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Dan,

Tagit supports two word tags - just start a two word tag with a quote character: typing
"New York" with the quotes will make single tag.

I use the app Leap, via the App Store, and find it to be great!

Theres is an app called Tags that has more features and uses OpenMeta just like Tagit.

Been using "Tags" from Caseapps for about a year. Works great. I don't know if Tagit is better or cheaper, but I'll stay with Tags.

* I need to look more into the "openMeta" dealie - how does that work?

* do these utilities generate tags that the other apps & utilities can read? Can spotlight (and houdah) read them? Or do they only create tags that are proprietary to themselves, ie, only the program that created them can read them - I find most tagging programs to be the latter, unfortunately, which means that they're not very useful.

* but am curious - is there a universal standard of tagging somewhere? too bad it's not built into OS X.

will

I've used TagIt a lot the last couple of years, but there is a drawback. When files are stored on a non-Apple network, such as Windows, the tags are not gone, but you can't find the files anymore. The same goes for NAS drives. Why this is, I don't know. It's not a TagIt issue though, it has something to do with the way OpenMeta saves the tags. Ask the friendly guys from TagIt, they can explain it in detail to you.
As long as you tag files that are stored on your Mac, you can search for them using TagIt. And that works like a charm.
When you store most of your files on a NAS or Fileserver, look into Adobe's XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform). With XMP the metadata (tags are metadata) is stored IN the file itself, without corrupting or altering the file's content. It's the same metadata you'll find in Adobe Lightroom en Adobe Bridge.
It is not very well suited for fast tagging of files, in which TagIt is King, but XMP tagged files are recognized by a lot of applications on different OS's, not only Adobe's.

 Willfriedwald, on 02 August 2012 - 05:44 AM, said:

Certainly agree that OS X should have built-in tagging. That's the flaw that OpenMeta is designed to address. A number of popular apps now support it, including the (to me) indispensable MailTags and Default Folder X. Also the great search tool HoudahSpot, the popular DevonThink, and several apps from Ironic Software, the original creators of OpenMeta.
Full list of supporting apps here: http://code.google.c...etaApplications

 RobLewis, on 02 August 2012 - 07:17 AM, said:

Thanks for the useful summary, Rob, info that seems pretty indispensable to understanding the product under review.

 Bartleby45, on 02 August 2012 - 04:22 AM, said:

Can't get any cheaper; there is no cost for Tagit.

Openmeta tags are read in with spotlight. In fact Tagit's search engine is really just a call to the Finder to do a specific spotlight search. There are solid handful of apps that use openmeta tagging - hardly any (or none?) that don't. --Tom

XMP tags work only on a few document types. Openmeta can tag anything, stores tags in extended attributes and is a Mac only system.