Tags
Each tag has a name and one of the six brand accent colours:Applying tags
Right-click any file or folder and choose Tags from the context menu, or use the Info panel (⌘ I) to manage tags for the selection. Tag dots appear on
the right side of every row in the list view.
Tag Files view
Click a tag in the sidebar to open the Tag Files view — a filtered list of every file carrying that tag, regardless of where it lives on disk. It’s a history entry, so the toolbar Back/Forward arrows traverse it alongside folders.Recents
The Recents view is a persistent list of recently touched files that survives across sessions. Open it from the sidebar; it updates automatically as you work.Persistence through moves and renames
When you rename or move a file inside FilDOS, the database path references are updated atomically viaremapPaths. Tags, recents, folder-view preferences, and
the AI index all follow the file to its new location in a single, prefix-safe
update.
Rows for files deleted outside FilDOS are pruned lazily — the next time a tag’s
files or the recents list are fetched, each path is stat’d and stale entries drop
out.
Every metadata mutation is a single SQL statement — no multi-await
transactions — so concurrent IPC handlers can never interleave into a
half-applied state. Read more in Data Layer.