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The Ultimate Desktop Tagging System.. Now With Sharing and plugins!

Please note folks, Tabbles Corporate and Tabbles Home are also available at the same 25% discount during today's promotion!

Let's talk about document management for a moment. Right now, you probably think that your system of organization works pretty well -- you've got folders on your hard drive that are dedicated to certain clients, types of documents, dates, and whatnot. But if a document can rightfully belong to MORE THAN ONE category, where do you put it? Do you make two copies? What if one gets updated and the other doesn't?

Tabbles is a revolutionary new document management system that will help you to categorize and organize your files more efficiently than ever! With Tabbles, you create as many categorized tabbles (they function like folders) as you need, then assign each of your documents to one or more tabbles! Did you hear that? You can put the same file into several tabbles, without the need for problematic file duplication! This is the primary benefit to Tabbles' non-hierarchical and cross-linked structure.

Click the following link for a quick overview from the developer.

Beyond the ability to place the same file into several categories, Tabbles also excels at describing the contents of your files, folders, and bookmarks. No longer will you have to remember the exact name of a file to find it - just describe the file to Tabbles in an easy and natural way, and Tabbles will find it for you!

***Announcing the Tabbles API (Corporate and Business licenses only)! That's right, there's now a dedicated Tabbles API System that allows anyone and everyone to develop custom plugins for Tabbles! And the first plugin is already available: the Tabbles-Outlook plugin allows you to tag your emails in Outlook (or Tabbles) and then search them based on tags in Outlook (and Tabbles). It's like an extension of Outlook's “categories”. And it's a darn-good way to organize, sort, and search your emails right along with your documents!***

Just one glance at your file icons immediately tells you which tabbles are linked to each file. The tabbles are arranged in a circle that surrounds each file, so you know right away if a file belongs to more than one category. You can even use Tabbles to navigate your way through files based on how they are related!

But Tabbles isn't just a document manager. It's also a "social tagging tool" that facilitates document sharing in an extraordinarily intuitive way:

Want to be able to share and manage files with your friends, family, and colleagues? Sick of navigating permissions settings and file trees? With the shared tagging feature, Tabbles allows multiple users to browse and contribute to each-others tagging routines. Shared tagging in Tabbles is as simple as single-user tagging, but provides a very real alternative to massively expensive corporate Document Management Systems. Tabbles Shared Tagging offers an extremely gentle learning curve, is extraordinarliy fast to use and requires zero-setup:

  • Find files based on what they're related to independent to their position on disk.
  • On-the-fly group files far away from each other, based on their relations.
  • Speed-up collaboration and communication -- tags can describe files extremely efficiently.
  • Serverless and zero-setup: sharing works on a LAN as well as on cloud-storage services (such as Dropbox, Powerfolder, SugarSync etc...).
  • ...and much more. Follow the link for a comprehensive overview of Tabbles' new shared tagging features.
Today's Tabbles Business discount promotion includes the following license types:
Tabbles Business ($51.75)
Tabbles Home ($21.75)
Tabbles Corporate ($96.75)

Review Written by Derek Lee
Tabbles Business

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Arkadiusz Robert I'm very glad customer and I reccomend tabbles :)
Jan 7 at 12:48am
Charlotte Sinclaire A couple of questions: I have an older version of Tabbles -- for XP, I think, that I never really got into using but it always intrigued me. Can I get an upgrade to that, for Windows 7, or is it more economical to buy through Bits du Jour and start all over?

Second question: I'm not sure I understand just what version I need to buy. I have some projects going that involve other people in various locations. We already use Dropbox to share files, but the files have proliferated a great deal, and it would be good to have only one copy and have Tabbles point to them. But I don't understand the limitations and don't know if the Home version would suit or if I have to go the next version up. I am just not quite clear how the connection through something like Dropbox works, how many people I can share with, etc. (The Home version description says 1 user/1 PC, but its reference to "the cloud" mentions 4 people/4 pcs, so I'm confused.) Clarification, please and thank you.
Jan 8 at 11:37am
H. H. Hallo,
tabbles seems quite promising, but an important question occured during testing:
- does tabbles have the ability to monitor location-changes of files/folders - e.g. moving a file from folder a to b?. If not will this feature be available within the version 2.x?
(if tabbles does not monitor file movings executed by windows explorer or ohter file managers it could be a dealbreaker)
H.H.
Jan 8 at 5:12pm
Andrea D'Intino Arkadiusz: thanks :)

Charlotte:
- if you have an old license, you can just update it to the latest one (2.4.10). Just download it and install it
- If you're looking to have more people sharing the tagging (on Dropbox or on a shared folder), you'll need one Corporate license per user.

H.H.: good point - the current version doesn't track file movement (as long as you don't move files using Tabbles (which is possible) but we do actually have developed a solution to that but it hasn't been implemented yet. We hope we can get it done in the first half of this year. But anyway, this is usually something that people worry about only in the beginning: the workflow offered by the program is meant to allow you to forget where the files are, thus slowly you stop caring about moving them around.

