Tagspaces

Posted by dan7000
Dec 9, 2016 at 07:28 PM

I downloaded and tried tagspaces.

The interface is pretty great. You could use this as your main file browser with a built-in editor for many file types. The basic version only searches filenames, but the pro version also supports full-text search. And in theory, I love the idea of tagging files so I can easily identify files relevant to a particular topic or issue in the future.

But I don’t think I can deal with the tag implementation for tagspaces: it stores all of the tags in the name of the file. So a file name like “moving plan.doc” becomes “moving plan [personal][household][expenses][Fern Street].doc”

You don’t see the tags in the file name when you use the Tagspaces browser, but you do see them anywhere else. I’m not sure why this bugs me so much. Part of it is that you get long, unwieldy filenames. You would also want to rename files before emailing them or sharing them.

Saving the tags in the name has a big advantage, though: the tags are portable across all your devices. If you sync your files with Dropbox, your tags will show up on your phone and your other computers.

Anybody else see other drawbacks of storing the tags in the filename?