Tag your Mac OS X Address Book entries: “Use the Mac OS X Address book to tag your friends. Create a custom relationship field of ‘tag’, and then fill in whatever tags you want to use to describe them. This is simpler in many ways than creating a sea of categories to put people into, especially when you really just need something ad hoc for the duration of a project. You'll be able to launch Spotlight searches from the tag, and of course Spotlight will pick up entries with that tag when you search.”

I'm beginning to wonder whether the answer to my earlier rant lies in a paradigm shift in the way that interact with the Finder. Hmmm. Interesting.