Click to view Tagging has taken off on the web, but what about on your hard drive? On the heels of Mac OS X's file tagging and Smart Folders features, Windows Vista users can now tag their files and ...

https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,83998/description.html offers something useful and different–a new way to organize and find files on your hard disk, not ...

In the days of SSSD floppies (ask your father), personal computer file systems were flat. As drive space expanded, the folder/file paradigm became dominant. With drives now holding hundreds of ...

We all love music. Some people love slow music, while some love hip-hop type. Many of us hold a huge collection of various kinds of music. Our collection is often based on the name of the artists, ...

I've reorganized my files more times than I care to admit. Each time, I'd spend hours building what I thought was the perfect folder structure, only to abandon it weeks later when reality proved ...

Anyone using Windows 10 will depend on the search function on a daily basis, but if you can’t find a specific file, then there’s one way to ensure it always appears in the results — tags. One of the ...

Windows only: Freeware application tag2find provides quick, on-the-fly tagging of your files. You can tag any file (or group of files) by dragging it onto the tag2find TagBox, then typing the tag(s) ...

Tagging files is a powerful and easy way to tidy up your files, but it’s currently limited to the new iOS 11 Files app. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac One of the most useful features in iOS 11’s ...

I have discussed in detail how you can use Tags in Windows to enhance your search. One of the basic problems with Windows Tags is that it is not available for every type of files. In this post, we ...

Reader Andrew Ainsbury can’t seem to wait for the future. He writes: I watched Apple’s WWDC keynote address the other day and loved the idea of adding tags to my files. Is there a way I can do ...

Even after Apple added hundreds of new features to Leopard, the actual process of organizing files in the Finder hasn't improved much. Sure, Spotlight got a speed boost so searching for files is ...

For a fairly scruffy looking guy, I have a surprisingly healthy approach to organising my files. However, I'm constantly pushing up against the limitations of a system that is based around directories ...