[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Chris Deuchar]

I too use the yy/mm/dd folder hierarchy which many other people in this
thread seem to do.
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.
Ok, that's two things
 - or maybe I have missed some option(s)?
Chris

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 09:36, <dmpop at tokyoma.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Basically, the idea of having some sort of directory hierarchy is a
> vestige of times when finding stuff was difficult.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dmitri
> ---
> Tōkyō Made - https://tokyoma.de/
>
> October 17, 2022 3:20 AM, "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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