I did the same journey you did. I tried TagSpaces (and DigiKam) but had thw same issues? It'd be nice if we could just use NTFS and XDG Extended Attributes, so that you wouldn't have had to look, but I'm damn glad you did!
Soo ur making a porn/amazon search ... Cool!!! I don't see why eagle needs to dupe every file, but I'm sure your "media user interface" will re address files when moved... Good luck with everything. I was happy when I found programs to remove dupes off multiple drives.
Maybe I missed it, how did you end up storing the metadata? I started a project like this a while back, and essentially I just stored a checksum of each file in a database and stored the metadata that way. Then you just write a server that watches the directory tree and updates the on disk path for any files that are moved.
I have been trying to figure out how to store amd manage my own files for decades to no avail. Glad to see I'm not the only one but I am not a programmer so my options are limited
Awesome project. I’d love it if I could go through an exercise of tagging say 500 files and have an AI assistant learn my tagging style and auto tag and review to accelerate the mgmt of all this. Else, and I struggle with this too, quite a bit of time is spent in the tagging process which is eclipsed by how fast we procure / get new files. Also - if eagle just duplicates the files - how is that different than like migrating them into say Notion or a similar workspace environment ? And thus circumventing the issues and limitations by changing the workspace .
Awesome project. I’d love it if I could go through an exercise of tagging say 500 files and have an AI assistant learn my tagging style and auto tag and review to accelerate the mgmt of all this. Else, and I struggle with this too, quite a bit of time is spent in the tagging process which is eclipsed by how fast we procure / get new files.
Hello, I have a problem with the color headers of documents, I did everything as in the instructions on github, moved the style file, numbered the names, but the colors do not apply. What could be the reason for this? I use the design from guthub, maybe it conflicts?
I found this JUST IN TIME! Ive spent the last 2 weeks outlining and prototyping something exactly like this. You have saved me from having to try and build something like this myself. I NEED this. Really really need this. I have about 100 years of family photos that im having bulk scanned and Ive been trying to figure out how to organize all the photos... honestly, you are currently my hero. Im going to TRY Eagle, but I want the flexibility of yours. I look forward to getting to try TagStudio Thank you
I don't know if this is possible, but in regards to features I'd like to see, it would actually be cool if the GUI could display a tag or tags of your choice that trump all the others that sort of have their own.. banner of sorts? Something you could even upload custom art for. Something not unlike the way Steam displays games? So you could click on the tag that you want. Even better is if it could have "folder" tags that you could click on beneath that. I have characters of my own, and while it'd be awesome for me to search up the characters I'd want, it'd also be awesome if I could click a big picture titled after one of my characters or something, and then it shows everything tagged with that.
Don't you dare stop working! If you need ANY help regarding creating a good UX or UI, reach out to me! I'll work on this open source project for free with you. I need this now.
Whenever I find a nice, clean, straightforward note taking app I find a video of someone going completely overboard with it an thereby ruins it for me. Its super pretty though, for sure.
Awesome project!! As an artist/developer/management-systems-crazy-person I loved watching this video... and from the beginning I was thinking about Eagle :P Been using it for some 2 years now, and it's great. What sold me was the option to store the same file in multiple folders at once, which helped me find many files more easily when I needed them :D
Idk if it is implemented yet, but auto-tags depending on the folder where the image is in, for example i have all my screenshot in a "ShareX" folder, it would be cool if TagStudio could automatically tag all of these with "Screenshot" tag
for the love of gd i dont understand why iclud has albums when if u addd photo to album it still stays in recents, i want to organise so let me get rid of the photo n put t t side in some album i hoose
cmon you just need details view and LARGE thumbnails view, and sidebar with file info, also status bar with size, dimensions, sorting and categories NOT tags as categories will label what the file is for and tags just describe the contents of the file, there you are golden
Dude this is so funny. i did the exact same thing as you like a few years ago. i came up with ann idea for an app to sort images using tags, When I was always on discord and wanted memes and screenshots of apps I was making, or videos of gameplay footage. I went down the same path with electron and it was a pain dealing with the file system, needed to use IPC renderer to access the file system and such. Then I started working on stuff in C++ and just changed life direction, I have no time for discord as much anymore I never needed it. I changed my laptop to mac so now I just use their photo app. Damn this is so close to what I envisioned you did well mate congratz! I will keep an eye on your project and maybe even have a cheeky look at helping out with some pull requests! keep it up it looks awesome
I take loads of arthropod macro video, 4k 60fps video. It doesn't take much for them to get into the 10s of gb file size. I've been using file names for sorting for now but would LOVE a tagging system like this that I can not only tag what is in the video but also what is happening, where and when I took it, video specs, and add a quality rating to it. Eagle sounds great but the duplicating files thing is a huge turn off when I'm talking about many GB sized files. I would gladly pay money for this program.
I grew up using Linux and was very interested in computers for a long time, and one thing that always bothered me was directories/folders. Not so much that you can make them, but that you have to if you want any kind of file organization. Every filesystem that exists today is a fucking relic from the 70's that can't do much, and nobody seems to think about it, every sysdev just says "EXT4? NTFS? yep, those sure are filesystems. what's a filesystem do? yep." and it drives me nuts.
Very nice project, and I completely understand your motivation. Having tackled this issue myself, I never came up with a full solution, but learnt a couple of things I would like to share. Productivity is crucial, otherwise you'll end up tagging part of your collection and giving up before finishing. The way it (half) worked for me was typing one or more default tags in a text box, that would be applied to any image I would click on (actually the thumbnail). Eventually, that was extended to any group of selected thumbnails (enabling bulk selection using shift+click and so on). Another thing I learnt is that you may be not sure about the way to tag until you see similar images together. I had developed a simple piece of software in Visual Basic that allowed me to sort rapidly a pretty large collection of pictures. It worked this way: I clicked on the image I wanted to go first, then the second one, and so on. At any moment, I could click on the "sort" button and images would be rearranged. Iteratively, I would end up with all the images sorted as I wanted without worring much about misplacing some of them in the first attempts. Again, I allowed to select groups of images. One sorted, bulk tagging was pretty fast.
Hi !! Great video, I may have missed it but how does TagStudio act when you rename the source file? Does it understand that the tags need to be moved to the new file name ?
