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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 → [...]
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 [...]
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.
When you download or create a new file, you will probably want to tag it. And to tag it, you have to right-click it in the file manager (e.g. File Explorer). But locating the file in the file manager is annoying and distracts you from your work. For this reason, when a new file is created, Tabbles displays a popup [...]
Discover the power of automatic tagging. You can tell Tabbles things like “when I put a file in this folder" or "if a file contains this word" or "if it contains a social security number", then "give it this tag”. The first is useful if you have an existing folder hierarchy, or if you are naming your files in a [...]