[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Antti Ahonen]

Personally I always arrange everything in year/month/day hierarchy. Perhaps
not mandatory regarding Digikam use, but makes life easier with backups and
stuff when the archive gets big.

All information related to shoot, project, etc is added as metadata in
files and sidecar files.

That is how I try to manage with my files.

-Antti



On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:41 AM Sheridan Price <sheridanmp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because of the built in date functions I've found it more useful to store
> photos under descriptive folders as in:
> year then a sub folder having a name that is some description for that
> shoot. Hence I might have 2022/Experimental Farm/May.   2022/Experimental
> Farm/July.
>
> And why you might ask? Well I have found that mentally if I am looking for
> a particular photo or set of photos I can usually remember the year and
> event and hence can find it quickly in digikam  by going directly to the
> folder - no search necessary. If I only know part of the info then I can do
> proper searches via the search tools and when displayed the folder path
> often helps jog my memory to help zero in quickly to the correct folder
> without having to actually consider each individual folder.
>
> This does not preclude using useful tags on each photo. That allows for
> real detailed and extensive searches. This just makes some quick searches
> quicker.
>
> Sher
>
> On Sun., Oct. 16, 2022, 9:20 p.m. Tyler Smith, <tyler at plantarum.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been doing a lot of work in Digikam over the past few weeks, and the
>> many features available for organizing and tagging my photos. Now I wonder
>> how experienced users take advantage of all it offers.
>>
>> Pre-Digikam, I stored my photos in nested folders by year, month, date,
>> with the dates sometimes labelled by location or event. i.e.,
>>
>> 2022
>>   10
>>      09
>>      10
>>      31-halloween
>>
>> Now with Digikam, it's trivially easy to view images by date without
>> sorting them myself. So now I wonder, how do you store your images on file,
>> and how do you approach tagging/rating/annotating? So many options, I'd
>> like to hear about what workflows you find particularly useful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tyler
>>
>> --
>> plantarum.ca
>>
>
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