A project file organizer built around the project, not the folder

Files and folders, together, per project

Each Space has a Files & Folders list. It can hold individual files and whole folders side by side, and it shows each item’s name, its real location and its type. Adding a folder gives you one entry that stands for the whole folder, so a project with a big working directory does not need hundreds of rows.

Next to the list are tabs for Snippets and Links, so the project’s reference material is one click away without leaving the Space.

Search every project, or just this one

Type in the search box and ClingSpace looks through names, locations, links, snippet text and your context notes. Results are labelled with the Space they belong to, so you can tell the churn query for one project from the churn report for another. A scope switch narrows the same search to the Space you are in.

Put things in the order you think in

Order is information. Drag items within a Space to put the brief first and the archive last, and drag Spaces in the sidebar to keep this week’s projects on top. Adding and removing is cheap, because taking something out of a Space never touches the original.

Shared resources, without duplicates

Some files belong to more than one project: a receipts folder, a style guide, a master workbook. Add it to each Space it belongs to. It stays one file on disk, and a small chip beside it lists every Space that includes it. A context note you write on the resource is shared too.

When files move or are renamed

Reorganizing folders is normal, and it should not silently break your projects. ClingSpace can often continue following supported files and folders after a rename or move. If it cannot confidently locate something it marks the item as unavailable and offers Find File or Find Folder, and if a different file now sits at the old location it can warn you that the file has changed instead of quietly attaching the wrong one.

What it deliberately does not do

ClingSpace does not rename, sort or move your files, does not auto-tag them, and does not read their contents. Organization here is something you decide and see, not something done to your folders behind your back. It also does not sync Spaces between computers or share them with other people. The why is covered in the local-first page.