[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Henrik Hemrin]

Hi, 

I have only used digiKam for a limited period of time and it has so far not affected my way to organize. We’ll see if it will. So: 

For my own digital photos, I use the photo shoot date as folder strategy. 
I generally feel it will only complicate to find out a good name that describe the photo session, or that when I empty the card manually divide in several folders. But maybe I will change my strategy.

For digital photos taken by someone else (beyond family), I keep in separate folder branch and then on photographers name. 

Much of my management is also for analog photos. For analog photos, I organize in a way that makes it easy to track down the original. So I use those one way or another: film type (neg/pos/colour/bw/paper), per film roll, per photographer, per physical binder etc. 

Best regards
Henrik

> 17 okt. 2022 kl. 11:52 skrev Antti Ahonen <aahonen at gmail.com>:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> 
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