tagsforall - file tagging utility (Windows)

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Posted by jimspoon
Oct 6, 2014 at 04:08 AM

Recently discovered tagsforall, a file tagging utility for Windows. From the videos on the website, looks impressive.

http://www.akslab.com/tagsforall/

What particularly interests me is that you can save tags “inside the files”, so that the tags travel with the files when copied to another NTFS disk.

This makes me think that tagsforall is using “alternate data streams” (ADS) to store the tags.

Perhaps one could store notes in individual text files, tag them with tags4all, and then retrieve the files containing specified tags.

Would be better if the tagging and searching by tags were done at the OS level rather than via a third party utility. (The Mac has this, right?)

Quote from website:

How to share tags or move files with tags? ( Pro version )
The Pro version of TagsForAll lets you save tag data inside files.
You will not lose any tag data if you reinstall Windows, or even if the tag database is damaged or lost.
You can add tags to files on one computer, and then copy or move the tagged files to another computer using a USB flash drive (“memory stick” or “pen drive”) or an external hard drive. The tags will be automatically added to the TagsForAll database. (Please note that the USB flash drive or external hard drive must be formatted in NTFS.)
You can add tags to files on a removable hard drive, and then connect it to another computer and select “Scan files for tags” to add all tags to the local database.

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