First impression

hey guys, just wanted to share my views on tag2find.

I came across tag2find on lifehacker's in the comment section of one of the article on file management. I decided to give it a try. They also had mentioned UtraFolder which I downloaded and installed along with tag2find. After playing around with tag2find and UltraFolder for few minutes, I never looked back at UltraFolder. I've been since using tag2find to play around with my files.

See, I'd been looking for something like this for past couple of weeks. After my inbox at home piled up to its teeth due to my laziness to file paper documents, I decided to give scanning and managing documents digitally a shot. This triggered a series of trials and purchases of various types of softwares and hardware. I ended up getting Canon Pixma MX700 all-in-on scanner/printer; settled on True image 11 as backup software on external drive as well as mozy backup online; and after much trial and error on various encryption software decided on TrueCrypt as virtual drive software and AxCrypt as individual file encryption. Both are excellent and free programs!

Of course, archiving is nothing without indexing and finding what you are looking for in matter of seconds. I looked for various softwares and techniques (there is even a product called 42tags that have scanning capability as well as tagging - promising product but too expensive for $50!) - I also tried using File properties -> summary tab --> key words and summary fields and then using copernic desktop search (excellent search engine, btw! ) which worked OK until I found the caveat: CDS searches files by key words/summary just fine but if you encrypt those files using, say, AxCrypt or any other encryption software, it cannot search for key words! what a bummer.

So I finally stumbled upon tag2find. First of all, let me say, that during the course of past few weeks, I've come across commercial grade product who may offer the functionality that you're looking for but their user interface sucks; it's "cheap" and sluggish. Tag2find stands out for its user interface. When I'm tagging files or searching for them or doing anything that has anything to do with tagging, I can't help but notice how nice the user interface is-- there is definitely room for improvement but I've not used the product long enough to definitively point those things out--will do in the future but so far I must say that tag2find team/developer has got the right idea. Searching for tags and it brings matched tags on the fly as you type got to be a must and tag2find implements it very well!

The only confusion I had about the program was how to delete some tag. Also, "Edit list in" functionality to add tags to files is not very intuitive; it can be confusing for the newbie and I'm sure it could be made more straightforward. Also, tagging is something that people know intuitively how it can organize your files but they don't know exactly how to use it and if the user interface/product is built around addressing that problem then it can help a lot right from the get-go.

Missing in the product is a help file with some tutorial etc under help menu. I know there is some material on the website itself but I kinda had to sift through. I think if the help file includes definition with pic various components (e.g. what does tag browser look like etc) then it would help a lot because in actual tag browser, the window title reads "tag2find" not "tag browser".

Besides that, so far, I'm very impressed. The product does tagging very well. Specially the ability to tag encrypted files as if they are regular file is definitely a winner. It's definitely one of those products that has commercial and professional grade quality and promise but is absolutely free! Not to mention very useful indeed! Thank you!