Open Source File Managers

TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags.

With built-in AI and a clean GTK-based interface, it analyzes file and folder names to automatically assign categories and optional subcategories. You stay in control—review and adjust the suggested categories before confirming. When you're ready, AI FileSorter creates the right folder structure and moves everything into place for you. You can use a remote AI model or download a local one (like Mistral 7B or LLaMa 3B) for faster, private file sorting - your choice.

Fileytale is a document management application. It has a feature for managing documents from multiple folders into a single project/folder. Fileytale can save only the metadata, saving storage space. It also has a snapshot (experimental) feature that can save versions of your documents. It also has a program (experimental) feature that allows you to create programs to manage your documents. One of its program features is savedoc, which allows you to save documents to another folder. This application has been abandoned, so there is no support for bugs or errors. for linux : .deb for windows : .zip

A portable, cross-platform desktop file tagging and meta-data indexing system with console and GUI interfaces.

This library and tools help you to keep tags for files in an external database. As few external dependencies as possible are needed, making it a lightweight file tagging solution.