Find files faster with Finder tags
HOW TO DO ANYTHING ON YOUR MAC, iPHONE & iPAD
Benefit from more orderly organization for everything on your Mac
REQUIRES OS X 10.9 or later
YOU WILL LEARN How to add, edit and remove file tags in Finder
IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes
AS SOON AS you start building a collection of files on your computer, you run into the problem of organization. Sure, you can divide things into folders and endless subfolders, but shouldn’t there be a quicker, more visual way to find what you want?
As it turns out, there is. Tags, a built–in feature in macOS, lets you add small colored dots to your files in Finder. They give you an instantly recognizable way to organize items, add labels, and then locate them with just a click.