commandline frontend

Anybody else who would like to have this? Ain't a big thing to write this, perhaps somebody else wants to do this? Should be pretty easy to write using the NNTagging.framework - otherwise if more people want this, I'll add it to our todo list. Speak Up! :)

Want it. Need it. Now.

:-)

Yes, that would be nice, especially to script tagging in a more automated way.

I would also like to see this option. I am starting to look at ThisService and OnMyCommand to allow a more extensive incorporation of Punakea into my workflow, and it seems like a CLI would make that much easier.

Along similar lines...would it be possible for those of us, who don't want to use commandline but need the functionality to include a button that triggers for example the "mdimoprt" command? Papers does that to get around the tag problems that Apple seems unable to solve. This would be VERY helpful. Papers places it under "Preferences" - I assume, this could be done if some form of commandline frontend would be included into Punakea?

The problem with Punakea is this: Punakea doesn't know which files you tagged -- Papers does. Punakea only knows this if you let it manage your files, and as far as we have seen, there are a lot of people who don't do that. So even if we kept a database with tagged files, it would get out of sync pretty easily when you move your files around.
The whole idea behind Punakea was that it schouldn't restrict the way you handle your files in any other way, so we rely on Spotlight completely for finding tagged files -- and if Spotlight doesn't find the files, there is no way to reindex tagged files except by tagging the whole disk.
We really really _really_ hope Apple will fix this!