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I want native tagging. When you save a file it should give you the option to add a searchable tag. This is much easier and more efficient than creating a folder hierarchy for everything and then constantly navigating through it. And i want the tags to be independent of the filename.

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You want Mac OS 9 or earlier. :-) Well, maybe not quite. You could attach text comments to a file, but I can't remember if the comments were searchable. And before OS 8 or so, the comments disappeared whenever you decided to "rebuild the Desktop." You could assign a searchable, color-coded category to a file, but you were limited to one category per file and something like six or eight categories altogether. Still, though, the earlier Mac OSs were very handy (except for the crashing...)

Leopard is almost there, with Spotlight comments you can tag really easily but it's not [yet] part of the save routine. I don't use comments too often though since the fulltext search is good enough for my uses.

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