You may want to try TagSpaces https://www.tagspaces.org/ or TMSU https://tmsu.org/ which provide mechanisms for managing tags of arbitrary files (not only EXIF or ID3 ones).
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5 months ago
The author of TMSU left a sibling comment to yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507343 > TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program. > TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever you put…
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about 1 year ago
And what led me to build [TMSU](https://tmsu.org/).
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about 1 year ago
I haven’t used this myself, but I saw a recent announcement here about https://github.com/vifon/tmsu.el#features by /u/vifon which lets you tag files (with https://tmsu.org/ ) from dired, perhaps it would be possible to add features on top of that to colour based on tags? (e.g. Tagging “red” would colour it red).
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about 1 year ago
The TMSU Nautilus Extension seems to require you to install the command-line tool TMSU (a tool to tag files).
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over 1 year ago
Hello! For some time I’ve been developing a package to integrate the TMSU file tagging system with Emacs and dired. While I find TMSU great, I didn’t really like its UI, so I’ve turned Emacs into a subjectively better one.
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over 1 year ago
This is why I like nnn so much. It’s really simple to add plugins to it and extend it’s functionality. For this problem you could pair tiramisu which is a file tagging tool with nnn to have it be the interface.
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almost 2 years ago
I’m writing another script to turn the metadata into tags and import it to TagSpaces, wutag, dolphin, TMSU, Supertag.
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about 2 years ago
A good command-line file tagging program is tmsu. I use it to tag thousands of PDFs and image files for academic research purposes.
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about 2 years ago
Tmsu – it’s a format-agnostic tagger. It keeps its own separate database to keep track of files and their tags.
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about 2 years ago
TMSU – CLI, there is an option to have a virtual filesystem that can be displayed in your native file manager. (https://tmsu.org).
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over 2 years ago
On the command line there is https://tmsu.org/.
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almost 3 years ago
I can’t really say much about sorting files with specific strings in the file names without knowing the details but TMSU can be used to tag files and to then do queries based on those tags (also a CLI tool).
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about 3 years ago
Yeah, it still requires management and discipline from the user for it to be useful. FWIW I use Pinboard daily and finding something among thousands of bookmarks is a breeze. I can usually find what I’m looking for with a single tag or an intersection of just two tags. Finding anything on the filesystem is much more difficult, even with good directory structure discipline. I’m not actually interested in building…
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over 3 years ago
I am trying to brainstorm a simple and robust way to organize personal files. These include things like documents, photos, media, etc. I’m on Linux and I’m using a tag based file manager TMSU (tmsu.org) to tag my files. I want to avoid putting files in a directory hierarchy, because a file can belong to multiple categories and so tagging them seems ideal.
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over 3 years ago
Dreams aside, I know about projects like https://tmsu.org/ and https://www.tagsistant.net/ but are limited in scope and not exactly widely used – also, as a certain Linus, they don’t scale, sorry for the joke -, so the devs are not keeping things up to date, actually, some projects look abandoned. Look into them, they can provide some great ideas. In any case, look also for “semantic filesystem” if you want to…
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over 3 years ago
Another CLI tool I found was TMSU which will add tags to files via commands. It was pretty old though.
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over 3 years ago
Poppin in with another one that I kinda want to try myself. Basically this but in Python – maintaining a database of “tags” to associate with files, for filtering and searching. Already exists on Windows (not sure since when), but Linux doesn’t have such an “official” tool for this, AFAIK.
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over 3 years ago
If someone is interested I can detail my workflow, it involves mostly ebooks, pdfs and standards. I use hashes, tmsu (an excelent and solid tool https://tmsu.org/), and xml databases.
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over 3 years ago
