Your offline data manager
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, personal data manager.
It helps you organize files on your Windows, Linux, Android or Mac.

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Cross-platform file tagging, annotation and finding

  • Organize your photos, ebooks, music, recipes or invoices in the same way on almost every operating system. We currently support Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android.
  • With the help of tags you can do research better or you can manage your personal projects using the GTD methodology.
  • The application persists the tags in the file names. As a consequence, this meta information is not vendor locked and can be used even without TagSpaces. The absence of a database, makes syncing of the tag meta information easy across different devices with cloud services like Dropbox. In the PRO version we have added an alternative way for tagging based on sidecar files.
  • TagSpaces features basic file management operations, so it can be used as simple file manager supporting file tagging. In the PRO version you can in addition asign tags to folder and annotate files and folders with makrdown.
TagSpaces File Tagging
TagSpaces Note Taking

Note taking and information management

  • TagSpaces products can be used as alterenative for Evernote's note taking and webscrapping functionalities.
  • You can create and edit notes in plain text, markdown or HTML file formats.
  • With our webclippers for Chrome and Firefox you can save web page content in HTML or MHTML formats for later use, allowing you to use the application similar to the many "read in later" services. Preserving the content as it is by the time of the saving.
  • By saving of a given wep pages, its URL is embedded into the created file, so you are have automacilly a bookmark to it. This allows you to use TagSpaces as a bookmark manager.
  • You can use TagSpaces to organize your e-book library, containing for example PDF or EPUB documents.
  • You can create To-Do lists and organize them in a kind of offline personal wiki for tracking your projects, ideas or memories.

Browse folders and preview your files in one application

  • Navigate throught your local file system in a convenient and responsive user interface, familiar from the modern cloud based file storage services.
  • Preview your digital photos, listen your local music and video content, open PDF documents and collected web pages. The list of supported files types constantly growing.
  • The Chrome extension of TagSpaces is a perfect addition to the Google's Chromecast, where you can stream your local photos, documents, videos and music to your TV or audio system.
TagSpaces Browsing Files

Why use TagSpaces?

 Open and Extensible

The source code of TagSpaces core is open source, published under the AGPL license. The application is designed to be easily extended with different extensions for visualization of directory structures or for opening of different file types. Most of the these extensions are published under the MIT open source license.

 No Backend ➜ No Login ➜ No Cloud

TagSpaces is running completely offline on your computer, smartphone or tablet and does not require internet connection or online registration. You can still use platforms like Nextcloud, Dropbox or Syncthing in order to sync your files between devices.

 Ease of use

TagSpaces offers you a convenient web interface to your local file system. It is implemented in JavaScript and HTML5, which are the technologies behind most of the modern web applications.

Key Features

  Easy File Tagging

The application supports adding tags to files, in a transparent, not vendor locking way. You can tag your files by a simple drag & drop actions.

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  Tag Groups and Colors

You can organize your tags thematically in groups, for example the tag group "family" can contain tags with the names of your family member, useful for photo tagging. In addition you can assign different color to your tags.

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  Desktop Search

The application support searching for files in your current location. It can be searched explicitely for given tags.

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  Go Paperless

Organize bills, letters, invoices and other important documents

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  File and Folder Management

TagSpaces features a set of basic file and folder management operations such as create, rename, move and delete.

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  Go further with extensions

The application can be extended with additional viewers and editors for different file types and perspectives for visualizing of folder structures.

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Discover your files through different perspectives!

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