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Nifty Box

Nifty Box - 1.2.1

file & web organizer using tags

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Current Version: 1.2.1
Release Date: 2008-08-07
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 618
Downloads (all versions): 4,198
Price: $24.95

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Product Description:

Nifty Box is your personal library: Keep web bookmarks, classify pictures, and annotate documents. Organize your files with tags and let Nifty Box show you related information. Browse your library and find without searching.

Nifty Box offers the visualization of tag clouds in a hierarchical tree view. You can easily group related tags into folders very similar to the familiar handling of playlists and folders in iTunes. Nifty Box can show these tags either as traditional lists or as tag clouds.

Nifty Box is tightly integrated with the Mac system by exporting tags and notes to Spotlight. This way Spotlight can read your tags and smart folders get even smarter. Now you can add descriptive keywords to your web bookmarks, photos, PDFs, or any other file type just by drag & drop. Spotlight will find the items based on your custom metadata.

What's new in this version:

There has been a nasty bug in version 1.2 that would sometimes cause Nifty Box on Leopard to use 100% CPU time after closing a window, but leaving Nifty Box running. This has been due to a bug in a NSObject category I implemented for dealing with delayed messages. For all those not interested in the details: The bug has been fixed and using the new version is recommended.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later

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Nifty Box CommentaryHas anyone compared it to Yojimbo? - Version: 1.0.1, 11/13/2006 11:26AM PST

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Nifty Box Reviewpromising - Version: 0.9, 8/5/2006 10:51AM PST

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ccahua
I'm testing Nifty Box (NB) which lives on my Dock. It is a great start. The concept is that aliases can be created, tagged and searched within a single application. It would be a great supplement to the wonderful Notational Velocity which only deals in text.
I've tested DevonThinkPro and I think NB is a great light alternative. I had some size/overhead and tag/search issues with DTP that lead me to search for alternatives and luckily NB might fit the bill.
I can drag documents to NB and tag them without using using Quicksilver to Spotlight tag individual files. I like Nifty Box because all of your tagged files can be viewed in one window. Dragging files to other tags appends those tags to the file. This is great. Unfortunately there is no current means of manually editing the tags in the item detail view. One suggestion would be to have a open field like Delicious where tags can be entered or deleted. As it stands in NB beta, tags can be removed but not added in the item detail view. There appears only one Library group that contains all the aliases but I suspect other groupings can be created in the future so you can classify your content by tag and grouping. One thing I'd like to see is some visualization feature like KIP or a tag cloud view in adjunct to the linear tag count drawer- just another way to view the data; some AI to the organization.
I still have the tagbag widget installed in case NB doesn't work out. I look forward to what the pay version offers and hope the price is reasonable because NB is a great concept in the already crowded and sometimes bloated Mac notebook market.
Best,
tony
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