Files stay put. Tags catch up.

Carpo is a desktop media-tag manager that lays a tag overlay across folders you already curate — photos, video, audio — without moving or owning the files. Rename or move them, and the tags follow.

Status: v1.0.1 released.

✨ Features

• 🗂️ Browse, don't index — Carpo observes folders you already curate; it never moves or owns files on disk
• 🏷️ Tag any path — folders and files alike, with workspace-scoped tag vocabularies ("buckets")
• 🔁 Tags follow renames — a SHA-256 content fingerprint rebinds tags across renames and moves
• ⚡ Live filesystem — a directory watcher keeps the grid current as files arrive, move, or disappear
• ⌨️ Keyboard-first — arrow keys to move, Enter to open, Backspace to ascend, Ctrl+A to select all visible
• 🌳 Hierarchical tags — filtering by a parent tag rolls in every descendant; counts add up naturally

🛣️ Planned

• Saved views — named tag-condition queries persisted across sessions
• Drag & drop — drop a file onto a tag to attach; drag files between folders
• Format-aware metadata (EXIF, codec, ID3)
• In-app media playback — FFmpeg frames, audio waveforms, fullscreen viewing

🔗 Links

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