Organize your files and folders with tags

How can TagSpaces be helpful to you?

Collect ➜ Organize ➜ Find

Create & Collect

With the TagSpaces Web Clipper you can collect web pages, bookmarks, geo-coordinates or screenshot from the Web. With the built-in advanced WYSIWYG Markdown editor you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas or diagrams.

Organize & Annotate

TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. On top of that in the Pro version you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders.

Search & Find - Be productive

Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. The PRO version features a full-text search on text files, which makes it a valuable substitution for Desktop search applications.

Why TagSpaces?

No Login ➜ No Backend ➜ No tracking

Privacy by design

Keep full control of your data! Since the app does not needs Internet or online registration to run, your files never leave your computer and you can access them anytime. Our apps do not collect any user data or track the user's behavior. Your files safely stay with you, and always will.

Just files - No vendor locking

TagSpaces uses only human-readable text files to persist meta information such as tags, descriptions and colors. Since we do not have a database or a software back-end, there is no vendor locking and you can easily access your information without our app.

Always available - No Internet, no problem

Our desktop application is running completely offline on your computer or smartphone and does not require Internet connection. It is up to you to decide with which tools you can sync (e.g. Nextcloud, Dropbox, Syncthing) or encrypt (e.g. Cryptomator) your annotated files across different computers. Our key principle: Local-first, offline-first!

Open and Extensible

TagSpaces Lite which is the core our applications is open source and published under the AGPL license. The application is based on modern web technologies and is designed to be easily extendible with plugins, which we call extensions. Almost all of them are published under the MIT license.

Intuitive and easy to use

TagSpaces is designed to be easy to install and use. It offers the same convenient interface for handling and annotating files on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

Key features

Play YouTube video showing the tagging and searching functionalities

Add tags and description to files and folders

Organize your photos, documents, music, recipes or invoices with tags in the same way on all platforms.
You can assign custom color to every folder and tag, which makes the visual search easy.
You can add a custom thumbnail and text description to every file or folder.
In contrary to the most file tagging applications, TagSpaces does not persist the tags in a centralized way. As a consequence, the added meta information is not vendor locked.

Learn more about tagging

Create digital notes as plain files

TagSpaces can be used as a full-fledged note-taking application similar to Evernote or Notion.
You can create and edit notes in WYSIWYG text editors.
Markdown, HTML and plain text are the available formats for the notes.
Common blocks such as lists, headers, tables and embedded images can be used
Our new Markdown editor supports even LaTeX math equations and source code snippets.
You can create To-Do lists and organize them in a kind of offline personal wiki for tracking your projects, ideas or memories.

Learn more about note-taking

Browse and preview your files

The app is like a web browser but for files, where you can:

Open your digital photos and images
Preview and organize documents, spreadsheets or scans
Listen to your music and play videos
Preview 3D models and files for 3D printing
Organize your eBook library
Build you own personal digital asset management system
The list of the supported files formats is still growing.

More about managing digital assets

Use or share your files online by putting them on a S3 compliant object storage

In TagSpaces you can connect Amazon S3 compliant object storage offered by providers such as AWS, Wasabi or MinIO. With the help of the web version you can use your files from everywhere even from your iPhone or Android mobile.

Browse, preview, tag and search the files located there.
Edit files located in the cloud without downloading and re-uploading them.
Upload new files to the buckets with simple drag and drop actions.
Create time-limited, sharable links to files on buckets.
Create your own Dropbox or Evernote-like services only by using AWS S3, Wasabi or MinIO as back-end.
MinIO is explicitly supported, allowing you to self-host S3 compatible buckets on NAS systems and manage them.

Learn more connecting S3 buckets

Folders as Kanban boards in TagSpaces Pro

Create files based offline Kanban boards in TagSpaces Pro

TagSpaces Pro has a built-in perspective, which allows you represent any folder with sub folders as a Kanban board. So you use TagSpaces for:

Personal task management or "Personal Kanban"
Track progress on projects
Use Kanban board for hiring process or in marketing teams
Import existing Trello boards for a offline support

More about the Kanban boards

Geo-tag files and folder and show them on a map

TagSpaces Pro has a built-in perspective, which allows you to show geo-tagged files and folders on a digital map. So you can:

Display geo-tagged files on a digital map
Place any file or folder on a map
Annotate maps with files
Privately save favorite places
Plan or document trips and places to visit
Extract geo coordinates from photos with the built-in IPTC/EXIF support

Learn more about geo-tagging

Play YouTube video showing the capabilities of the Mapique perspective

Collect content from web pages with our Web Clipper browser extension

Save web pages, text snippets, screenshot from web pages or bookmark on your local hard drive as simple files for a later offline use.

We offer free Chrome, Edge and Firefox browser extensions for web clipping.
Saving whole web pages or only part of them, allowing you to use the application similar to the many "read in later" services.
Take a screenshot from the visible part of the webpage or create a bookmark to it. This, together with the tagging support allows you to use TagSpaces as a full-fledged bookmark manager.
Using just files for storing the web pages has many advantages. The main one is that your collected content is not "taken hostage" in any online service.

Learn more about web clipping