[Feature Request]: TagStudio as a File Explorer

[MonsterSe7en]

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• [X] I am using an up-to-date version.
• [X] I have read the documentation.
• [X] I have searched existing issues.

Description

Would love to see basic features like sorting the files based on criteria such as sort by date, name. We could probably import them as direct tags or something

Respect folder structures, maybe possible to include the folder and parent folders as HARD / Special Tags??

If the above seems like a lot of work.

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Possibly get tag studio integrated into Windows explorer somehow, like Right click a file in Windows Explorer to add a Tag, Locate the file in TagStudio

Thank you for your work, I'm sure the alpha version you developed is a result of your work!!

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[CyanVoxel]

Would love to see basic features like sorting the files based on criteria such as sort by date, name.

Sorting by this info is currently on the feature roadmap and has been mentioned in issues #68 and #207

We could probably import them as direct tags or something

Folder names can currently be added as tags using the "Folders to tags" feature

Respect folder structures, maybe possible to include the folder and parent folders as HARD / Special Tags??

Also mentioned in #21 - I feel that it would make more sense to use folders as optional "rules" that allow other unrelated tags to be added, rather than linking folders as tags themselves since folders naturally can't take on the same properties as tags and would just create confusion. I also believe a similar result to searching by folders would be to use the file path search syntax added in #606.

Possibly get tag studio integrated into Windows explorer somehow, like Right click a file in Windows Explorer to add a Tag, Locate the file in TagStudio

This would involve a tremendous amount of work to only to be limited by the Windows File Explorer and context menu UI, not to mention we would need to do this for every single platform and every single file explorer. This is why we make our own frontend, as to not be limited by platform restrictions and to use a single codebase and experience across all platforms.

Thank you for your work, I'm sure the alpha version you developed is a result of your work!!

Thank you so much!! I don't mean to sound overly harsh with some of these responses, it's just stuff that's been given a lot of thought so I have lot of research and opinions stored up on these things 😅

Overall, I would like to add some ability to view your library that reveals the underlying folder structure, but without limiting the program to such a structure. Same with the folder-bound tags, these would act as an extension to your folder structure in order to leverage any existing structures you have in place, but TagStudio and its features as a whole shouldn't be bound by what you can or can't do in a folder hierarchy or native file explorers.