Hello! I have a bunch of photos all mixed together, and I’d like to sort them out in order to better find the ones I’m searching for without loosing half an hour. I was thinking of adding custom tags to each image (manually), like “my dog”, “trip to Paris”, “my friend X” etc. I’d like this tag system to be portable, filesystem-indipendent. What are my best bet?

On dolphin if I click on a file I can add a custom tag. Where is the tag stored? in the file or in some plasma configuration file, so that moving the file on my phone would loose the tags?

I searched the web but probably I don’t really know how to call this, because all I found was a bunch of 11 years old threads or video tag editor (I need to do this with images)

thanks in advance!

EDIT: I have a HUGE amount of pictures to sort manually, so I’d need a GUI designed to be really quick. It probably does not exist, or if it does it won’t satisfy me, so I’d probably write my own simple frontend for it, so the ideal would be a CLI tool or something QT-compatible

  • tun
    link
    fedilink
    410 months ago

    XnView has tag and filter feature.

    • tubbaduOP
      link
      1
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      thanks for the answer! how does it store the data? Will it loose it if I transfer it to my phone?

      • tun
        link
        fedilink
        110 months ago

        That I do not know. You have to read their website for information.

        • @Trent@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          510 months ago

          There’s an option under Settings->Metadata to have the categories written to EXIF data in the image file itself.

          I just tested and the categories show up in exiftools.