tagspaces introduction
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ORGANIZE YOUR FILES!TagSpaces Introduction
by Ilian Sapundshiev in January 2015
@ilianste
WHAT IS TAGSPACES ?it is open source and extensible platform for personaldata managementit let you organize, tag and browse your local files, photosand documents on almost every platforms.project initiated in 2013 in Munich, Germany
official website: , source hosted on
build with HTML5, Javascript, Cordova, Node-Webkit
tagspaces.orggithub.com
WHY TAGSPACES ?In a world where more and more personal information iscollected and owned by mobile apps and web portals,TagSpaces gives you an alternative of owning your dataand having it nicely organize and visualized with themanner of modern web technologies.Open SourceExtensible with PluginsEasy to use
NO BACKEND PHILOSOPHYTagSpaces is not a web portal or web application, sothere is no server back-end.The Application is not Internet dependent, so a pureoffline use is absolutely possible.TagSpaces is not indexing you files in a database in orderto save meta information. All the needed information isextracted by the time of use from the file respectivelyfolder structure.
FILE TAGGINGTagSpaces uses the file name for saving the tagstags are saved after the following schema:file title [tag1 tag2 tag3].extensionexample: img_2343 [USA beach miami].jpgexample: meeting [bmw 20140214 john].html
FILE SYSTEM AS A DATABASENo database or vendor lockingFindability - with the search capabilities of your operatingsystemEasy to synchronize between devices (just use TagSpaceswith your Dropbox folder)But! File path lenght restricted on the some OSs likeWindows to ca. 255 chars (BTW tweets are max. 140 chars)
FILE MANAGEMENTcreate files (plain text, html, markdown)create directoriesrename filesmove files (drag&drop)delete files
FILE BROWSING & PREVIEWINGTagSpaces can preview over 50 different file types suchas:Images (PNG, BMP, JPG, GIF), Videos and Audio (MP3,OGG)Documents (PDF, MHT, HTML, ODF, ODT, ODS, ODP,MARKDOWN)Color coded preview of common programing languagesAdditional viewers can be easily added
PERSONAL WIKI - NOTE TAKING ASIN ONENOTE
TagSpaces can also create and edit text files in thefollowing formats:HTML, MARKDOWN, TextSourcecode (e.g. of C, Java, C++, Javascript, PHP, Ruby,XML languages)Additional editors can be implemented
WEBSCRAPPING AS IN EVERNOTEWith the Chrome extension you are now able:To capture whole webpage as MHTMLTo save the selection from a webpage in HTML formatTo take screenshot of the visibale part of the currentwebpage as PNG
ANDROID
App available in the Google's Play Store
WEBDAV / SERVER EDITIONIt is possible to install TagSpaces on a server:Connection via WebDAV interface toownCloud or any other WebDAB serverRestriction: TagSpaces should be located on the sameserver as the WebDAV server
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HELP WITH DEVELOPMENT?Improve existing or create new file viewers or editors.Create new perspectives for directory visualization.Just contact me to coordinate our efforts.
ABOUT ME
Ilian Sapundshievstudied @ - computer science & computationallinquisticsworked @ Dassault Systemes and Siemensnow: freelancing and leading the TagSpaces projectfind me on twitter or interested in the open web, "noBackend" and VR
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@ilianste www.ilian.me