Nifty Box Universal Binary

Version: 1.1.1 || Release Date: 2007-03-18 || License: Shareware (€ 20) Developer: Tim Scheffler

Nifty Box — tagging for your mac

Access your files and favourite web pages easily by your own defined tags or keywords. Tagging gives you more freedom to organize your mac the way you think.

Just drag & drop an item into Nifty Box and a link is created, that will later locate the item no matter if it is on your local hard-drive, on an external USB drive, on a CD, or if it is a web page.

For each item you can take notes in Nifty Box, for example add a short description of a large text document or the click-able web address of the site you downloaded a file from.

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show_me, 2007-09-09

Nifty Box has a nice clean interface and does a good job in oranizing your files by tagging them. You can also group your tags in folders. The original files are not touched by nifty box. it only writes a comment to your files and stores an alias of the original file to its own database. Because of this it is much faster than K.I.T. and because of the clean interface much more flexible than punakea. That's the PROs. Now the CONs: I don't understand why this program do not use spotlight integration. So you can search in spotlight for keywords you added with nifty box but inside the nifty box inferface you can't search inside the files you tagged. That's a real pity because you have to open each file, when looking for something very special. Another think which can be integrated but insnt' yet: when tagging a file by dragging it into a sub-sub folder, i personally would appreciate to give all categories of the folders to the file. Say my tag is "vacancies" and i have a folder "activities" and a subfolder "2006", i would like if the program would do an autmatic tagging with the words "activities" and "2006". Another feature which would be great would be the following. When placing a file on my destop and tagging it with nifty-box it would be great if nifty-box could move my file automaticlly to a specified folder on my computer (e.g the folder "unread documents" based in my "documents" folder) whereas another document (with the tagging "to do" has to be moved to my "work" folder).
Beside that whishes for future versions: I think nifty-box is one of the best storage managers around. It is a promising start.