Note taking software with tags?

February 7, 2006 11:28 AM

I am looking for a note taking software with the ability to tag documents...for mac...

I have tons and tons of fragments (snippets of dialogue, ideas for scripts, blog ideas, art ideas, etc) that I want to organize. Ideally I would keep them all in a sort of "pool" that I can recall as needed. I could tag a piece of dialogue like:

"Someday computers will replace fossil fuels." as: future predictions stoner roomate dialogue computers, etc

If I have all of my notes tagged, then I can just recall them as needed when working on larger projects...

Is there any note taking software forr mac that does this kind of thing well? I could even use something like del.icio.us except for the fact that it truncates the note aking section...

posted by apetpsychic to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Yojimbo?
posted by 31d1 at 11:32 AM on February 7, 2006

I really like VoodooPad, which is a wiki-like notepad program. While it doesn't have tagging, exactly, it does offer a Spotlight plugin and has good internal search. If you could give yourself a convention like leading tags with a special character (! or @ or #), then both VoodooPad's own search and Spotlight would probably work pretty well.

VoodooPad also exports to iPod, HTML, RTF and plain text.
I put together a small droplet that converts VoodooPads to hyperlinked Palm documents, too, so if you're into any of that stuff, it's very flexible.
posted by mph at 11:42 AM on February 7, 2006

I believe Tiddlywiki supports tags, and is perfect for keeping little notes in one place.
posted by frykitty at 12:30 PM on February 7, 2006

I've been looking for something like Tiddlywiki for a long time now... Thanks frykitty...
posted by ThePants at 1:38 PM on February 7, 2006