No doubt there are plenty of file indexing solutions out there. These range from the desktop search application such as Microsoft Desktop Search, Google Desktop Search, Copernic,…etc to the more pragmatic solutions such as simple file search as the one found in Explorer or Directory Opus. But one that gets often forgotten is file tagging.

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It's name? Daminion.

 Surprisingly, though internet offers endless applications for doing everything and nothing, you may have a hard time to find applications for sorting your files automatically. And even if you find one you may not be satisfied by the quality of it. Having spent quite some time Googling in search of the best application to bring some organization in the mess that reigns into my multiple (6) hard-disk, I have found the six applications that I will detail later on in this article.

But why would you need an application to sort your files while you could do it manually? Digital media such as pictures, videos and pdf file have a natural tendency to grow and to accumulate up to the point they become unmanageable. Often hundredth of pictures of unequal quality are taken, and as you haven't got the time to sort them, they get transferred to a "safe" location for an unlikely sorting session. Not to mention system backup which are made on and on, up to the point the backup becomes unusable as you no longer know which one contains what you are looking for. You often end up with several external drives where the information gets duplicated. So time for a clean-up session! (I feel like your energy level goes down suddenly, am I right? Come-on, do it you'll be rewarded.)