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What you've done here (and it's no bad thing given filesystems!) is define dates as an ad hoc index over a primary key which is the pair (date, filename). What

What you've done here (and it's no bad thing given filesystems!) is define dates as an ad hoc index over a primary key which is the pair (date, filename). What I'd like, personally, is a way to expose any sortable EXIF data as a 'filesystem', for example `~/Photos/Longitude/122-123/Latitude/36-37/`. Most of the commentary on a tag system seems predicated on the idea that we can't derive a large volume of tags automatically from the circumstances and provenance of the data. For instance, instead of a Downloads folder (per se, it would be a view) we could have a "downloaded" tag, which could have "downloaded-by" = "Chrome" and "downloaded-from" = "https://example.com/a-url/ https://example.com/a-url/". That's a lot more useful to me than a Downloads folder, especially if those tags endure when I add further metadata of the "canonical folder" variety, also known as "moving" the file.

didgetmaster 5y ago
I actually started coding a way to automatically extract EXIF data from all imported jpeg files and automatically attach them as tags to the file. That way you could search for photos taken with a specific camera, or only photos where the flash was used, or location data (if your camera had GPS), etc.. I just haven't had the bandwidth to get back to that feature and finish it.
- samatman 5y ago
  If you don't mind some drive-by advice: I suspect you have some kind of good idea here, and I'm having trouble really seeing what it is. I can also read from your site and comments the frustration you're experiencing in getting your product shipped, and also in explaining the benefits of it. The Internet sucks, it's a hostile place, and unfortunately leaking the bad feelings this invokes in you is off-putting to your audience. I've had an unpublished blog post sitting around called "file systems suck" so I'm about as sympathetic an audience as you'll find. Good luck with your implementation; I'll be keeping an eye on your project, and I hope to understand it better in some later iteration of the docs.

didgetmaster 5y ago

I actually started coding a way to automatically extract EXIF data from all imported jpeg files and automatically attach them as tags to the file. That way you could search for photos taken with a specific camera, or only photos where the flash was used, or location data (if your camera had GPS), etc.. I just haven't had the bandwidth to get back to that feature and finish it.

samatman 5y ago
If you don't mind some drive-by advice: I suspect you have some kind of good idea here, and I'm having trouble really seeing what it is. I can also read from your site and comments the frustration you're experiencing in getting your product shipped, and also in explaining the benefits of it. The Internet sucks, it's a hostile place, and unfortunately leaking the bad feelings this invokes in you is off-putting to your audience. I've had an unpublished blog post sitting around called "file systems suck" so I'm about as sympathetic an audience as you'll find. Good luck with your implementation; I'll be keeping an eye on your project, and I hope to understand it better in some later iteration of the docs.