Great app guys!
I have bin hunting for a suite of apps to organize some 250 GB of files for 2 businesses and personal stuff.
Suffice to say regular Hierarchical folder structure is not enough nor is normal searching ;)
I have also tried Tagbot and MetaTag but prefer Punakea on many points. However I'm concerned with the comment field. Is there a way to let punakea work more along the lines of @ or & which Leap and the other tag apps use?
How do you look on tag or the comment field interchangeability on your future updates? (I hope you will continue of course and am gladly willing to donate the equivalent of the cost of the other apps if you stay in business with this great style!)
I use Hazel to automatically name, move, copy and assign tags based on some rules. It adds the standard & prefix to the comment field.
This does that i cannot then use the search and more fine tagging strengths of Punakea, which is too bad...My idea is to autotag a large amount of files by Hazel or Leap as I sort and rename. Then use P to search and add and fine tune tags. The interface is great and fast.
And then basically work onwards w Punakea from there ;) It would be a dream to be able to quickly add and search by keystrokes like with QS on the fly while working. It seems Punakea can be able to do this. Then basically the speed of the brains flexibility would become reality but with improved reliability and stability in search results of course ;)
I also love the create aliases which completely blows me away!
It completes the best way of file and database organizing as seen in recent studies of information manageent.
Apparently the best way of structuring filesystems is by using Hierachical folder sturcture combined with Faceting and Tagging. With these 3 systems anything can be found with the flexible and fast way our brain actually works.
You can either find a way by remembering the folder structure (which contains important attributes for us to quickly find relevant files as we dont know what were looking for exactly but knowing its in here somewhere) or you can wildly search by tagging not caring where the files reside or by narrowing to faceted attributes. the best is to combine those 3 but this isnt yet widespread among apps. With Punakea now there is a choice of using 2,5 of these 3 systems. Taxonomy by tags, folders structure ny tags and regular folder structure and the light faceting by indicating which tags are most used or recently used and ranked.
So please let me know your plans on "your baby" so I can adjust the rest of my info flow to be able to fully use Punakea with coherent tag structure in the comment fields for example.
Great work again with this app!
Its always interesting to get feedback on how you all organize your files and manage work flow if anyone cares to describe their apps and integration...
Regards /Dom