Mac OS X Finder as an outliner

[ryanw...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Saw this interesting macosxhint today and thought I'd share:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051128135523956&lsrc=osxh

>From the story:
>So you need the Finder for the project files, and the outliner as a conceptional layer.
> That just didn't feel right. I think the Finder is still the best way to organize files and
> folders for projects. So I just needed some way to store text and multimedia in one
> file inside these project folders ... and there is a somewhat obvious way: .rtfd files.
...
> Now every project folder contains a folder with the cheesy name projectname__ideas.
> I made the name unique with the two underscores. Later you will see why. Inside is
> one (or more) .rtfd file containing notes, tables, bulleted lists, pictures, movies,
> basically all project-related stuff.

I suppose something like this could be useful for @projectname lists?

Interested,
_Ryan Wilcox

[rickla]

Sounds like a good idea. But I feel an OmniOutliner document with the
various related files included, or a VoodooPad page with the files
dragged in (and thus linked) might be more convenient.

[bbaltim...@gmail.com]

Could you post a screenshot with the folder tree expanded so the visual
learners in the audience can get a better idea of how you're doing
this?

thanks,
B.

[jefff]

Anyone interested in thinking about using the Finder as an outliner
should definitely look at Spotmeta, since it will allow you to add any
type of metadata that you want to the files. Kind of like spotlight
comments and tagbag, but you can add typed data like dates and boolean,
etc.