Customizable “Manage Files” feature

Note: This post was inspired by a reply to another topic under the Support forum, which I posted here.

Automatic file management is awesome, and I wish more apps used it. I always enable it in iTunes, for example.

However, letting iTunes manage files is safe because it's only dealing with audio*, and the managed files live in the user's ~/Music folder.

(*NOTE: iTunes manages non-audio files as well. I do have an issue with iTunes putting non-audio files under ~/Music. But if I might ask a favor, please humor me for the purposes of this post! :-)

Punakea manages everything from Documents to Bookmarks to anything else the user tags. It would be nice if I could tell Punakea to manage all Documents in a folder of my choosing—say, ~/Documents/Punakea. (That way, I can still manually organize what I want under ~/Documents without potential conflicts with Punakea, since it has its own folder.)

Ideally I could do the same for Bookmarks, Images, and other filetypes—allowing Punakea to manage them, but in different locations of my choosing based on their filetype.

Alternatively, in my original post, I suggested one possible Preferences setup:

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1. Manage all files with the following criteria…
   • [ Choose file extensions… ]
   • [ Choose tags… ]
   • [ Choose Spotlight Comments… ]
   • [ Choose Finder Labels… ] (wow, Labels could actually be useful!)
   • [ Choose other… ]
2. …in the following Folder [ Choose… ]

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Again, I love allowing apps to manage files for me. To me, it's the next logical evolution in Human-Computer-Interaction and Usability. But until I can put different types of files into different places, I won't use “Manage Files”.

Thanks!