Thanks!
A.
Yellow blue soft Vendor - Jan 9 at 3:53am
Diego SEO Andrea,

I'm a current customer but unfortunately I can't recommend your software to anyone. It's buggy, it also fills the registry with thousands keys (that are not removed if you uninstall the software), it crashed my system frequently, it's not possible to move the files or rename anything (no, it's not a concern of beginners only), I have been waiting for years for improvements of the Outlook plugin. There are good reasons why users ask in your forum if the project is dead...

Well, I'm really sorry saying this because I feel sympathy for you and your project but it seems to me that it's too ambitious and unrealistic. Revolutionary says the author of this review but I wonder if he has ever used the software in a productivity enviroment.

I really wish you a big success with this project but many improvements would be required to provide the reliable tagging solution we are waiting for.

Regards.
Jan 9 at 6:12am
Andrea D'Intino Hello Diego,

thanks for your honest feedback, which is indeed more useful than a congratulation.

We agree about the Outlook Plugin (which is stated as in beta and we're still working on and could also be the source of the keys in the registry) and about the forum/blog (which need some serious reworking) as well as file tracking - all things the we're working on.

But the the fact that Tabbles crashes your system frequently is really unheard! Have you submitted your crash reports to us? If so, what did we reply?
We have several thousands users (no exaggeration) and we're in touch with probably a couple hundreds. The very few of them who reported a crashy behaviour, they simply had a crashy Windows and usually solved all their problems by reinstalling the OS. So could you please elaborate this part?

Thanks,
Andrea
Yellow blue soft Vendor - Jan 9 at 6:38am
DrTeeth This is very good software. The only concern I have is the lack of updates. If I were a new and prospective customer, the lack of updates would but me off buying at ANY price.

As regards usability of the program, I would like to be able to define the shape of Tabbles icons rather than just their colour. I don't have that many categories, but have exhausted the colours to differentiate them already.
Jan 10 at 12:48am
Dion Tom Hi,

What are the features that Home edition is lacking?

Thanks,
Dion
Jan 10 at 2:25am
Andrea D'Intino Dr Teeth:
thanks for your comment. We've been sleeping for longer than one year but we kicked-off a new round of development in November 2012... and since the blog and the forum are half-broken, I've been using facebook to communicate:

http://www.facebook.com/p...2763993426
Yellow blue soft Vendor - Jan 10 at 2:47am
Andrea D'Intino Dion Tom:
the main difference between versions relates to the tag-sharing.
- the Home will allow max 4 users to share their tagging
- the Business is for 1 user with 3 Pcs
- the Corporate allows for many users to share their db
Yellow blue soft Vendor - Jan 10 at 2:50am
DrTeeth @ Andrea

Please spare a thought for Tabbles users who do not use facebook.
Jan 10 at 7:49am
H. H. @Andrea D'Intino
thank you for responding. It´s fine to read, that the fileUfolder moving tracking will bi implemented. Do you already know, if this will be within the current verion or if a new major version will be released with this (i´m asking this, because it would not make sense for me to buy tabbles before this feature is implemented (I already own the home version from a former offer, but the lack of the tracking feature was the main reason to stop using tabbles).
Looking forward to the futher develpment
with kind regards
H.H.
Jan 10 at 8:21am
Andrea D'Intino DrTeeth: if you don't use facebook you don't deserve any thought from anyone :-D (kidding). We know our website needs a round of freshing up and the blog/forum need some serious fixing.

H. H.: we're currently focusing on moving from our custom made database to a real SQL db, the file-tracking is definitely coming after. Also, the technology we developed will only track movement done using explorer (as we're hooking a Windows library to do that) so if you're using Opus or Total Commander you won't see any benefit.
Yellow blue soft Vendor - Jan 10 at 9:26am
Jesus InsideMe Hi, I'm customer from 2012/March, and no updates since that date, such that Outlook plugins and problem when either U3 or pen drive is plugged remain there! :( Nice solutions, but those bugs are making me let it use! :( (I sent email about errors... never responded), God bless you, bye
Jan 10 at 11:01am
Diego SEO Hello Andrea,

I'll give the program a second chance when you complete the development of file and folder tracking and improve the Outlook add-in (please, don't forget the issues with the registry - maybe storing the data in a separate configuration file). Please, keep us informed (newsletter).

FYI: The developers of XYPlorer (a pretty popular file manager offered here as well) implemented tagging features recently and are working on it. Maybe you could contact them to collaborate in order to elaborate some compatibility with your system (who knows, maybe you both are using the same Windows library).

All the best,
Diego
Jan 10 at 11:09am
Retired Engineer Do you, or will you, support Tabbles hierarchies? The anology here is to C++ inheritance hierarchies, which are very useful in scientific/technical applications, IMHO.
Jan 10 at 11:32am
Andrea D'Intino Retired Engineer: I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking, could you please elaborate?
Anyway, Tabbles is written entirely in .net (C# and F#), so no C++ there.
Yellow blue soft Vendor - Jan 10 at 11:56am
Stephen Warkentien In 11.3 of your EULA "seize" should be "cease."
Jan 10 at 8:29pm
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