Apr 23
2012

You know those categories the App Stores use to sort applications by their intended use? You can use those in Spotlight on iOS. Did you know you can do that on your Mac, too? I didn’t, and I didn’t find many references to this on the web, so I’ll share the discovery:

I was thinking about Spotlight on my iPhone and iPad, where I can just type a keyword and see apps that…

Dec 16
2011

Since publishing my first article on tagging and appearing on MacPowerUsers, I’ve been asked many times for more specifics on my tagging system. I’ll start by telling you that I don’t have all of the answers; what I’m sharing here is what I’ve learned after a few years of constant tagging.

Oct 18
2011

I ran into an interesting problem this evening. It actually started a few days ago when I noticed that my qq script wasn’t returning searches within the @(metadata) I set up in the note bodies. I figured I’d come back to it when I had time. Then I got a couple of emails from readers who had also noticed this, so I started digging. It turned out that Spotlight had stopped…

Jun 24
2011

I store all of my writing as separate Markdown files. A basic tagging system adds more “searchability,” and I can quickly locate any file with Spotlight. Given the amount of time I spend in Terminal (well, iTerm 2 these days), I use mdfind quite a bit to do the Spotlight searching. This function just makes it a little more convenient to search for and quickly edit an existing document.

Apr 02
2011

Update [April 3, 2011]: The current version, 1.0.4 at the moment, has bugfixes for running without Tags.app installed, more error handling and a new setting for locations where the date format is dd-mm-yyy. If you had a previous version and run into trouble, please replace the script with the latest and delete your ~/getpinboard.yaml file to regenerate a new one with the additional…

May 25
2010

I’ve taken a little time to improve the script I’d posted previously. It saves bookmarks you add to Delicious as webloc (Safari bookmark) files on your local hard drive, optionally with thumbnails and OpenMeta tags.

First, it adds Spotlight search abilities to your Delicious bookmarks, and, if you use OpenMeta tags, it integrates a tag-based search into any OpenMeta…