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* Related tools and workflows * Related Tools and Workflows
# --- BEGIN SHARED: how_to_thank_me --- see https://github.com/novoid/screencasts/
Alternative implementations of date2name: I'm glad if you like my tool. I've got way more projects on:
- https://github.com/DerBeutlin/date2name.el for Emacs/dired
- https://github.com/muehlburger/d2n in Go
--------------- - [[https://github.com/novoid/][GitHub]] (oldest projects),
- [[https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/][GitLab.com]] (older projects), and
- [[https://codeberg.org/publicvoit/][Codeberg]] (newest projects).
If you want to support me:
- [[https://karl-voit.at/2018/06/07/cardware/][Send old-fashioned *postcard* per snailmail]] - I love personal feedback!
- see [[http://tinyurl.com/j6w8hyo][my address]]
- Send feature wishes or improvements as an issue
- Create issues for bugs
- Contribute merge requests for bug fixes
- Check out my other cool projects on the platforms above
If you want to contribute to this cool project, please fork and
contribute!
I am using [[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/][Python PEP8]] and occasionally some ideas from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development][Test Driven
Development (TDD)]]. I fancy Python3 with [[https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/annotations.html][type annotations]], although I'm
not using them everywhere at the moment. Starting with 2025, I began
to use help from Claude.ai which is a huge improvement, given my lack
of programming practice and knowledge.
After all, each of my tools was developed because I needed its
functionality and could not get it elsewhere - at least to my
knowledge or taste.
# --- END SHARED: how_to_thank_me --- see https://github.com/novoid/screencasts/
* How to Thank Me and Contribute to the Poroject
# --- BEGIN SHARED: filetags_tools --- see https://github.com/novoid/screencasts/
This tool is part of a tool-set which I use to manage my digital files This tool is part of a tool-set which I use to manage my digital files
such as photographs. My work-flows are described in [[http://karl-voit.at/managing-digital-photographs/][this blog posting]] such as photographs. My work-flows are described in [[http://karl-voit.at/managing-digital-photographs/][this blog posting]]
you might like to read. you might like to read and in the video which is linked above.
In short: In short:
For *tagging*, please refer to [[https://github.com/novoid/filetags][filetags]] and its documentation. - For *tagging*, please refer to [[https://github.com/novoid/filetags][filetags]] and its documentation. It's
the most important part of the whole concept on how I manage files.
See [[https://github.com/novoid/date2name][date2name]] for easily adding ISO *time-stamps or date-stamps* to - See [[https://github.com/novoid/date2name][date2name]] for easily adding ISO *time-stamps or date-stamps* to files.
files.
For *easily naming and tagging* files within file browsers that allow - For *easily naming and tagging* files within file browsers that
integration of external tools, see [[https://github.com/novoid/appendfilename][appendfilename]] (once more) and allow integration of external tools, see [[https://github.com/novoid/appendfilename][appendfilename]] (once more)
[[https://github.com/novoid/filetags][filetags]]. and [[https://github.com/novoid/filetags][filetags]].
Moving to the archive folders is done using [[https://github.com/novoid/move2archive][move2archive]]. - Moving to the archive folders is done using [[https://github.com/novoid/move2archive][move2archive]].
Having tagged photographs gives you many advantages. For example, I - Naming files is tedious. Therefore, I wrote [[https://github.com/novoid/guess-filename.py/][guessfilename]]:
automatically [[https://github.com/novoid/set_desktop_background_according_to_season][choose my *desktop background image* according to the Python-script, guesses according to file name, optional PDF content,
current season]]. optional video json metadata.
Files containing an ISO time/date-stamp gets indexed by the - Having tagged photographs gives you many advantages. For example, I
filename-module of [[https://github.com/novoid/Memacs][Memacs]]. automatically [[https://github.com/novoid/set_desktop_background_according_to_season][choose my *desktop background image* according to the
current season]].
