cocoaforge

I'd like to set things up so that any time I open a file with non-empty spotlight comments, growl would post a notice of what those comments were. I see this as a great way of encouraging me to keep my comment data current on files I'm using, and also to provide helpful reminders about the status of documents, their purpose and so on. Unfortunately, I haven't got a clue about how to set something like this up, so I'm hoping for ideas. If this isn't something that can be done with growl as-is, please consider this a feature request.

Thanks,
Gwyd

a folder action is probably your best bet.

Folder actions respond to opening, closing, adding or removing files to folders. The feature I'm interested in would instead initiate an action any time a file was accessed, independent of whether I change its location or not.

Other ideas?

Write an app that monitors fs_usage.

Honestly, this sounds really bad. Your screen will fill with notifications in seconds.