Since i had to compile this for my own needs,
i thought to share it also for some other’s benefit.

As criteria for the inclusion/selection
i have taken “tags” to mean,

1.) the ability to make & assign UNLIMITED

KEYWORDS aka. LABELS aka. CATEGORIES aka. METADATA aka. FIELDS aka. ATTRIBUTES.


2.) the ability to then comfortably AUTOMATIC FILTER
ones entire database to one or more such terms assigned.


3.) with “advanced” to mean, to have one or more of the abilities for:

- hierarchical tags / tag groups

- bulk tag assigning / changing

- bulk tag import / export

- automatic tagging

- tag clouds

- tag suggestions

- tag typing completion / from menu selection

@So =here #we go!



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ADVANCED Tagging System
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WINDOWS
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Task Unifier Pro (http://www.taskunifier.com/pages/pro

Evernote (http://evernote.com/

CintaNotes (http://cintanotes.com/

My Life Organized (http://www.mylifeorganized.net/

Connected Text (http://www.connectedtext.com/

RightNote (http://bauerapps.com/

TreeDBNotes (http://www.mytreedb.com

AML Pages (http://www.amlpages.com/

MyInfo (http://www.milenix.com

Memomaster (english, http://www.jbsoftware.org german, http://www.jbsoftware.de/memomaster

Ultra Recall Pro (http://www.kinook.com/UltraRecall

Zoot (http://www.zootsoftware.com

Infoqube (http://www.infoqube.biz

InfoSelect (http://www.miclog.com

myBase (http://www.wjjsoft.com/mybase_screenshots.html

TreePad Business Edition (http://www.treepad.com/treepadbiz

TreeProjects (http://personaldatabase.org/

RedNotebook (http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/index.html

Taglocity for Outlook (http://www.taglocity.com/

ClearContext for Outlook (https://www.clearcontext.com/pro/

Personal Knowbase (http://www.bitsmithsoft.com/





MAC
————-

Evernote (http://evernote.com/

Tinderbox (http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

Curio (http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/

DevonThink Pro (http://blog.devontechnologies.com/2008/08/tuesday-tip-using-devonthink-pro-as-a-web-browser/

Together 3 (http://reinventedsoftware.com/together/

OmniOutliner (http://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner/

Circus Ponies Notebook (http://www.circusponies.com/




LINUX
————-

Task Unifier Pro (http://www.taskunifier.com/pages/pro




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BASIC Tagging System
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WINDOWS
——————-

EssentialPIM Pro (http://www.essentialpim.com

TodoList (http://www.abstractspoon.com

ResophNotes (http://www.resoph.com

Notezilla (http://www.conceptworld.com/Notezilla

Total Organizer (http://www.konradp.com/products/organizer/

TreeLine (http://treeline.bellz.org/scrnsht.html

GoldenSection Notes (http://www.tgslabs.com/en/gsnotes/

MyNotesKeeper (http://mynoteskeeper.com/

Techno Notes Manager (http://www.technonotes.com/

StudyBudy (http://www.sbuddy.co.uk/

Incollector (http://www.incollector.devnull.pl/

NoteMaster (http://www.computtrax.com/notemaster/en/index.html

VIP Task Manager Professional (http://www.taskmanagementsoft.com/products/taskmanagerpro/

ListPro (http://www.iliumsoft.com/listpro/windows

SmartDiary (http://www.sdiary.com

TaskMerlin (http://www.taskmerlin.com/compare.aspx

VueMinder Ultimate (http://www.vueminder.com/products/vueminder/help/contacteditor.html#Custom_Data

