supertag VS tagctl

I'm writing another script to turn the metadata into tags and import it to TagSpaces, wutag, dolphin, TMSU, Supertag.

You could look into projects like https://amoffat.github.io/supertag/

I wrote Supertag[0] specifically to get the same kind of ergonomics with tags as you get with folders. Basically you can dynamically render sub-folders based on the tags that apply to your current selection.

Example: /A/B contains the intersection of tags A and B. If sub-folder C exists underneath /A/B, it's because one of the files in the intersection also has tag C.

0. https://amoffat.github.io/supertag/

I'm the author of Supertag, which is what you might be talking about. https://github.com/amoffat/supertag

I found Baloo really neat when I was getting into file tags and made a command line program to add/remove tags that play well with Baloo. I never did integrate tags into my normal routine, though, and haven't used Baloo much since then, since I live in the terminal so much and just use fd and Neovim's Telescope for so much of my file finding.

If anyone wants to add tags via the terminal, here's an option

Never used tags in Dolphin so I'm not 100% sure but it looks like they just use the user.xdg.tags xattr. So any program to change xattrs could work. But there are also specific programs like https://gitlab.com/KodyVB/tagctl

Baloo tracks files with the user.xdg.tags extended attribute, making them searchable via baloosearch tag: and Dolphin under the magnifying glass and "Add tags" (you'll need to open a new instance/tab of Dolphin if you add the first tag, otherwise it'll stay grayed out). You can add tags via Dolphin's right-click menu, F11 preview pane, alt+return properties menu, Gwenview, tagctl, and possibly other methods I don't know about.

KDE uses the user.xdg.tags extended attribute and Baloo, the file indexer. It's integrated into Dolphin, Gwenview, and probably some other KDE apps. If you want to add/remove tags via the command line, I created tagctl for that.

I created a program in Rust, named tagctl, which adds tags to names as well as extended attributes in compliance with the standards that KDE and Baloo use.