Thanks for your answers!
Ok, I'll try to be clearer as I have played around w Hazel a bit more;
I'm trying to address the problem of a huge file amount from both ends it would seem:
A) I want Hazel to ad a tag to a file as soon as i put it in a collection folder (i.e Inbox). The tag should be the first part of the file name (date or whatever) which helps me to initially assign a file to an area that I'm dealing with.
B) Then I need Hazel to move that same file based on the Tag it previously acquiered to a folder with the name that corresponds to the tag. I'll name the folders to correspond to the tags of course.
C) I will then add more specific tags using Leap and Tagbot on a more individual level to be able to search in a more efficient way.
D) finally I then use Hazel to monitor the amount of files within folders, move after given rules and label according to dates and other goodies of course.
But that is jut to facilitate visual order of the files and not necessarily help find them easier (talking about 200+ files /folder with specific tags (@energy @constructing @illumination @ project X) and some 100+ folders
Since I have 200+ GB of files to keep in a way that the information IS USEFUL I cannot ONLY use folder structure. Nor do regular searches perform well since they yield too many result hits.
Tags are the only way of coming up with a decent number of hits of a related topic where ever the information may be.
So it's a mix of Hierarchy and Tagsonomi that I want Hazel to help me with basically
(among other fun stuff)
I of course tried DevontThink Pro and other database apps but haven't found them to comply in my liking with a huge database and my purposes.
Here is a grid that I follow and that should be of interest when dealing with searching and organizing files structures and information managemet.
HIERARCHIES FACETED SYSTEMS TAGSONOMIES
SCOPE GOOD* MEDIOCRE POOR
GUIDED NAVIGATION EXCELLENT* MEDIOCRE POOR
FLEXIBILITY POOR EXCELLENT EXCELLENT
STORING SEMANTICS POOR EXCELLENT MEDIOCRE
EASE OF USE POOR MEDIOCRE EXCELLENT
Sorry for the elongated answer but I wanted the purpose to be clear to avoid my obvious shortcomings in the use of Hazel.
I'm always interested in opinions on how to best manage information if anyone is intersted in all that...
/Dom