What is reftag?

Do you want to:

• organize your files using tags (i.e. categories)?
• be able to find your files from the command-line?
• not be dependent on indexing daemons?

Then reftag may be for you.

Born out of the need to organize digital files to support my GTD (Getting Things Done) process, I created a simple file tagging system. To my surprise, I could not find something similar, except for:

Project appears to be comatose.

Rich feature set, needs dbus, and an indexing daemon. Files that are unknown to the database cannot be tagged, which is not convenient.

I do not want to tag every file that I have.

I needed something lightweight, and chose to implement it myself using Python and SQLite.