Tabbles might be a bit more popular than fman. We know about 8 links to it since March 2021 and only 8 links to fman. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Shameless plug for my more modern alternative to Midnight Commander, https://fman.io. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Use a file browser that supports jumping to a folder by frecency (examples: z (shell extension) or my-dired-recent-dirs() in my dired or https://fman.io/ for users that prefer graphical UIs). You will find out that you will prefer jumping to navigation when you're familiar with the concept. Source: almost 2 years ago
There are great alternatives. I used Python and Qt to create my file manager [1]. It's a tool that needs to start quickly so Electron was not an option [2]. I open sourced my build system for creating cross-platform desktop apps with it in minutes at https://build-system.fman.io/. 1: https://fman.io 2: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-in-2016/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
And for the record, I think over the years I learned to like Finder... I guess I like the sheer simplicity (I use fman) and started to love it back in OS 9 and those lovable purple hues :P. Source: about 2 years ago
Fman by Matthew Herrmann https://fman.io From what I've gathered, success has been mixed. Duplicacy seems to be doing well based on forum activity and release history. Fman never made much money. If I recall correctly the Fman author was turned off by the number of people who criticized it for being fully open-source and wished he'd stuck with a closed-source full commercial model. I'd like for the open-source... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
You may find https://tabbles.net/ useful. Source: 12 months ago
I've also used https://tabbles.net/ before, to tag and annotate files on windows. Source: about 1 year ago
So the idea behind the organizing software Tabbles is great, I love it. File tagging, nested tags, tagging rules...etc. But the UI and some other things are just...a burden. Non intuitive, a little irritating. Source: almost 2 years ago
There is Tables, unfortunately it isn´t open source. Source: over 2 years ago
Torn between TagSpaces, Tabbles, but I'm leaning toward this. Source: over 2 years ago
Midnight Commander - GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and...
TagSpaces - TagSpaces is an open source platform for personal data management. With TagSpaces you can manage and organize the files on your laptop, tablet or smart phone.
Vifm - Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings.
allTags - allTags is a free, tag based file management application.
Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
TMSU - TMSU is a tool for tagging your files.