flagged, or labeled, as being in one of those mediums.
Ok, so admittedly, it sounded a bit cooler when I had first conceived of it....
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Here are some places where it has been discussed to one degree or another:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...=smart+folders
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...=smart+folders
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...s&pagenumber=2
(PS: looking back through some of these threads, it's amazing how Panther addresses so many ideas and requests people put together -- encryption on the fly, new open/save dialogs, live filtering/search, multiple window management, better location functionality, etc.)
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I say they will be.
Originally posted by Chris Cuilla
Who says "Smart Folders" won't be in Panther?
I say they will be.
I'd love to be optimistic too, but I doubt we'll see any major new features in Panther that haven't already been demonstrated.
Originally posted by Anders
Who IS this LoCash? Typical newbie behaviour not to see if it has been discussed before
Ok, Brad, I told you nobody here knows who I am!
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Originally posted by Big Mac
I'd love to be optimistic too, but I doubt we'll see any major new features in Panther that haven't already been demonstrated.
Except that Steve alreayd said there were somthing like "100 new features" in Panther and "I want to show you a few of them today."
So I am optimistic that we'll see more features when it actually rolls out. I am not certain they'll all be the things we want. :-)
Smart Folders seem logical to me. Better FTP support in the Finder also seems logical. Built in zip/unzip would be really nice. Windoze has this, though it is terribly implemented (as usual).
That's three features right there.
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I don't think there will be lots of additional features we haven't seen but I bet the Finder / Dock will have some other major improvement we haven't been told about. Piles, LoCash's Funky Folder Fountain, or something. Maybe even something to do with Ink / handwriting recognition or speech recognition. Who knows. But I bet it's there, waiting to be sprung on us.
Originally posted by Moogs
... LoCash's Funky Folder Fountain...
Oh my god! That totally has to be the name of something...
but doesn't this kind of already happen with the recent documents feature of the apple menu...is that not a kind of 'smart folder' that groups alll the last opened document?
My point: if so, it's not a new feature merely one that needs to be implemented/turned on.
Originally posted by valmad
Funky Folder Fountain, future feature finaly found. For full finder function, F4 finds "folder funtain" favorites. ( Frogsh!t, Features frozen )
Fruity forum freak finds fantastic folder feature funny. Figures.