{"id":116,"date":"2007-10-18T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/leopard-hasnt-even-shipped-yet-and-i-am-already-mad\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:29:32","slug":"leopard-hasnt-even-shipped-yet-and-i-am-already-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/leopard-hasnt-even-shipped-yet-and-i-am-already-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard hasn&#8217;t even shipped yet, and I am already mad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsoftware.com\/leap\/index.html\">Leap<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2007\/10\/18\/leap\/\">TUAW<\/a> today.    I&#8217;ve been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsoftware.com\/yep\/index.html\">Yep<\/a> because I collect PDF&#8217;s like candy, and it&#8217;s just getting a little out of hand.  So the idea of a &#8220;tagging Finder&#8221; sounded pretty good to me.   I installed the demo and briefly played with it.   It relies heavily on Spotlight for finding the files and for doing things like excluding directories &#8212; I had to exclude a bunch of files in ~\/Library\/Application Support, for example.   My big question was whether or not Leap tapped into Spotlight facilities for storing additional metadata.   Before firing off a message to the authors, I dropped into the Google Group for Leap, and a little poking around produce this message <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/leapformac\/browse_frm\/thread\/688c03025f8905cd\">thread<\/a>.   Unfortunately, the upshot is that even in Leopard there is not system level support for user defined metadata on files, despite the proliferation of third party tagging solutions.   I&#8217;ve avoided looking at those solutions because  I was expecting to see major improvements in Spotlight in Leopard, but it looks like that is not to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found Leap via TUAW today. I&#8217;ve been watching Yep because I collect PDF&#8217;s like candy, and it&#8217;s just getting a little out of hand. So the idea of a &#8220;tagging Finder&#8221; sounded pretty good to me. I installed the demo and briefly played with it. It relies heavily on Spotlight for finding the files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,143],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phUVc-1S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}