notefile VS TagSpaces

Then, I use the tool I wrote called notefile to add comments, tags, or anything else I want. It associated them by name, hash, and general metadata but does not modify the items. I don’t like how some domain-specific formats do that.

I wrote a tool that may help: notefile

Honestly, I don't use it. I wrote my own tool to tag and annotate files, notefile, which I obviously trust. And is open source so you can too.

I wrote a tool for keeping sidecars called Notefile. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for but has some features that may be of interest.

I wrote my own CLI tool called notefile which writes sidecar files and does tags. I use it on actual home photos and videos but presumable it works on the “…” kind too.

Yeah. It is really frustrating. I wrote my own (and I am rewriting it over Christmas to improve it) called notefile which uses YAML. It is certainly not standardized as it is my tool but the hope is that since it is just YAML, it can always be migrated to something new.

I wrote my own tool to do this called notefile. It makes sidecar YAML files. On macOS or Linux, it can also write it as hidden files.

Annote the files, both the exported and the matched, with my sidecar tool

This is actually the last and only time I mess with photo metadata. Anything else, I use my own tool to create YAML sidecars (often hidden but noted with a separate macOS Finder tag). I don't like to do anything that changes the contents of the file since it makes it sync again.

https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces

Either way, will definitely be keeping an eye on your app, it seems ducking cool ;)

TagSpaces – Your versatile file organizer (version 50504): organize, tag and browse your files, photos and documents

Take a file. Add [awesome] to the name. There. You've tagged a file, and you can search for it with your desktop search / fzf / etc. Switch system, copy it anywhere, it works. You can do this by hand. Or, if you like clicks and drag-n-drop, use TagSpaces. Or, use tss.

The UNIX filesystem has traditionally been a graph for ever. I haven't looked at details for a couple of decades, but definitely all UNIX/POSIX/Linux filesystems operate on a graph model.

A distinction I used to make when I was teaching this stuff: on your filesystem tree, on Unix names (labels) are on the links (arrows), while on DOS/Windows names are on nodes (boxes).

If you want to explore a tag-based system, take a look at https://www.tagspaces.org/

The quickest workaround – and the most satisfactory one to boot – is to abandon Windows Media Player. Use a digital asset management app like TagSpaces.

TagSpaces: TagSpaces is a cross-platform tagging and organizing tool that can help you tag and manage your files and folders. It supports various file formats and can be used with local and cloud storage providers.

If the naming convention is different, or you'd prefer to go the tagging route, tagspaces may be your best bet. It can use standard tags in the file, or a sidecar file (file with the same name, but different extension next to the original file) to keep tags with the file.

Agreed. Why not use the filesystem as the database that it is? Modern filesystems support tags or extended attributes that could be used to implement tags. Failing that, just encode tags in the filename. Document management tools could then use the filesystem as the source of truth.