Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Thoughts on photo/video files organizing

Directory structure pattern: "YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD-tag1-tag2/xxxxx.jpg"

Should the files be renamed on copying from the camera? If necessary rename only once -- before working with the files, importing them into darktable/digikam.

Do not use stars, flags, color labels, use text tags instead, store tags in .xmp files.

Use two tags like "edit" and "edit-TIMESTAMP" when tagging photos for a special temporary/one-time task like "print" and "print-20200109"... Keep those tags to track history.

Tag photos as "printed", "shared", "published", and with a the same word but with a timestamp "printed-20200109" etc. 

Tag photos to delete with "delete" tag, rather than using digikam's delete function.

Put videos into a subdirectory.

Mark for culling: 

Certain to keep: "pick-best" > "pick-good" > "pick-keep" 

Tentative: "pick-uncertain" > "pick-bad" > "pick-delete"

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