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TagFlow is a file manager that allows you to organize, search, and share your files with intelligent and structured tags. Its objective is to help users organize and then search for their files. For that, we use the power of tags. TagFlow is a file manager that allows you to organize, search, and share your files with intelligent and structured tags. Its objective is to help users organize and then search for their files.
Open and Extensible
The source code of the TagSpaces core is open source, published under the AGPL license. The application is designed to be easily extended with different extensions for visualization of directory structures or for opening of different file types. Most of the these extensions are published under the MIT open source license.
Intuitive and ease to use
TagSpaces offers you a convenient user interface to your local files and folders on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. It is implemented using modern web technologies like JavaScript and HTML5. Since version 3 the application provides a dark mode.
Privacy by design
Keep full control of your files! TagSpaces is running completely offline on your computer or smartphone and does not require internet connection or online registration. It is up to you to decide if and with which tools (e.g. Nextcloud, Dropbox, Syncthing) you can sync your tagged files across different computers.
Tag and annotate files and folders
- Organize your photos, documents, music, recipes or invoices with tags in the same way on all platforms.
- TagSpaces features basic file management operations, so it can be used as simple file manager.
- You can assign custom color to every folder and tag, which makes the visual search an easy step.
- You can add a custom thumbnail and text description to every file or folder.
- In contrary to the most file tagging applications, TagSpaces does not persists the tags in a centralized way. As a consequence, the added meta information is not vendor locked.
Taking notes in plain files
- TagSpaces products can be used as alternative for Evernote's note taking and web scrapping functionalities.
- You can create and edit notes in plain text, markdown or HTML file formats.
- You can create To-Do lists and organize them in a kind of offline personal wiki for tracking your projects, ideas or memories.
Digital Assets Management
- Browse and preview your virtual library in one application.
- Preview your digital photos and images, open PDF documents and collected web pages.
- Listen your music and show your videos.
- Organize your e-book library.
- The list of the supported files formats is growing.
Use TagSpaces Pro as a front-end for AWS S3 buckets
- Browse, preview, tag and search files located on AWS S3 compatible buckets.
- Edit files located in the cloud, directly in TagSpaces, without downloading and re-uploading them.
- Upload new files to the AWS S3 with simple drag and drop actions.
- Create your own Dropbox or Evernote like services only by using AWS S3 for hosting your files.
Place every file or folder on a map
- Place any file or folder on a map
- Annotate maps with files
- Save favorite places, privately
- Plan trips and places to visit
- Extract geo coordinates from EXIF data embedded in JPGs
Collect online content locally
- We are offering Chrome and Firefox browser extensions for web clipping.
- Saving whole web pages or only part of them, allowing you to use the application similar to the many 'read in later' services.
- Take a screenshot from the visible part of the webpage or create a bookmark to it. This, together with the tagging support allows you to use TagSpaces as a full fledged bookmark manager.
Key Features
Easy File & Folder Tagging
The application supports adding tags with drag and drop to files and folders, in a transparent, not vendor locking way.
Learn more about working with tagsTag library with colored tags
You can organize your tags thematically in groups, for example the tag group 'family' can contain tags with the names of your family member, useful for photo tagging. In addition you can assign different color to your tags.
Learn more about the tag libraryDesktop Search
The application support searching for files in your current location. It can be searched explicitly for a given tag or a combination of tags (all tags, any of the tags or excluding a specific tag).
Learn more about searchingUser Interface Themes
Currently TagSpaces supports a light and a dark theme, which can be switched with one click.
Learn more about dark modeFile and Folder Management
TagSpaces features a set of basic file and folder management operations such as create, rename, move and delete.
Learn more about file managementGo further with extensions
The application can be extended with additional viewers and editors for different file types and perspectives for visualizing of folder structures.
Learn more about extensionsOur Products
suitable for novice users
- Tag File and folder
- Generate thumbnails for photos
- Basic file management
- Take notes as files
- Preview and print files
- Basic Search
- Dark mode
- Web Clipper
by offering additional features
- Add description to files and folders
- Add background color to folders
- Connect AWS S3 buckets as locations
- Generate persistent thumbnails
- Monitor changes in your local files
- Add geo-tags and place files on map
- View your photo in a gallery mode
- Advanced and full text search
- On-premises wep application
- PWA mobile app
- White-label custom packages
- Custom file viewers
- Custom perspectives
- Priority technical support
What people are saying
If you need an alternative to Evernote, check out tagspaces http://t.co/YUhRvssn4X (Open source, no cloud, dropbox/etc support)
— Jürgen Geuter (@tante) January 10, 2015Tagflowlayout
@tagspaces - finally, a simple elegant cross-platform file tagging solution.
— Jeff Beam (@threecleartones) 22. Oktober 2017I'm switching from Evernote to @tagspaces + @ownCloud so my data is stored in my own machine.
— Nacho Amelivia (@namelivia) November 20, 2014Since seeing the STACK of journals and binders I need to scan and thus discovering TagSpaces, I am reluctantly admitting that maybe digitizing all my notes for my book may not be the most horrible idea in the world. Very reluctantly.
— Vixoen 🦋 (@Vixoen) October 21, 2020Tag Flower
@tagspaces Thanks a lot for the development of tagspaces. I am really glad with this piece of software.
— Joep Hein (@joephein) December 11, 2016Was really trying to find open way of 'doing' Evernote with filesystem. Almost thought of writing my own. Think I've found it: @tagspaces
— Trystan Negus (@trystann) February 2, 2015Wow. Just found out about the TagSpaces. Very cool stuff - Evernote, bye-bye and thanks for your continued support on Linux/Chrome platforms
— Daniel Vladušič (@dvladar) January 9, 2015Definitely. TagSpaces also supports storing metadata in per-directory hidden folders, which is probably the best way to go.
— ∰ Jesse (@holocronweaver) 27. August 2017Help us change the way the world is organizing files. Spread the word!
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TagFlow is a file manager that allows you to organize, search, and share your files with intelligent and structured tags. Its objective is to help users organize and then search for their files. For that, we use the power of tags:
- When you add files: the system already assign certain tags based on file characteristics (document type, creation date, etc.), but also depending on the files you've already sorted on TagFlow. You can specify the classification of your files if necessary.
- To find a file: just searching for one or two keywords defining research. A proposal of suitable tags help you for the research. To narrow the search, the system automatically suggests tags based on your classification and your search habits.
To discover the way we use tags, you should read our getting started guide / tutorial.
Note that TagFlow as a local file manager based on tags is (and will stay) free forever ! In the future, some features like backup on the cloud, multiplatform synchronization and sharing should be proposed with a pay subscription.
Note that TagFlow is in early-stage development (beta), which means that you may encounter some bugs, that the current features are bound to be improved and new ones will be added later on.