Tagging should be robust, simple and smart.
Free and open is always good too!
To tag a file - just drag it onto the Tagit application in the dock. You can also assign ratings. Tagit lets you drag multiple documents to it at once. With multiple documents, Tagit will add tags to all the documents, leaving individual tags on specific documents alone. Which is just what you expect and need. Your most recently set tags are easily added with a single click.
In order to search for documents with a specific tag or rating, simply click on Tagit in the dock. A handy search window helps you pick tags and or a minimum rating to search for. After you use the search feature a few times you can see how easy it is to search for tagged files without even starting Tagit - you simply type a search like 'tag:splash' into the Spotlight search window on your computer.
Tagit is a free application - It will always be free. Tagit uses an open source document management system known as OpenMeta. With OpenMeta, your tagging and rating efforts are backed up as you back up your files. OpenMeta is quickly becoming the standard for document managment on OS X. Deep, and soon the rest of Ironic's products use OpenMeta to store, search and retrive tags, ratings, project names, etc, etc.
Tagit is a useful application on its own. It may be all you need.
But: There are some more powerful tools that Ironic delivers which expand on OpenMeta: Deep, for instance is an image management solution that allows you to search for documents based on size, shape and color palette similarity! Deep uses OpenMeta to store tags, and can deal with all image types stored anywhere on your computer. So our plan is simple - get you hooked on tagging, and then should your needs grow - be there with a strong suite of document managment tools.
1.1 - Changed UI look. Fixed bugs in recent tags shown. Major bug fixed where editing files with Adobe products would sometimes lose tags.
1.1.1 - Added more support for Adobe xattr removing bug, updated to latest OpenMeta code.
1.1.2 - Fixed problem where recent tags were not updated.
1.2.0 - Fixed ratings search on 10.6. Updated tagging for 10.6.
1.2.1 - Fixed small problem with updating tags.
1.2.3 - Added nicer icon, also updated for latest OpenMeta and 10.6 versions.