[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Peter Orth]

Chiming in late: I organize pics in two separate directories, work and other
Within that there’s a folder for each year (2022-work) and a folder for each capture day (YYYMMDD format, i.e. 20221024-work) and then that is sub-divided by subject as needed. 
So  Pictures > Work > 2022-Work > 20221024-work > Descriptive Folder Name
My archive is critical to my work, and I’ve outlived my last database solution (iView/MediaPro) so to me it’s a matter of principle to have a system that still retains some structure even without a database.

It’s reassuring to see I’m not alone in organizing chronologically.

Peter Orth

 
> On Oct 24, 2022, at 7:04 AM, Tyler Smith <tyler at plantarum.ca> wrote:
> 
> Thanks everyone for contributing your workflows! This was very interesting to read through, and will give me some ideas to explore with my own images.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Tyler
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> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, at 2:34 PM, Tóth Csaba wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I'm using Digicam for 5 years. I have 30K+ pictures from difference 
>> sources, with different subjects:
>> - scanned photos from analog film trips (negative, positive, created 
>> different cameras)
>> - digital photos from digital cameras
>> - photos from phone
>> - photos of family
>> I try to keep the original picture names as unique name, and for fast 
>> finding. for everything else I always used Exif, database, and now 
>> Digikam (I know its a database in the deep)
>> Because hard to organize, I have two root directory:
>> - family
>> - pictures take by me
>> In the family directory just three sub-dir: take by us by camera,  take 
>> by us with phone, take by other.
>> In the directories many sub directories, every contains pictures with 
>> sum size 4.5G (old plan to archive it onto DVD's but never happened, the 
>> structure still valid)
>> Taken by me photos:
>> Subdir for negativ, positiv (films), and digital, each directory has 
>> subdirectories by cameras. For roll films 10 roll per directory, in 
>> digital 1000 images per directory. (I dont used phone to take photo for
>> This is the "physical" organization.
>> For the "logical" I use every possibility in the Digikam: star system, 
>> coloring, heavy tagging.
>> 
>> Hope it helps!
>> 
>> Csaba
>> 
>> On 2022-10-17 03:20, Tyler Smith 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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