app for adding notes / comments to files in finder?

[borelli]

I don't mean tags, but short comments attached visually to files within the Finder? like a sticky note. I have huge image archives, and want to add short comments to certain pics / files, which are visible by an icon as I scroll through.

I'm not after a third-party solution, I prefer to access my images via Finder (which I find the best and least-fuss image browser since Snow Leopard), just wondered if anyone had made such an app?

 

[mysterytramp]

If you go to the Finder, select the folder where you have your images.

Right-click the window and in the pop-up menu, select "Show View Options."

In the windoid, under "Show Columns" select "Comments."

So there's step one, now your comments are visible.

Here's an AppleScript that you can use to set/edit the comments of a number of files:

on open droppedItems
	set numItems to the count of droppedItems
	-- this will handle multiple items
	tell application "Finder"
		repeat with x from 1 to numItems
			repeat 1 times
				set theFile to item x of droppedItems
				set theName to the name of theFile -- this will help user know which file s/he's commenting
				set currentComments to (get comment of theFile)
				set title to "Spotlight Comments of " & quote & theName & quote
				set r to display dialog title default answer currentComments buttons {"Cancel", "Skip", "Change"} default button 3
				set newComments to text returned of r
				if button returned of r is "Change" then
					set comment of theFile to newComments
				else if button returned of r is "Skip" then
					exit repeat
				else
					quit
				end if
			end repeat
		end repeat
	end tell
end open

(This code was started by open0source, which I later modified; from this thread.)

You should save it as an application, and then you can drag and drop files onto the script to set/modify the Spotlight comments.

You could also create a new Service in Automator ... plug this code into a "Run AppleScript" action ... then you can set a command key to it, to give you a more Finder-like experience.

HTH

mt

 

[borelli]

That's really handy thanks for that.

It's not what I was looking for though. I'm looking for something which allows notes to be added, and seen when looking at the images (or other files) in thumbnail icon view. So you can scroll through a whole window full of images and quickly see added comments / notes as you click on them. Perhaps in quicklook, or a hovering window. Almost like stickies for finder.

I have just found an app which does this... but it's awful! 'iconxprit.' Does anyone know of a more mac-like implementation?

 

[mysterytramp]

FWIW, you can have comments appear while in CoverFlow

mt