<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tags (or their predecessors, icon colours) have been around for a very long time, Classic System 7 IIRC, and I consider them old friends.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In principle, I like the idea of giving meaning (in addition to their colour) to them but find their 'shared global scope' a problem in practice. Once a colour, e.g. 'red', has several meanings the primitive UI for organising and applying them becomes fiddly.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I've recently discovered, however, that you can add a 'Tags' optional column to Finder's display (ctl+mouse-down on an existing column heading), which helps me greatly.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I do wish that a 'tool tip' label giving the meaning of the coloured dot would appear when hovering the mouse over the dot(s) in a file-list. For, some reason, this doesn't happen at least on my machine. I should fire up the 'Feedback.app' and suggest this, I suppose....</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->