Looks nice and like a good idea, but according to the FAQ it's Windows only and there are currently no concrete plans to change that - maybe you should mention that somewhere in the introduction, e.g. "Ritt supercharges your Windows file management with the power of tag trees"? You might argue that Windows is still the dominant platform, but not so sure how true that is for your target audience (users who install a paid file manager). Of course, being cross-platform would be an additional selling point (people would be able to use the same file manager on several platforms).

I've been using Hydrus [1] for the longest time now. It covers all of my tagging needs. Using the API, I can tag images using AI models [2], and have a client [3] to search through files on my phone. Native features also include automatic imports, backups, deduping, and much more.

The maintainer is working tirelessly and pushes new updates every week. It's one of the most underrated pieces of software ever, in my opinion.

[1] https://github.com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus

[2] https://github.com/Garbevoir/wd-e621-hydrus-tagger (monkey patchable to use other models besides anime ones)

[3] https://github.com/floogulinc/hydrus-web

Interesting. Here would be my must-have requirements:

- Linux-centric, with native support for KDE tags.

- Nextcloud-centric, with native support for Nextcloud tags.

- Holistic: one single tagging schema not only for files/filesystems, but also for emails (Gmail tags), treat photo albums as tags (eg. in Google Photos, or in Nextcloud Memories, or in PhotoPrism, …), tag-based note-taking software. For example, renaming a tag in Nextcloud web filesystem browser will rename it also in all integrated systems…

- With extensibility "outwards" (I have my own homemade tools that use tags to organize information. The tool should manage those tags too) and "inwards" (I use FolderSync to bring WhatsApp pictures into my filesystem, the target of FolderSync should allow to get incoming picturs tagged with #fromWhatsapp, #WhatsApp<Name of Chat>, #yyyy-mm-dd).

- Without AI.

- Local-only (ie. without its own cloud).

In server development domain, object storage has become a widely accepted API and storage form. I'm curious why the PC domain hasn't entered the stage of object storage + label-based searching.

People interested in such solution available for other platforms may want to try TagSpaces https://www.tagspaces.org/ or TMSU https://tmsu.org/ which provide mechanisms for managing tags of arbitrary files.

Hello, congrats on your launch!

How would I export my data outside Ritt? Would tags be converted to a hierarchy of folders?

Looks nice, though in 2024 I don't have much files / photos / etc on my local computer anymore. My photos are now 100% taken with my phone, and they are searched / stored / synced through e.g. Google photo

I love the hamburger icon <3. Good luck!

Just an FYI, the text in your top banner is unreadable in dark mode.

after reading "Auto Tag with AI", sorry but no

I feel this tool is in the same space as [Eagle][1] and some other image organizers.

On another note, I feel it would be good if it could be used in combination with S3-based storage so one can use it to manage his/her online photo/image collection. Previously, this kind of app was typically a web app.

[1]: https://en.eagle.cool/

This looks cool. However, anybody interested in a cross-platform option can look at https://www.tagspaces.org/