Tag your Mac OS X Address Book entries
Use the Mac OS X Address book to tag your friends. Create a custom relationship field of "tag", and then fill in whatever tags you want to use to describe them. This is simpler in many ways than creating a sea of categories to put people into, especially when you really just need something ad hoc for the duration of a project. You'll be able to launch Spotlight searches from the tag, and of course Spotlight will pick up entries with that tag when you search.
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That's neat, thanks for this.
One downside: at least with my version of Address Book (4.0.3: v483), a smart group created in Address Book can't search on the relationship field. It's OK if your tag doesn't appear as a string in the other fields (then you can do a "Card contains" search) but if not, you're stuck if you want to collect together all and only the cards that contain that tag.
Posted by: Greg Restall | February 16, 2006 at 02:00 AM