We’ve just released a really nifty update. As of approximately 7 and a half minutes ago, Home Document Manager supports tagging as a way of organizing your documents. As any of you who use Gmail, Evernote, Zoho etc will know – folders are good, tags are great, but folders + tags is the business! Any of you familiar with GTD’s action tags or Covey Roles will already be familiar with the power of tags.

What is a tag?

A tag can be anything you want it to be. You can create tags corresponding to your project, your workflow, or how you like to organise your tasks. Tags are hierarchical, and completely free form. The important difference between Tags and folder is that tags are not mutually exclusive. A document can be in only 1 folder, but can have any number of tags. The image on the left is just an example of how you could organise your tags.

You can browse your documents with each tag in much the same way as you do with folders. Just click on the tag.

When documents appear in the document list, any tags they have will be displayed underneath their icons (shown left). Using tags is a great way add a little GTD to your paperwork. It certainly saves having papers sitting round with post-it notes stuck on them.

This is very much the beginning of Home Document Manager’s affair with tagging. There are a lot of other tag-oriented features on the roadmap. It’s an important new feature, so your feedback is really valuable.

As usual, no action is required on your part to receive this update. Home Document Manager will update itself whenever an Internet connection is present.