Here is [[https://glt18-programm.linuxtage.at/events/321.html][a 45 minute talk I gave]] at [[https://glt18.linuxtage.at/][Linuxtage Graz 2018]] presenting the - Files containing an ISO time/date-stamp gets indexed by the
idea of and workflows related to appendfilename and other handy tools filename-module of [[https://github.com/novoid/Memacs][Memacs]].
for file management:
[[https://media.ccc.de/v/GLT18_-_321_-_en_-_g_ap147_004_-_201804281550_-_the_advantages_of_file_name_conventions_and_tagging_-_karl_voit/][bin/2018-05-06 filetags demo slide for video preview with video button -- screenshots.png]] -----------
* How to Thank Me - Alternative implementations of the =filetags= concept:
- [[https://github.com/beutelma/filetags.el][GitHub - DerBeutlin/filetags.el: Emacs package to manage filetags in the filename]]
- With [[https://github.com/protesilaos/denote][denote]], Protesilaos Stavrou implemented a conceptually
related approach to manage notes within an Emacs buffer. With
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dired][Emacs/dired]], this method equally may be applied on files, too.
I'm glad you like my tools. If you want to support me: - Related to =date2name=:
- https://github.com/DerBeutlin/date2name.el Alternative implementation for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dired][Emacs/dired]]
- https://github.com/muehlburger/d2n Alternative implementation in [[https://go.dev/][Go]]
- Send old-fashioned *postcard* per snailmail - I love personal feedback! - Related to =m2a=:
- see [[http://tinyurl.com/j6w8hyo][my address]] - https://github.com/velvet-jones/imgfiler/
- Send feature wishes or improvements as an issue on GitHub
- Create issues on GitHub for bugs - Related to =guessfilename=:
- Contribute merge requests for bug fixes - [[http://www.jonasjberg.com/][Jonas Sjöberg]] took my idea and developed the much more advanced (and
- Check out my other cool [[https://github.com/novoid][projects on GitHub]] thus a bit more complicated) [[https://github.com/jonasjberg/autonameow][autonameow]]. It uses rule-based renaming,
analyzes content of plain text, epub, pdf and rtf files, extracts
meta-data from many different file formats via [[https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%257Ephil/exiftool/][exiftool]] and so forth.
- [[https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/comments/f6ku5p/building_an_auto_file_sorter_need_requirements/][This reddit thread]] brought me to [[https://github.com/unreadablewxy/fs-curator][fs-curator]] whose [[https://github.com/unreadablewxy/fs-curator/wiki][documentation]] looks
promising. I did not test it and it's still in an early stage.
However, it could be a future user-friendly part of a workflow that
watches folders for file changes and applies processes like
guessfilename.
- I you don't need the full power of a programming language,
[[https://github.com/tfeldmann/organize][organize]] might do the trick for you. Instead of coding Python, you
define your rules within a text file. For many people, this may
seem more user friendly.
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- A research platform for testing file-tagging on all platforms: [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/][tagstore]]
- This happens to be an important part of [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/downloads/Voit2012b.pdf][my PhD thesis]] in PIM.
- Not maintained since 2013 any more but surely still a cool
starting point in case you want to get a flexible tool when doing
research with tagging interfaces.
- Good resources for tagging software in general
- [[https://turbofuture.com/computers/Whats-the-Best-Software-for-Tagging-Files-A-Review][What's the Best Software for Tagging Files? | TurboFuture]]
- "Marktübersicht von Tagging-Werkzeugen und Vergleich mit tagstore" (German, 2013): linked on [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml][this page]] of the [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/][tagstore project]]
- If you do like filetags but you prefer the syntax of [[https://www.tagspaces.org/][TagSpaces]] for
adding tags to file names, you should check out [[https://github.com/jgru/filetags][this filetags fork]].
Maintenance is limited though. Please notice that my other tools
working with tags do not support TagSpaces-style either.
- https://forge.chapril.org/tykayn/rangement.git
- An NPM implementation of a subset of GuessFileName (using image exif header), append2name, move2archive
- You probably need to read a bit of French
# --- END SHARED: filetags_tools --- see https://github.com/novoid/screencasts/