Item notes in Spotlight and as tooltips on files
 There are a lot of items within the OS that have associated notes/comments etc., that should be accessible within the Finder, or at the very least within the Spotlight results window, where these sorts of details would be most useful, in helping to locate the file(s) you are looking for.
There are custom file properties that could be very valuable as associative and actionable data, that can add a great deal to the management of your work; as one very simple example, I would like to be able to group/collate all files associated with a particular project in a less fragile way that relying on 'tags' that I add to the Spotlight Comments field, but it certainly a start (esp. when coupled with Address Book groups, Mail Smart folders and subscribed folders.)
The most obvious item to be made mush more visible within the search results are a file's Spotlight Comments, to enable users to easily add annotations to files that are actually useful to their workflow.
Having your own notes easily accessible, e.g. as tooltips within the Finder, would be very useful in browsing through files rather than just by their title, often a severly limited means of distinguishing files.
Some other useful file types with notes/comments from within their owner application include:
- Audio files (ID3 tags)
- iCal events and to dos
- Contacts
- Text Edit doc properties
- QuickTime properties
- iWork file properties
- MS Office file properties
NB: I actually wrote this back in July, so much for checking the drafts folder!
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