Hacker News Reader

I do wonder if NTFS will ever get file tagging. Stuff like this serves to fill a stopgap that honestly shouldn't exist, especially now that many major Linux filesystems have had this functionality baked-in.

View on HN

"I do wonder if NTFS will ever get file tagging." That's just a plain lie. You can use tags in Windows and NTFS. Have you looked for the feature?

https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/add-tags-to-files...

Whoa, I never knew that! Explorer really ought to have a more overt tagging option, it probably would have kept me on Windows for a couple more weeks.

It depends on what you mean by file tagging. NTFS has supported alternate data streams since forever ago, but as far as I know there is no standard key:value format for tags that is recognized by a wide number of applications.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com