Add comments to files
You can add comments to files, along with your colleagues - and your comments will look like a chat! Check our blog post here.
February 2018
Explorer integration: overlay icons and context menu
In Windows File Explorer, you can tell tagged files at a glance, because they have a Tabbles logo. If you right-click a file in Windows File Explorer, you can quickly tag the file from there, without need to open a Tabbles window.
Share tagging: create the tag hierarchy once and make it available to every user
When you are administering a Tabbles network with many users, you want to spare your users the burden of creating tags, and putting them in a hierarchy. With Tabbles, the administrator can do all the work. He can create a hierarchy of tabbles and share it with all (or some) users. Ordinary users will see the tag hierarchy and will [...]
Share tagging and collaborate with other people.
You can see tags created by other people; you can see files tagged by your colleagues. (Of course, you can only see those things if the tag owner has shared the tags with you.) This can be scaled to handle hundreds of interconnected machines and users: someone can tag a file on one machine, and other people on other machines [...]
Do not lose tags if files are moved with Explorer
When you move a file with Windows File Explorer, Tabbles detects that and updates its internal database with the new path of the file. As a result, when you find the file with Tabbles, Tabbles will still be able to open it. The same happens when you rename files with Explorer.
Find the same file through multiple mental paths
Suppose you are looking for a file whose physical path (disk and folder) you do not remember. Tabbles allows you to find the file through the mental path that is more congenial and natural to you. For example, “pictures → birthday → with-friends → with-good-quality → taken-in-2012”. The same file might also be found by following a different mental path, such as “pictures → [...]
Preserve tags when Office documents are sent and received by email
Suppose you are collaborating with someone outside the Tabbles network. You send a tagged document to him by email; he modifies the document and sends it back to you by email (or by Dropbox, or in general from the internet). In this case, the new document that you receive will have preserved the tags of the original. i.e. you won’t [...]
Search for files in any file system (NTFS, FAT32, EXT4…)
Some file-searching tools, or file indexers, only allow you to search in some specific file-systems, like NTFS. Others won’t search in network drives. With Tabbles, you are not tied to a specific file system or drive kind.
“Combine” tags to search for files dynamically
Very often, when you are looking for some file, just opening a tag is not enough: there will be too many files in that tag, and it won’t be easy to find what you are looking for. What you want is to combine tags, i.e. say things like “Show the files that are pictures AND are about Mary AND are [...]
Productivity: tag files via keyboard using auto-completion
Tagging a file with Tabbles is even easier than putting a file in a folder. You can do it in multiple ways: all with mouse clicks, by drag-and-drop, or by typing the tag names with text auto-completion. And you can sort tags in many ways, e.g. by tree or by recent usage.