TagSpaces
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TagSpaces is an offline, cross-platform file manager and organiser that also can function as a note taking app. The WebDAV version of the application can be installed on top of a WebDAV servers such as Nextcloud or ownCloud.
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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.
More information about can be found from the following sources:
You can find the latest release of TagSpaces in the Github release section
A full list of the changes is available in the changelog
The core of TagSpaces starting from version 3 is built with react.js and the great material-ui framework.
The native Windows, Linux and Mac OS versions of TagSpaces are built with Electron. Electron is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. In order to combine it with react we have used the electron-react-boilerplate.
./app................ contains the application core
./app/locales........ contains the language files needed for the application internationalization
./app/node_modules... contains the TagSpaces extension modules
./cordova............ contains the code needed for running the Android version
./dll................ contains the files needed for live reload in development mode
./internals.......... contains files needed for supporting Flow and Eslint
./node_modules....... after npm install, you will find here the external dependencies of the application
./resources.......... contains images and other files needed for the application building
./scripts............ contains js script needed for the npm tasks
./test............... contains unit and e2e tests of the app
./web................ contains assets needed for the web version of the app
In order to run TagSpaces on your Windows, Mac OS or Linux from the source code published here, you will need the following prerequisites:
Get the TagSpaces source code by cloning its repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces.git
Go to the folder where the code was cloned to and select the branch you want to test. Use the master branch for the last officially released version or the branch develop for a kind of a nightly build, containing the changes we are preparing for the next release of the application.
Switch to the folder where you have cloned the repository:
$ cd tagspaces
Change to the branch with the name develop:
$ git checkout develop
and install the project dependencies:
$ npm install
The last command will automatically build the application with webpack. Now it is time to install all the TagSpaces extensions:
$ npm run install-ext-node
Starting from v4 of the application, a web service is running locally as a separate process. The web service is responsible for the search index creation and the generation of the thumbnails for most of the images formats. A key is required in order for the main application to communicate with the web server. It should be defined in the .env file located in app folder. This is an example for an .env file.
KEY=a_custom_key
Having a custom key, ensures that another instance of TagSpaces will not communicate with the web service of the initial instance, since it is always running on the same port.
Now you are ready and can build and start (bs) the application with:
$ npm run bs
If you want to try the development mode, you can start it by:
$ npm run dev
This will start a development server in background, which watches for changes in background and refreshes the application automatically once you have done some changes in the source code.
Building of the packages can be accomplished with the integrated npm scripts:
$ npm run package-win
$ npm run package-linux
$ npm run package-mac
$ npm run package-mac-arm64The commands will create packages for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Mac OS with the M1 processor respectively. Do not forget to run the npm run build script before packaging.
Building of the packages for Android can be accomplished with the integrated npm scripts:
$ npm run version-meta
$ npm run prepare-cordova
$ npm run package-androidFor developing purposes and local tests, the web version of the app can be started with the following npm command:
$ npm run run-web
To run tests, run the following command
npm run test-unit
npm run test-e2e-electron
npm run test-e2e-webTagSpaces can be easily extended with the help of extensions. Currently we use the extensions for supporting the opening and editing of different file types in the application. More information about this topic can be found on the extension page of our website.
TagSpaces is an open source software, and as such, the code is publicly available on GitHub, and forking is particularly recommended! Still, contribution must be done following some guidelines. Contributor License Agreement
The CLA is an agreement commonly used in major open source project, which aims at protecting all parties implied by a contribution: the contributor, the main code author, and above all, the community. The CLA model we have chosen basically tells the following: the contribution’s copyright is shared between the contributor and the main author. This means each party can do whatever she want in term of relicensing with this contributed piece of code. This is important, because, if in the future, the author wants to change the license in something more in favor of the community, a singular contributor cannot block the process.
The Contributor License Agreement can be signed online on the following CLA form.
TagSpaces is currently available in more than 20 languages. You can help the translation of this application in your language by joining the translation teams on Transifex.
If you have ideas or suggestions on how we can improve our application, you can check the following Trello board. Here you will find numerous ideas already proposed by other users. If you want to post something new, please follow this link
If you are having troubles using TagSpaces or have found a bug please open a ticket on GitHub.
This project is dual-licensed under the AGPL (GNU Affero General Public License) Version 3 for FOSS projects and under a commercial license for independent software vendors and resellers. If you want to modify this application under different conditions, feel free to contact us.
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