[digiKam-users] high-level photo organization

[Antti Ahonen]

Forgot to mention, for those who think organizing takes too much time, if
you use strictly date based hierarchy, you can do things automatically.

There are many programs for this, I use exiftool.

With command:
$ exiftool -progress -r "-Directory<DateTimeOriginal" -d "%Y/%m/%d" .

I get all photos in ALL subdirectories to right order.

So no matter what system you have used this far, you can change it
literally with one command. Remember to check that you have all metadata
written on files though if you move files.

-Antti



On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 6:53 PM Peter Orth <planetorth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > plantarum.ca
> >
> > 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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> >> ignis.veneficus at gmail.com cimet!
> >> Because i want to move my mail, please use the
> >> ignis.veneficus at gmail.com email address!
>
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