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jmathai / elodie

An EXIF-based photo assistant, organizer and workflow automation tool.
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Is there a place for "Event" metadata in the directory path? #96

Closed Ramblurr closed 8 years ago

Ramblurr commented 8 years ago

This issue is probably a feature request.

I currently organize my photos in a similar directory structure, with the addition of event meta data in the folder name.

These event names are optional, and they let me quickly identify what was going on on that day/month.

Assuming I live in New York, I might have many, many photos taken in New York. So for example instead of 2014-03-Mar/New York/, I label mine folders 2014-03-Mar/New York - Alice Birthday .

These aren't albums strictly speaking, just an additional piece of metadata to help remind me what was going on.

This doesn't look possible in the current version of elodie, and I would love to see it, but obviously would have to be implemented so it is useful for most people. This might be straying too far into traditional photo organizational territory, but I personally find huge list of timestamped directories filled with similar location names quite cumbersome to navigate.

What does the community think?

jmathai commented 8 years ago

@Ramblurr Albums might be what you're looking for. Elodie supports a custom EXIF tag which is used to store album information and maps to the file system.

./elodie.py update --album="New York - Alice Birthday" file1.jpg file2.jpg

If a photo already contains this EXIF tag then it will be properly placed into the correct folder.

This is also supported in the GUI with an Album field you can use.

Try it and close this issue if it does what you're looking for.

Ramblurr commented 8 years ago

Oh that's great! Does it affect the folder naming structure?

Edit: Tried it out, it does! This is perfect. I can geotag the photos but organize the folders by album name. Fantastic.

This should really be in the README :grinning:

jmathai commented 8 years ago

Just closing the loop. Yes it does affect the folder naming in the way I believe you described.

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