Desktop TODO (http://www.desktoptodo.com/p/features.html

Conqu (http://conqu.com/

Data Guardian (http://www.koingosw.com/products/dataguardian.php

Data Recall (http://www.ignyte.com/product-data-recall-infokeep.html

Symphytum (http://giowisys.com/products/symphytum

WowBase (http://softconstructors.com/en/applications/wowbase/index.html

Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/tour/

NoteExpress 2 (http://www.noteexpress.net

TheBrain (http://www.thebrain.com/products/thebrain/download/

Xmind (http://www.xmind.net/features/

Tobu (http://tobu.lightbird.net/

Scrivener (http://www.literatureandlatte.com

Swift To-Do List Ultimate (http://www.dextronet.com/swift-to-do-list-software

Agenda At Once (http://www.agendaatonce.com/

TaskAngel (http://www.mypocketsoft.com/taskangel/default.aspx

uTodo & uOrganized (http://www.veetosoft.com/

ActionOutline (http://www.actionoutline.com/

AceText (http://www.acetext.com/

Microsoft OneNote (http://www.onenote.com/

MindRaider (http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/

NoteCase Pro (http://www.virtual-sky.com/

Noteliner (http://www.noteliner.org/i/Main.html

NotesBrowser (http://www.notesbrowser.com/en/screenshots_notesbrowser.html

Outline 4D (http://www.screenplay.com/p-77-outline-4d.aspx

SurfuLater (http://www.surfulater.com/

PerfectJournal (http://www.perfectjournal.com/

Redhaven Outline (http://www.rynelf.com/redhaven/video-tutorials

Snippet Center (http://www.ograhl.com/en/snippetcenter/screenshots.php

Whizfolders (http://www.whizfolders.com/

Writer’s Blocks (http://www.writersblocks.com/

Zettelkasten (http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/

ZM Zettelkasten (http://www.cc-c.de/english/download/zettelkasten.php



MAC
————-

EagleFiler (http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/

Soho Notes (http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohonotes.html

MetaNota Pro (http://www.metanota.com/

Noted (http://blankdesk.com/noted

SimpleNote (http://simplenote.com/

Journler (http://journler.com/features/screenshots/journler-web.png + http://journler.com/

Soho Notes (http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohonotes.html#bookmarklet

DevonAgent (http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonagent/overview.html

DevonNotes (http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonnote.html

MyStuffPro (http://www.mindersoftworks.com/products/mystuff/

Things (http://culturedcode.com/things/

TapForms (Mac/Ipad http://www.tapforms.com/

Caboodle (MAC/Ipad http://www.dejal.com/caboodle/ )

Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/tour/

TaskSurfer (http://www.frostydogs.com/tasksurfer/

Papers (http://www.papersapp.com/mac/

Symphytum (http://giowisys.com/products/symphytum

Xmind (http://www.xmind.net/features/

Scrivener (http://www.literatureandlatte.com



LINUX
————-

Basket Notes (http://basket.kde.org/index.php

Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/tour/

GDT Free (http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/

Symphytum (http://giowisys.com/products/symphytum

Xmind (http://www.xmind.net/features/




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SPECIAL IDEA:

another “revolutionary” idea would be
to just manually include keywords (@ # + =)
into ANY title field of ANY program,
and then just use the usually fast regular search pane,
to each time find your desired notes.
Thus, if the search would be instant enough,
and if a search history / saved terms could be quick access ideally too,
It would provide the extreme benefit of also having
EVERY single content word as an automatic de-facto “keyword”
included in the search results too as a quasi less exact, but bonus “related hits” results,
that would appear listed after your (@ # + =) tagging signs.

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Feel free to add any other outliners
or special secret useful tips you know.

Greetings!

Not on the list:

Piggydb: http://piggydb.net/

Clibu (new Surfulater): http://blog.surfulater.com/tag/clibu/

There is also the category of CAQDAS (or QDA) software, such as Nvivo, Atlas.ti, QDA Miner etc. (although the main ones are very expensive and with awkward licensing schemes):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_qualitative_data_analysis_software

On the Mac, should be "DEVONthink" and "DEVONnote" -- but not "DEVONagent". "DEVONagent" is a complex web search tool, and so it can display meta data insofar as the found page source contains it, but it doesn't really fit into the categories you set out as the criteria for your list.

I would also add "MacJournal" and "NoteBooks", "Leap" and "Yep", and "VooDoo Pad" -- all of which support various flavors of the metadata you mention.

"Journler" is now open source -- I wonder if anyone has taken it up and started working on updating it

Thanks for the Clibu mention. There were several Clibu related articles that weren't tagged Clibu which I've now corrected. A better url is: http://blog.surfulater.com/category/clibu/

Dr Andus wrote:

Not on the list:

Piggydb: http://piggydb.net/

Clibu (new Surfulater): http://blog.surfulater.com/tag/clibu/

There is also the category of CAQDAS (or QDA) software, such as Nvivo,
Atlas.ti, QDA Miner etc. (although the main ones are very expensive and
with awkward licensing schemes):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_qualitative_data_analysis_software

Thanks for adding Notezilla - http://www.conceptworld.com/Notezilla

Regards,
Gautam Jain
(Notezilla's author)

Tabbles is a file manager which relies on tagging. Its recent version integrates with Explorer and Outlook.

Tabbles has some powerful features and, as far as I understand, it fits under the Advanced category of tagging programs. That said, there are some rough edges, notably the need to install Microsft SQL server locally; the alternative is to use a hosted online SQL solution which will probably slow down local access.

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