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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.
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zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
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Calibre Web
:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
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Lychee
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos. (by LycheeOrg)
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obsidian-webpage-export
Export html from single files, canvas pages, or whole vaults. Direct access to the exported HTML files allows you to publish your digital garden anywhere. Focuses on flexibility, features, and style parity.
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Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)
You should definitely check out Tropy: https://tropy.org/
It's open-source, so no worries about a company shutting it down, and it handles a lot of the stuff you're asking for. It’s designed for organizing and managing research photos, but it has features that fit archival needs pretty well.
Open and future-proof: Metadata is stored in JSON-LD, so even if Tropy disappears, your data isn’t locked up. It doesn’t modify your files either, so your originals are safe.
Flexible metadata: You can assign custom dates (even imprecise ones like "circa 1920" or a date range) and add other metadata fields to fit your needs. It’s not tied to EXIF or file timestamps, which is a big plus.
Related files: Tropy lets you group multiple images (e.g., front and back of a photo or parts of a large scanned image) into a single "item." Relationships are preserved, and you can see them all in the same context.
Search and organization: It’s way better than just dumping files into a folder. You get tags, categories, and a solid search interface to make your archive usable.
- Tropy: Explore Your Research Photos
- Tropy – Explore your research photos
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Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management solution insid}e Zotero
Yeah, I just stumbled upon this project and wanted to share, I'm currently using Obsidian for my personal wiki, but I use Zotero a lot as a paper repo and reader, the organization and metadata tools are great, and extending it to a more powerful note-taking tool seems like a no-brainer.
Now it just needs an EPUB reader to replace Calibre, then it'd just be the perfect all-in-one personal library. For now I'm using this plugin that exports and keeps in sync the calibre library to Zotero:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3339191
Very grateful that this open source project stays alive, I've seen attempts over the years from startups and other projects to tackle on spaces like pkm, research, paperless office, to then be abandoned yet Zotero keeps getting updates.
There's also Tropy, from the same organization that develops Zotero, for organizing digital assets:
https://tropy.org/
Getting a bit off-topic, but this thing could use some sort of Moodboard designer to visually sort the assets in a canvas, kind of what you can do with Miro, Notion, Mural or locally with Obsidian Canvas/Excalidraw. On that note,
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Image Organizer with Tag "categories"?
here: https://tropy.org/
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Best way to organize old photos
I'm personally a big fan of digitizing as you go, since that is ultimately what is going to make the images the most accessible for you and your family. Even if you aren't going to make high resolution scans, a cell phone image of the photo provides a great opportunity to compile notes and related resources in a more accessible digital format. A resource I can highly recommend is called Tropy (https://tropy.org/), a free program created specifically to assist in organizing and arranging photographs and research notes. You can include granular information such as the box and folder the item is located in, transcriptions and captions for the images, and even tag and link related materials (such as tagging by surname, linking census records, and grouping images together like pages of a photo album or front and back of documents).
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About archiving my analog Zettelkasten
One idea to store pictures of an analog Zettelkasten: Tropy - it's a side project to Zotero. https://tropy.org/
- Thoughts on managing a shared digital "archive" for the family?
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PSA: Bing Image Creator only saves a limited number of your created images
So if you like an image, save it somewhere together with the prompt. I'm using Lightroom. Tropy is a free option that should be good too.
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