FolderViz Perspective
The FolderViz Perspective is a collection of experimental views that apply information visualization techniques to represent files and folders. While this perspective primarily serves as a showcase of TagSpaces' capabilities for developers, some of its features may also be beneficial for end users.
This perspective currently offers three views accessible via the perspective menu. Hovering over a file or folder displays an overlay with a thumbnail (if available) and additional details. Double-clicking on a folder navigates to that folder, while double-clicking on a file opens it in the file preview area.
Tree View
Radial Tree View
Treemap View
Legacy Views from v2
MindMap View
The MindMap View displays all folders and subfolders within the current directory in an expandable tree-node format. There are plans to enhance this view in the future with an inverted graph of tags, allowing you to navigate your tagged files via a tag group tree rather than a folder tree. This could enable drag-and-drop functionality, where moving a file between branches would automatically re-tag it.
TreeMap View
The TreeMap View represents files and folders as tiles, where the size of each tile corresponds to the file size relative to others in the same folder hierarchy. This provides a visual understanding of file sizes in relation to the root and each other.
Tree View
The Tree View shows a fully expanded, non-interactive folder tree, similar to MindMap, but static. While useful for visualizing folder hierarchies, it may struggle with performance in large directories.
TreeMap-Navi View
TreeMap Navi is similar to TreeMap but omits the folder hierarchy, using the entire user interface to represent relative file sizes. This view can be particularly useful for identifying large files or folders.
Bilevel Partition
The Bilevel Partition is the most experimental view, mainly designed as a test to explore folder and file visualization capabilities. While it can generate intriguing visual results, it is likely to be removed in a future release of TagSpaces.
