[selowitch]

Like probably most users, I have two folder hierarchies that are pretty long and complex: a) the folders are under my /Users/my_username/Documents directory and b) the folders in Firefox that I use to hold my bookmarks (I use the Foxmarks extension to keep my bookmarks in sync no matter whether I'm using my iBook or my iMac -- sweet!).

The thing I've noticed, over time, is that because I sort both bookmarks and documents by category (e.g., Bills, Work, Movies, Blogs, Photography, Music, et al.), the folder structure tends to be very similar. So I wonder if there's a good way to integrate the two, so I need only maintain a single set of folders. Maybe there's a way to start tagging folders in one's Documents directory -- that would be intriguing.

I seem to remember this being done in the pre-OS X days by having some sort of document that when clicked sent you to a particular page (memory a bit fuzzy here -- Cyberdog, perhaps?), but this seems a bit clumsy and hard to organize. I really like the concept in Firefox of tagging, because that allows a given bookmarks to be assigned to multiple categories at once without creating a duplicate.

Any thoughts on this?

[zro]

Drag the favicon into the Finder. This will create a .webloc file that can be opened from the Finder. Also, you can use the Finder's comments as a way to tag files.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by zro 

Drag the favicon into the Finder. This will create a .webloc file that can be opened from the Finder. Also, you can use the Finder's comments as a way to tag files.

Good idea. But bookmarks saved in that way won't sync via Foxmarks, so I'll have to solve that problem separately.