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In this post http://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2438&hilit=Mavericks+tags Mr. Noodle asked for reasons to implement dynamic tags.

Here is my use case:

I need to tag files with the name from a sender from mail via Applescript with Hazel as the key enabler. It's works flawlessly with spotlight comments with Hazel. Details can be found here http://www.scrubbs.me/my-notes-blog/2013/5/27/ednu2qjs1h1ebqrjch8xr2mscg6o5n

Consider this a vote for you to implement the same style that you have for spotlight comments

I was looking for the same mechanism too!
it seems hazel supports usage of existing tags but not adding new tags.
i have a similar usecase where i'd like to figure out the applicable tags using an applescript and add those tag/s to the file as part of the rule.
this will make things easy in aligning with the mavericks tagging mechanism.

Thanks for the feedback. raghav: can you provide specifics? As I mentioned before, I need concrete cases.

Yes.
As we've been discussing on the other thread regarding conditional subsort, i am working on automating PDF categorization and sorting using a combination of hazel/applescript and perl.
the script figures out the notional 'category' for a given PDF and returns it in a token. but the problem i see is that i cannot use this token in "apply tags".
my expectation is that hazel would allow me to use custom tokens exported by scripts for tagging. I guess it'd have to validate the contents of token according to the rules set aside by mavericks.

Scrubbs wrote:In this post http://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2438&hilit=Mavericks+tags Mr. Noodle asked for reasons to implement dynamic tags.

Here is my use case:

I need to tag files with the name from a sender from mail via Applescript with Hazel as the key enabler. It's works flawlessly with spotlight comments with Hazel. Details can be found here http://www.scrubbs.me/my-notes-blog/2013/5/27/ednu2qjs1h1ebqrjch8xr2mscg6o5n

Consider this a vote for you to implement the same style that you have for spotlight comments

Thank you for the implementation - it works great for what I need. I wrote up the details here in case anyone wants to adapt although it is pretty straight forward in the implementation.

http://www.scrubbs.me/my-notes-blog/2013/12/23/filing-system-complete-hazel-adds-dynamic-mavericks-tagging

Again - Thanks - I wouldn't be as productive without Hazel. It is a go to program for me!!

Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes it's hard to tell if people are not using a feature or they are using the feature but it works and have no reason to contact me.