<div dir="ltr">I too use the yy/mm/dd folder hierarchy which many other people in this thread seem to do.<div>However, one thing I miss in digikam compared with my previous (Windows) photo organiser (PaintShopPro) and that is the ability to reorder photos in a folder by drag and drop and also have the option to have them ordered by default by the order in which they were added to the folder - ie independent of dates, tags etc.</div><div>Ok, that's two things</div><div> - or maybe I have missed some option(s)?</div><div>Chris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 09:36, <<a href="mailto:dmpop@tokyoma.de">dmpop@tokyoma.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
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Allow me to chime in with a slightly different take on the topic. "A well-kept house is a sign of a misspent life" are the words I live by, and I apply them to how I manage my photos. That is to say, I don't manage them at all.<br>
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And why would I, when the entire point of digiKam is that I don't have to? If I need to see all photos taken on a particular date, it only takes a couple of clicks in digiKam. Need to find photos taken in a specific location? digiKam can handle that too. Filters are also super useful and easy to use. And the Advanced Search feature is there for all the tricky problems.<br>
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Basically, the idea of having some sort of directory hierarchy is a vestige of times when finding stuff was difficult. <br>
In my not-so-humble opinion, tags are overrated, and tagging is such a mind-numbingly boring task. So I just pour JPEG and RAW files into digiKam and let the application do the work it's built to perform.<br>
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I do group and tags photos belonging to specific photographic projects, though. And I do it for two reasons. 1. I simply like seeing a project growing. 2. Most stock photography services I work with pick up tags automatically, so tagging photos in digiKam saves my some time and effort. Oh, and I use picks to track my submissions.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
Dmitri<br>
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October 17, 2022 3:20 AM, "Tyler Smith" <<a href="mailto:tyler@plantarum.ca" target="_blank">tyler@plantarum.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the many features available<br>
> for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I wonder how experienced users take advantage of all it<br>
> offers. <br>
> <br>
> Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date, with the dates sometimes<br>
> labelled by location or event. i.e.,<br>
> <br>
> 2022<br>
> 10<br>
> 09<br>
> 10<br>
> 31-halloween<br>
> <br>
> Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without sorting them myself. So now I<br>
> wonder, how do you store your images on file, and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So<br>
> many options, I'd like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Tyler<br>
> <br>
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