Search by what a file is about — not just what it's called.
Quick answer: Type a property search in File Explorer's search box, such as tags:invoice, kind:=picture, datemodified:this week or size:>100MB. Windows Search answers from its index. Productivity Plus Pack adds tags and ratings to many more file types and lets you save searches like these as one-click filters in the navigation pane, built with a visual query builder.
File names only get you so far. Windows keeps a lot of information about your files — dates, size, type, and tags and ratings where they exist — and you can search on all of it.
Tag+ and Rate+ from Productivity Plus Pack add tags and ratings to many more file types, and let you save metadata searches as one-click filters in File Explorer.
Use what's built into Windows, the tools you already have, or Productivity Plus Pack — they work well together.
File Explorer's search box understands property searches like kind:, datemodified:, size: and tags:, and you can add columns such as Tags and Rating to any folder view.
Productivity Plus Pack saves your searches as filters in the navigation pane, built with a visual query builder and backed by Windows Search.
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Tag, Rating, Person, File name, Folder, File extension, File size, Date modified, Date created and Item type - combined with AND or OR.
Searches and filters use Windows Search, so they only include files in locations Windows Search indexes.
Yes. Comment+ saves comments to the file's Comments property, so they show up in Explorer's Comments column and in search.
Use this idea in a real-world workflow.
Keep contracts, amendments and correspondence together, record document status and notes, and find the signed files again in File Explorer.
Collect research PDFs, review AI-assisted topic tags, record why sources matter and find relevant papers with tags, ratings and Explorer filters.
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