Your app just looks great: easy, clean, very appealing. It's like fresh air on my desktop. Everything cries: "fun!"Â. Congratulations.
The corresponding website is also a beauty. Maybe you shouldn't start your overview with tagging bookmarks - that's a secondary feature in my opinion. Support couldn't be better. I like your forum with rss feed. All in all, a great introduction.
My only problem with your app is that its use is very limited. The "Tagger"Â is good for batch-tagging: you start with a bundle of files, drag them into the window, type in some tags, and all of the files get the same tags. Good if you want that.
The sidebar is kind of a short-cut: drag a single file onto a tag and let loose. Or drag several files. But here's where the limitations begin: the sidebar only shows the recent 8 tags and the 8 most popular tags. There's no way to change that. What if you have several hundred tags? The sidebar is only a short-term memory addition for the "Tagger". What about the long-term memory? (Answer: you can drag a "tag"Â from the Browser window into the Tagger window, or when you type a tag, there's that auto-completion function. But you still have to type a lot and you have to get along with two windows.)
And what if you want to add several tags to a file, let's say eight because that's the maximum. Draging the same file eight times to the sidebar is kind of slow and annoying, isn't it?
It depends on what you are looking for. Your app is good for batch-tagging some few files with some few tags. But my starting point would be different. I want to tag several hundred unsorted files in a single folder. I can't batch-tag them. I would want to tag them because that's a way of sorting them without moving them into different folders. And by tagging I can sort them in a non-hierarchical way, as you describe on your website: the same file can have several tags (it couldn't be placed in several folders at the same time). For that task I have posted a feature request ("Tripane Tagger").
Batch-tagging vs. Sorting by tagging
Submitted by noribori on December 1, 2006 - 19:04.
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Hm, I think you may be
Hm, I think you may be right, starting with bookmarks might be a bit misleading. Will have to change that :)
About the rest: The first implementation of the tagger only put the tags on selected files in the list, but we thought this might not be obvious enough for every user, so we changed that to the way it is currently handled. But we tried to make it comfortable by allowing multiple tagger windows openend at the same time.
As I said in my reply in the support forum, we definitely have to improve a lot (also the sidebar). But we wanted to have some feedback before spending too much time developing, so of course there are still some rought edges.
About the amount of tags you can add to a file: there is no maximum, just the sidebar has this maximum, as 8 tags was a compromise between visibility and amount.
Thanks for your long post! :)
I found it odd that you can
I found it odd that you can select files but the tags are applied to all files (of course, the selection is only meant for deleting a file from the list, but that's also not very obvious).
And only showing the common tags is also obscure. Maybe you got that from iTunes, but there you get an "information for several titles", and you can't add another title. If you add some tags with the Punakea Tagger and add another file without a tag or with another tag, all tags disappear (because there are no common tags). It's hard to understand and it's also hard to find out which file has which tags without the possibility to see the tags of selected files.
I prefer the first way, respecting the selection, and I hope you rethink that after inplementing a"different color for not common tags" feature.
We ourselves were a bit
We ourselves were a bit uncomfortable with this, but we had to compromise a bit for our first release. This will definitely be improved!