November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 146 | Find Files by Tagging Them |
Every single Mac file can be tagged, which will help Spotlight prioritize the files should you search for them. Tags are simply memorable words that are invisibly attached to the file (technically speaking, they’re stored as metadata). For example, suppose some friends send you a photograph of them. You can tag the file with their names so that at a later point you can find the photo by simply typing their names as a search term within Spotlight.
Folders can be tagged too, but this isn’t recursive—applying a tag to a folder won’t apply it to the files it contains.
To tag a file or folder, first select it; then hit Command+I to open the info window. Under the Spotlight Comments ...
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