Keyword Assistant 1.9.3 review

Keyword Assistant is an iPhoto plugin to make keyword management quicker and easier.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 791K Developer: Ken Ferry Price: $0.00 Updated: 29 Sep 2006

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Keyword Assistant is an iPhoto plugin to make keyword management quicker and easier. It adds a panel with an auto-completing text field for entering keywords.

This makes it realistic to keep and assign large numbers of keywords, for example one for every person in a photograph. That's a good thing because it makes searching for a photograph pretty easy.

Keyword Assistant is currently localized for English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.

Here are some key features of "Keyword Assistant":
Assign, create, and remove comma-separated lists of keywords
Completion on existing keywords
Optional completion on names from Address Book
Drop-down of all completions by pressing F5 or option-escape (These are cocoa standard keyboard shortcuts, try them in TextEdit.)
Completions are prioritized by most recent use. This helps when tagging a series of related photographs.
Keyword creation is transparent - just assign something that doesn't exist yet. KA can optionally warn you.
Tab and shift-tab move among keywords to be assigned. KA adds a comma if you tab past the last keyword.
Hold option to remove instead of assign.
Manage the keywords list (Keywords panel in iPhoto 4, Keywords preference pane in iPhoto 5)
Alphabetize list via menu item
Type-select to locate keywords
Click in the list and type a few characters. The first keyword containing the characters as a substring is selected.
^?? and ^?™ select next and previous matches.
KA inserts new keywords alphabetically or at the end of the list, according to preference.
Automate
Command "ka new keyword" creates new keywords from AppleScript (iPhoto has no native mechanism).

Requirements:
iPhoto 4.0.3 - iPhoto 6.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.7.