Folders get YYYY-MM-DD, files get whatever they get. A simple text.txt file get placed in each folder describing the photos of that day.
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This is what I was going to do. I didn't know if there was someway of doing it "better". In lieu of some obvious way of doing it, I was going to do the naming file format, and then write a quick little preview/tagging script.
However you go about it, keep it simple. If it’s complicated or a chore to do, compliance will likely fall off and you might not maintain it.
I do the YMD thing with folders, but fail to do the text file; it’s not a deal killer for me, but there are times we have to figure out what on earth we were doing. We can get a lot of contextual clues from the photos themselves. Depending on what you’re shooting, establishing shots can be really helpful.
For dark table import I make the folder structure like this
$(EXIF.YEAR)/$(EXIF.MONTH)/$(EXIF.DAY)
And the rename like this
$(EXIF.YEAR)-$(EXIF.MONTH)-$(EXIF.DAY)_$(EXIF.HOUR)$(EXIF.MINUTE)$(EXIF.SECOND)_$(EXIF.MODEL)_$(SEQUENCE).$(FILE_EXTENSION)
This gets saved to a photos folder on my external drive that also gets sync'd to my nas at home with syncthingy
I used to use photo rapid downloader which was really nice but haven't figured out how to use it on bazzite
Photo rapid downloader is probably what you want if you are also doing videos. Just make sure you get the destinations and naming setup for both photo and video before doing a big batch
I used to split up my photos by format also but gave that up after I couldn't get photo rapid on bazzite and just switched to darktable import
Thanks for the reply. I'm going to look at photo rapid downloader, and pull up darktable.
I always note this stuff down in obsidian so that next time I reinstall the os I know what I did
This was my setup for rapid photo downloader
Photos Destination
mnt -> photos -> Photography hit the cog to edit
<Extension (UPPERCASE)>/<Image date (YYYY)>/<Image date (MM)>/<Image date (DD)>
Videos Destination
mnt -> photos -> videos hit the cog to edit
<Video date (YYYY)>/<Video date (MM)>/<Video date (DD)>
photo rename
<Image date (YYYY-MM-DD)>_<Image date (HHMMSS)>_<Camera model (UPPERCASE)><Session number (Four digits)>
video rename
<Video date (YYYY-MM-DD)>_<Video date (HHMMSS)>_<Session number (Four digits)>
Organize how, exactly?
I'm so out of my comfort zone, I was just wondering if people knew of an obvious way of dealing with media. My idea is to be able to edit videos/pictures from to , or call up all videos/pictures with a tag that labels things like people, place, why, et. al. I don't think it'll take very long to get something working just using a quick script, I've done similar before. 99% of the time I find I like my solution better, but then there are things like Calibre. Sure I could, and have, hacked up something to manage my books, but it wouldn't be as good or as easy as just using Calibre.
Okay then you don't want to organize them, you want an interface. Chuck all the pictures in a folder, and use something like darktable to review and edit them, you can search by tag, filter by metadata, all that fun stuff.