More Metadata Adventures in Tiger


I created my first Smart Folder in Finder. I noticed when selecting what metadata fields to search on there were (besides all the photography ones) things like Project. I would love to be able to tag each file with what project it relates to. How do I add this to an arbitrary file, though?

And how do I add this to an email message? Not that it matters because Smart Folders in Finder seem to exclude searching email or vCards.

If I create a Smart Folder with something like Kind = Any and Author = James Tauber as the query and then go to Get Info on the folder, it shows the query as:

(kMDItemAuthors = 'James Tauber'cd) && (kMDItemContentType != com.apple.mail.emlx) && (kMDItemContentType != public.vcard)

So let me get this right: Kind = Any means any but email and vCards.

Interestingly, though, the query found Powerpoint presentations and Word docs even though I don't have either app installed at the moment.