Tabbles is a very innovative file management utility. It uses the concept of tags to sort your files, but here, tags are called Tabbles. When you add a file to a Tabble, it is like adding a tag to the file itself. Later on, you can find the file just by using its filename and location or by recalling what its Tabble is. You can add several files to each Tabble.
Tabbles behave like folders, so you can either drag-and-drop files into them or you can just copy them there. The program integrates with the system shell, so you can tag files using the right-click menu. When you double-click on a Tabble in the application's GUI, you will see all the files on your computer that were added to that Tabble, regardless of their location on your hard drive.
If you want to make full use of this application, you may want to combine Tabbles. Combining Tabbles allows you to find files with more than one tag assigned to them. So, instead of just copying files around to several folders to keep a copy for easy access just create several Tabbles and keep one file. Thus, you keep your system clutter-free. Conceptually, this is a great way of managing your files; it makes everything easier and speedier, but it does take a while to get used to it. If you live in a country that is ranked outside of the first 30 best-ranking countries in terms of GDP according to Wikipedia, you can get this for roughly $10.
v4.0.33 [Sep 21, 2016]
Tabbles 4.0.27 fixes major bugs and brings us very close to getting out of beta. This update took us a couple of months, especially because we had to do an architectural change to the Sql engine. Let me start with the bug fixes:
First, for about a month, the Tabbles installer has been failing on most machines. This was not our fault. Microsoft changed a remote file, which made our installer fail. This is now fixed, and everybody should be able to install Tabbles again.
Second, some people could not make Tabbles Local to work: when they pressed the “go” button, they would get a crash. This was not our fault either. The culprit was the software “Ad-Aware” or “WebCompanion” from Lavasoft. See here for instructions for removing it completely. So, everybody should now be able to use Tabbles Local.
Another major problem fixed was that Tabbles had problems connecting to Sql Servers on a network that is very slow, because the first “handshake” call would timeout. In particular, Sql Server hosted on Windows 10 seem to have this problem. If you use Tabbles Lan, we suggest hosting Sql Server on Windows Server, or at least on Windows 7. Anyway, now we have increased the timeout, so Tabbles should not fail to connect to Sql Servers on slow networks. (But you should fix your network anyway.)
Let us now come to the main technical improvement. Basically, we have largely rewritten our logical engine, improving its performance, especially if you have files on network drives and many machines in your organization. In particular, you might have noticed that, the first time you started Tabbles on a new machine, a very long synchronization task would start, which was needed for you to be able to see files tagged on other machines. This does not happen anymore. Technically, if a file was on a network drive, previously we stored in the database many copies of that file, one for each machine in your organization; whereas now we store that file just once. So no synchronization is needed anymore: everything happens on-the-fly. In addition, everything is much faster due to other sql optimizations we made.
This improvement is very important for us, because it means that Tabbles is finally ready to be deployed in organizations with hundreds of machines and thousands of tagged files, without performance issues. And even if you have few machines, you will notice a performance improvement.
We have also completely translated Tabbles in French and Chinese. (and German is coming soon).
We also did some customizations on commission (caching thumbnails on network drives), and we implemented a few often-requested features such as the “select all” menu option (useful for example if you need to drag all the files in a zip folder).
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