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 02
2011

I forget a lot of things. I forget how I did something, or where I found an answer, or where I put my glasses. I use technology to help with that to some extent, and Notational Velocity/nvALT are excellent at helping me find previous notes, assuming I bothered to take them.

I keep a log in VoodooPad, especially when I’m up late enough at my computer that I might not…

Apr 03
2011

I was tooling around the Vim website looking at blogging plugins this morning. I noticed that one of them, Vimpress, had linked to an old project of mine that allowed you to work with Ultimate Tag Warrior tags through XML-RPC. Since the inclusion of tagging support in WordPress, Ultimate Tag Warrior has been defunct, and so have the UTW-RPC plugin and associated AutoTag TextMate bundle.

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…

Feb 22
2011

Nerd post alert. As if you were expecting anything else.

Since posting my latest desktop, I’ve received a few questions about how I keep my Mac’s Desktop icons under control. I thought I’d answer that question before I got around to posting my whole GeekTool setup. Beyond hiding disk icons and making the icons smaller in Finder’s Desktop view settings…

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…

May 11
2010

There are quite a few things I love when it comes to my Mac. I love Spotlight. I love OpenMeta tagging. I love Evernote. I love being able to collect information from any source, and find anything I’ve saved, anywhere, no matter what program I used to create it. I especially love programs that allow me to accomplish that.