The new Tags tab is simple and powerful. (Click to zoom)

Tick Search everywhere to search the whole computer. Speed is a non-issue: All searches including the Tags filter are ultra-fast because they work directly on the tags database, i.e. they are indexed searches.

A Multi Field Search can be run directly through the Address Bar. This example shows a Boolean search for files named *.jpg or *.png, with a file title length > 32 characters, and being tagged "bw" or "camp", in the folder Don\Pics\. (Click to zoom)

Here's how a Japanese text file (DBCS-encoded) looks on a German Windows system. (Click to zoom)

Here's the same file now correctly decoded as Japanese (Shift-JIS) text file on the same German Windows system. (Click to zoom)

The supported codepages are listed in the dropdown menu in the Preview tab. Click any of the codepages to reload the current file with that specific encoding.

A Branch View sorted by Path, which puts it in a tree-like sort order: All items are shown within the direct parent folder. (Click to zoom)

Note that by clicking the Path column again, you can put the list in reverse tree-like sort order. It might have its use, and not many softwares can do this.

As you see in the screenshot above, the secondary default sorting is by Name, ascending. Now you want to sort the files by Size, ascending. Hold SHIFT and click the Size column:

A Branch View sorted by Path, and secondarily by Size, ascending. (Click to zoom)

Click the Size column again (holding SHIFT again) to sort by Size, descending:

A Branch View sorted by Path, and secondarily by Size, descending. (Click to zoom)

As a last example, click the Modified column (holding SHIFT) to sort by Modified, descending:

A Branch View sorted by Path, and secondarily by Modified, descending. (Click to zoom)

Note that Modified sorts descending on the first click only if Configuration | General | Sort date columns descending by default is ticked.

Before switching to Branch View, two subfolders have been selected in the list. (Click to zoom)

Now in Branch View (note that the Branch View button in the Toolbar is pushed), the two subfolders are shown in the list along with their contents. (Click to zoom)

It's obvious that such a Multi Branch View gives you a highly intuitive access to your files and their organization. Note that Multi Branch Views can also be triggered via selected shortcuts to folders (*.LNK files). And they can be stored as Favorites, as items in the Catalog, or as buttons in the Toolbar. So it's a single click from here to looking at files from different corners of your system, and actually working on them.

FYI, the three "Japan" files above are colored brownish because a Color Filter has been set to color all files > 3 MB.

List of Settings, filtered by "mini". (Click to zoom)

List of Commands, filtered by "stat". (Click to zoom)

Below you see how a couple of files are tagged by dropping them onto Catalog Items that point to the user-written script file tagdrop.xys. The applied tags are defined in the caption of the Catalog Items and thus extremely trivial to adjust even for non-scriptors.

1. Five files are dropped onto a Catalog Item that points to a script.

2. After the drop the five files are tagged with tag "cats".

3. This is the picture after dropping another selection onto Catalog Item "Tag: flowers,mushrooms".

This is the Properties of the Catalog Item. :tagsadd specifies the icon for the item. load "tagdrop.xys"; references the script file.

Here you see the simple script inside tagdrop.xys that does the tagging job. tagdrop.xys is located in the Scripts folder in the application data folder.

// Caption example = Set tag to dropped items: cats, dogs
  $tags = gettoken(self("caption"), 2, ":", "t"); 
  tag $tags, <get drop |> , 1;

Note that tagging is only an example for the power of drop-on-scripts. Such a script can do almost anything you want it to do.

The supported codepages are listed in the dropdown menu in the Preview tab. Click any of the codepages to reload the current file with that specific encoding. Near to the bottom of the menu you find Edit User Code Pages...

Here you can add user-defined code pages to the list of code pages available for previewing text files.