I found that when I took the time to assign tabbles to files as they were created, this was a VERY POWERFUL tool. You decide what tabbles you want (you can always add and delete and rename then later) and you decide what files to manage and how much detail you want to track. It doesn’t store copies of your files, only basic information about the files and what tabbles are assigned to it, and what tabbles you create and if any are in a parent/child hierarchy. Because tabbles uses a database server right on your own PC (or elsewhere if you want), it’s very fast in assigning and searching. I don’t know how well it works for file stored on external drives, and how well it manages file moves (in the past you had to move a file using the Tabbles program, but they were working on how to integrate that better with Windows. Doing all this grouping is EXTREMELY EASY and can help you find and group files no matter where they are stored. You can find all the bills and payments made when you broke your leg, or all medical payments made in 2017 (could be handy at tax time). You can find all the demo songs you wrote for your sister’s band, or all the blues songs you recorded as multitracks for your sister’s band that are in key of G and don’t have a I-IV-V progression. So now you can find all the pictures of friends that joined you on vacation in 2015. You could create a table for Renewal Date to help you manage subscriptions and licenses, and assign these to small text files with details of the license (free updates for major revision level, no updates, license keys, web or street address). You could have a tabble that represents whether a file is created by you, or copyrighted, or if it has DRM. You can assign a PictureCategory to track Vacation, Nature, Friends, Family, Work, Evidence…. You could have a Client table for each customer you create things for, or a Who tabble for each organization you pay money to and a Medical tabble for Checkups, Prescriptions, Emergencies, Insurance, etc. You could have SongGenre (Blues, Hard Rock, Metal, Country…) or SongKey or SongProgression or SongScale…. Split Songs into Tab, Score, Demo, Idea, MIDI, Sample, MultiTrack. Split DiskManagers into Backup, Defrag, Partition, FindDuplicates, Virtual. You could split documents into Spreadsheets, Presentations, Text, Charts, Pictures, Songs, Courses. You can make tabbles for all the different types of things you create, download and purchase for your PC, like Games, Programming, PhotoEdit, Paint, PDF, System, DiskManagers, Desktop, Documents, MusicCreation, Financial. Some obvious tabbles (you can create all the types you want) are filetype (avi, mp4, mp3, jpg, xls, doc, etc.) and file date (doesn’t need to be the actual file date, maybe you want to group scanned receipts or bills by month and year, like 2017Aug, 2017Sep, etc.), but files can be searched and sorted by these attributes in any file manager. You only need to assign tabbles to the files you want to manage. What everyone seems to be missing in other reviews is that once you have your files “organized” by assigning one or even many tabbles (tags) as needed, it becomes very simple to find and manage them.
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