by Mavericks’s Finder tags feature gives you the ability to assign labels and keywords to your files and folders, which is a mighty fine thing if you’re organizationally inclined. However, regardless of how keen you are on the idea of tagging your files, the process requires time and effort, particularly if you intend to tag the nearly countless files already on your Mac.
That doesn’t mean that Finder tags should become Mavericks’s “Mission Control”—a feature that can be helpful, but that few people touch. Rather, tagging requires a measure of will and some tools and techniques to make it as easy as possible. Let’s begin.
Use Smart Folders to find old files worth tagging
If you have thousands of files on your Mac and the idea of tagging them all makes you queasy, take a deep breath. You just need to be a little smarter about the task. Focus only on those files that really matter, because you want to more easily retrieve them at a later time. Smart folders can help you find the content you’re after.
If you have thousands of files on your Mac and the idea of tagging them all makes you queasy, take a deep breath. You just need to be a little smarter about the task.
In the Finder, choose File > New Smart Folder. In the resulting window, click the plus-sign (+) button next to the Save button near the top of the window. This creates your first condition. How you configure that condition depends on the kind of content you seek. You can, for example, specify a file type, documents that contain certain words, files created on a specific day or within a period of time, or files you’ve placed in a particular location.
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