Don’t let the name put you off. WebNoteHappy is a nice app for collecting, organising, tagging and sharing your bookmarks.

Smart folders, tags, integration with del.icio.us, global hotkeys and bookmarklets give the app substantial grunt.

It is also browser-independent, which is a boon for people who like or have to switch between browsers.

For Mail.app fans the initial version presented a problem. Its global hotkey (Command-Shift-D) conflicted with Mail’s inbuilt Send Message shortcut.

That has now been fixed; the hotkey is now only enabled for Camino, Firefox, NetNewsWire, OmniWeb, and Safari.

Other improvements, including private saving of bookmarks to del.icio.us, and fixes are detailed in the release notes .

WebNoteHappy is shareware (USD 24.95) and a 30 day demo is available from the developer’s web site .bookmarks, tagging, organizing, delicious, multi broswer, mail.app, apple mail, productivity

Described by the developers as “iPhoto for PDFs”, kip offers tagging, sorting, searching and syncing with iDisk for your PDFs. Its scanning features also promise a way to centralise and organise all those bills, receipts, reports, and other bits of paper laying around the house.

Screenshots and more on kip’s features after the jump.

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Ethan Kaplan, the Director of Technology for Warner Brothers Records, has been experiencing tagging meltdown.

He has a good tagging system in place using the MailTags plugin , but under an avalanche of email, it breaks down.

He has an idea though:

So what would make me use MailTags again (because it is indeed useful)? Mailtags needs to add the ability to tag as a “tab” sequence. Basically: command-N (new), subject – tab – message – tab – tags – shift-command-D to send. That would rock.

Scott Morrison, the developer of MailTags, agrees .mailtags, tagging, metadata, workflow, productivity, apple mail, mail.app, plugins

Now that MailTags 1.2.1 is out , Scott Morrison has begun work on improvements and features for the next version.

These things are too interesting to keep to one’s self, so here is a teaser of what is still to come…

Listview enhancements

The next version of MailTags will allow you the option of displaying your metadata in the Message Listview window. Here it is – live and real – in Scott’s own inbox:

Click on the image for a full-sized view

IMAP support

Up until now, MailTags has stored its metadata in the local IMAP cache at the end of each message’s individual emlx file like this:

(Here you can see a message which among other things belongs to my “Hawk Wings” MailTags project).

Unfortunately, this data was only readable on one Mac.

Scott is working on a method for storing the metadata (encoded in base64) in an X-Header on the server itself, so that the information will be readable by any Mac (with MailTags installed) which connects to your IMAP account.

This is how it looks when you display an email’s headers (View > Message > Long headers):

The method that Scott is using may also allow you to enclose tags (at your discretion) when sending email to others and be able to accept the tags that are enclosed in email you receive.

In addition, Scott is working on something inspired by Boris Anthony’s ideas for an iCal-Mail.app mash-up and which will be well worth waiting for.

This continued development of MailTags outmatches any mail management system/enhancement at any price. The USD 20 suggested donation is outstanding when you think of what you get.

If you have been holding off your support of MailTags, now is the time to encourage its future development.IMAP support, mailtags, listview, projects, keywords, ical, plugins, metadata, tagging

Ever wondered what the “Categories: Xxxxx” entries in the Notes field of your Address Book are and where they came from?

Christopher Breen describes at MacWorld’s 911 blog how they result from importing the contacts, either from your own Address Book or someone else’s.

He also points out that you can use the Notes field as a quick and dirty way to “tag” your contacts. By adding more specific information than Address Book’s other fields allow, you can then construct Smart Groups that will match on those keywords.

His drag ‘n’ drop trick will cleverly tag multiple contacts in this way at the same time.address book, contacts, categories, notes field, keywords, tagging, tips

Scott Morrison has released an update to the latest version of MailTags.

MailTags 1.2.1 offers a number of small tweaks to the initial release. Mail.app preferences now close correctly when MailTags is installed and the default Calendar preference now sticks persistently.

The installer now installs the Spotlight plugin correctly and removing attachments from messages no longer deletes tags.

Most significantly, it begins to add support for IMAP accounts. In this release, rebuilding IMAP mailboxes now preserves tags (making it safe to use tags for locally stored IMAP messages). Full IMAP support is not far away and will be a feature of MailTags 1.3.

The French, German and Japanese localisations have been improved.

MailTags is donation-ware (suggestion: USD 20) and is available from Scott’s web site .mailtags, mail.app, apple mail, plugins, tagging, ical, to dos, IMAP, lip-smacking plugin goodness, productivity