But worst of all, the search is unintuitive and difficult to use. It's written to operate on every modern platform including mobile, so it's got huge buttons and doesn't excel at anything. The only downside is that I find the TagSpaces user interface to be awkward and cumbersome to use. But I came to realize its strength - the tags are always attached to the file, no alternate streams, no database, works with any file system. At first, I was repelled by this idea, I couldn't imagine browsing for and maintaining files with very long filenames.
In search of a replacement, I stumbled upon TagSpaces which employs a very different technique, it embeds the tags in the filename. In 2016, Taggtool went to a browser-based system that requires a Java-based server running on your local network. I continued to use Taggtool for several years. It made me realize how well thought out and executed tag2find had been. It had a poorly executed tag cloud that just wasn't up to par. It was written in Java, I presume to make it portable, so it had a somewhat alien look and feel that I found a bit clumsy. Taggtool worked similarly to tag2find (I'm unsure if it used alternate streams), but its user interface was less well done than tag2find. One downside was that if you copied a file to a non-NTFS drive, e.g., FAT32 (USB drives) or Linux server, the alternate streams are lost.Īfter my good experience with tag2find, I found a suitable replacement in Taggtool. I would still be using this tool had it been maintained for modern operating systems. It employed a tag cloud as the search mechanism which worked beautifully. tag2find used NTFS alternate streams and a database to keep track of the tags for each file. Of those, tag2find was the superior tool, however, it's no longer maintained and when I switched to 64-bit Windows, it would no longer run. Around 2009 I started using tag2find, then in 2013, I migrated to Taggtool. Previously, I had used dedicated tag manager software. I've been using Everything as a tag manager for my Visio drawings for a few weeks. I found a similar request in the forum here:įirst, a little background. This is a feature request to add a "Tag Cloud" as an alternative search method. Hello, this is my first post to this forum.
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