Posts Tagged ‘Smart Folder’

No more file chaos with color labels

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

You probably have come across color labels already in Finder. You can use them to assign a background color to a file, so it stands out from the others. This can help you to identify important files at a glance.

Today we will take this concept one step further and create a file and folder based To Do structure using color labels together with Smart Folders.

Ultimately you will get a list of files and folders you still need to work on, grouped by due date in nice, fresh colors.

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Customize your visual web history

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Previously, we looked at how to create a true, visual web history. Today, we will take things one step further, customizing the history to our needs.We added the Safari history folder to the Finder Sidebar, so we could access our web history in a visual way. While this is great and everything, it can quickly get a bit full in there.

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