My system keeps changing, but at the moment... Folders - I maintain very broad categories of folder, which are really only used for the drop box panel. They correspond to the answer to the question "why am I storing this?" Is it for future reference, research material to be examined later, a random thought I've had myself, or an asset that I am trying to create for use elsewhere (e.g. a piece of documentation)? Sometimes if I'm doing an awful lot of dragging and dropping from Safari I'll set up a temporary folder for a project, but I'll tag the contents and delete the folder afterwards.
Tags - most of the classification is done with tags. Material for an individual project is defined by a combination of one or more tags, and for all of the current ones, there's a tag folder, prefixed by "." so that they all go to the top of the list. I used to file projects in folders, but when you delete a folder you can never find out what was in it again, and I can never tell when I might need to look at an old project once more. (I find it useful to maintain a list of the tags that get applied to individual projects - I've been experimenting with prefixing all "project code" tags with "p.", but it's not proved worth it yet.) Oh, there are also tag folders for "todo" and "idea", though I do most of my task management with Todoist or Taskpaper. "todo" tagged items are usually reference data which won't fit anywhere else. Flags - a flagged item is just one I can get to with the "Flagged Items" list. It doesn't mean anything more than "I use this a lot" or "I should pay attention to this" - if I findmyself looking for that item a lot, I'll flag it, if I find I'm not, I'll remove the flag. Labels - I don't really use these a lot except as decoration. There may be a good way to use them - they've got the advantage of being very visually distinctive - but if there is one I don't know what it is. Also, they're a bit hard to export if it ever comes down to that. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <yojimbo-talk@barebones.com>. To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/yojimbotalk.lasso> Have a feature request, or not sure if the software's working correctly? Please send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
