[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Helen Jelen]

Hi,

Using digikam for about 5 years, with around 150k pics in the DB. I mainly
take pictures of events with family and friends with a bridge camera and a
phone, but I also take personal pictures (non-family nor friend's: job
ones, reminders, etc.):

Therefore I have 3 root albums:

1. Family and 2. personal:

a) important albums are named yyyy-mm-dd + a description (2022-10-01 Mike's
birthday). If for a trip folder, it contains subfolders for each day of the
trip, same naming structure.

b) less important pictures are stored in monthly folders (2022-10 Misc)

3. Mobile: for personal stuff, non important pictures, so they are
classified directly into monthly folders.

I use tags to cross-group albums ("birthdays", and in there, "Mike", for
pictures of Mike's birthdays over the years).

I use stars for grading (5*=top picture, 3*=good, 0*=not rated/not
important).

I use thumbnails for the folder to distinguish if that folder has been
graded or not.

And finally, I use flags to identify any album being graded or ready to be
shared with f&f on social networks/Google drive/Dropbox/etc.

Hope it helps!

h.



On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, 03:20 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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