Organize your files and folders with tags

What is TagSpaces ?

TagSpaces is an app which can be used for collecting, browsing and organizing of files and folders. It is running on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. The Lite version of the app is completely free and open source, published under the AGPL license. It features a modern intuitive user interfaces build on top web technologies. Key use cases of our software are:

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 behaviour. Your files safely stay with you, and always will.

Just files - No vendor locking

TagSpaces uses only human-readable text files to persist all the 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 even without our app.

Local-first, offline-first

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 if and with which tools (e.g. Nextcloud, Dropbox, Syncthing) you want to sync your annotated files across different computers.

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.

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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.

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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 PDF documents and EPUB eBooks
Listen to your music and play videos
Organize your e-book library
Build you own personal digital asset management system
The list of the supported files formats is still growing.

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Turn S3 compliant object storage into an online file browser

In TagSpaces Pro you can connect as location Amazon S3 compliant object storage offered by providers such as AWS, Wasabi or MinIO .

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.

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Geo-tag files and annotate maps by placing files on them

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

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, so you can show them on a map

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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.

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Basic Features

Easy File and Folder Tagging

The application supports adding tags with drag and drop to files and folders, in a transparent, not vendor locking way.

Tag Library with Colored Tags

You can organize your tags thematically in tag groups. For example the group "family" can contain tags which represents the members of your family. All those tags can have the same color in order to be easily visually recognizable.

Powerful Desktop Search

The application supports searching for files and folder in your current location or folder. It can be searched explicitly for a given tag or a combination of tags. You can even exclude results with a given tag.

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