There are no partitions or file paths like Windows. Even though you can see the Mac’s default system folders in the sidebar of the Access window: Files, movies, music, images, downloads… But if work and study materials are mixed up with documents, videos, and photos, the classification may seem a little too rough.

The Mac’s tag feature is designed to solve this problem

In the same [visit] sidebar, if you look down, you will see various colors of [labels], for example, I like to start from ordinary life scene, the label is divided into two big: public and private, work and private life separate. Along with the red label renamed “important”, urgent personal and work items can be superimposed with the red label and solved by unlabeling at will.

With access preferences, you can set, add, delete, and customize your tags.

Everything can be marked on a Mac.

Temporary pile of learning materials in the work of the desktop, select right 】 【 label, not the folder, pictures, GIF dynamic figure, PS project file can be classified, wait to clean up the desktop right check – use stacked 】 【 】 【 stacked grouping 】 – “label”, effortless, take time to identify, instantaneous arrange to receive.

Whether it ends up in access’s default system folder or is uploaded to iCloud, the TAB feature allows you to quickly find and locate your location.

You can even categorize apps, such as the evil Nail, which can be labeled as work without having to search through pages of apps to avoid missing them. Of course, this is an extreme example, because it’s only used for work. Most apps have a wide range of applications, and you can also open them quickly with the Mac’s focus search and default shortcut keys Command and space.

Unlike Windows folder dolls, the design concept of Mac more hope you jump a disk, folder, use “label” to customize your own sorting documents, “label” is not a copy of the source file, and is not the same as the color of the folder, it gave me the feeling is more like a “if no necessary, not by entity”, The form is recognizable without changing the substance.

Everyone can have a different imagination according to their own needs.

If you are doing a big project, you will read dozens of literature, read the death course PPT, add a “read label”, more intuitive understanding of the progress;

Or, after A trip with friends A, B, C, from hundreds of photos, to select each of them, the honest way to do it is to create 3 new folders, drag photos to enter. But with the [mark], you only need to mark when reviewing, and the shortcut key [Control-1 ~ 7], and finally unified air delivery, or one-key packaging and sending can be.

Maybe there’s another way to play with tags — inspired by the Asana collaborative office software used inside Topbook, there’s a View mode called Board View, kanban mode, which you see in a lot of administrative tools, where you can mark files according to their usage status. Not start-to do-do-done.

Although in actual use, all the documents can not follow a project flow, such as surfing the sand sculpture emoji package saved, it is difficult to define its use status, you may never use it, or the next second to use the group diagram.

But if you’re working on a topic for six months, or if you’re working on concurrent projects for a long period of time, this is a great way to do project-based learning and work.

Similarly, the four-quadrant law can provide a labeling idea. With the “urgent” and “important” tags, you can combine four document states: important and urgent, important but not urgent, not urgent but not important, urgent but not important, and neither important nor urgent.

In fact, I used the label “important” in my previous application, and the reason I didn’t add “urgent” was that the combination of “red” and “important” was enough to make my brain feel urgent.

So, you see, the use of tags can be DIY, there is no set routine, everything starts with yourself, you can embed existing classification methods, build their most commonly used classification logic, temporary added tags, used up, if not necessary, do not add entities.