Comments for Personal tagging at home?

Comment from Frank Patrick on 2005-08-29

2005-08-29T12:48:46Z

Assuming you're using Windows, Jack, my advice is to get yourself a Mac.

The combination of iPhoto's keywords (tags) and the OSX Spotlight search tool works very nicely, thank you very much. That Spotlight desktop search is turning into the most useful addition from OSX Tiger for me.

Perhaps Google desktop search can see into the guts of whatever photo software you're using, assuming it allows some sort of keywording/tagging. Perhaps not. Or maybe wait for Longhorn/Vista.

Comment from jackvinson on 2005-08-29

2005-08-29T14:46:05Z

Oh, no! Not the dreaded "get a Mac" response. :-)

One can apply keywords to pictures in the Windows environment, and presumably the desktop search tools would deal with this. But, the interface for doing this is completely useless: right click on the picture, get its properties, select the Summary tab and edit the keywords.

Test: I've just added keywords to a picture and rebuilt the Lookout index. Lookout doesn't see the keywords.

Comment from thaddaeus on 2005-08-29

2005-08-29T20:27:07Z

You might want to try Google's Picasa Photo Management tool. It allows you to tag your photos the way you want to; having multiple tags/keywords for each photo is possible and there are tons of other features.

Hope that helps.

Comment from Jack on 2005-08-29

2005-08-29T22:10:37Z

I second the vote for picasa, though for this to work, you have to tag everything...

Comment from jackvinson on 2005-08-29

2005-08-30T03:49:55Z

Unfortunately, Picassa doesn't let me do things like finding all pictures I've labelled with both "Jack" and "Graham." And their label browser isn't much more better than the folder / time browser, since it is just an (unsortable!) list of labels.

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2005-08-30T10:17:16Z

"Oh, Lazyweb, I am curious to know: Has anyone come up with a tagging tool for personal use?" - asks JackAnd he gets the "use a Mac" response, which is fine, but kind of a costly solution. Anyway, there's a... [Read More]

Comment from Matthew Cornell on 2005-08-30

2005-08-30T23:22:52Z

I think the personal tagging issue is a big one, and one that's not yet been addressed at the OS level. The BE OS had a relational database available for tagging each file, I believe. Also, Oracle has their Internet File System, and MS has been working on WinFS for a while, but it's still in development. I wrote a few posts on using wiki words and simple text files for managing personal information, if anyone's interested (links below).

matt

Photo Blogs, Wikis, and Memories for Life
http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2005/04/photo-blogs-wikis-and-memories-for.html

My Big-Arse Text File - a Poor Man's Wiki+Blog+PIM
http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2005/08/my-big-arse-text-file-poor-mans.html

Comment from Lilia on 2005-09-01

2005-09-01T06:39:36Z

Flickr them :) Unfortunately it doesn't save the problem of having photos indexed locally...

Comment from Paul on 2005-09-01

2005-09-01T11:02:21Z

Try this flexible file renamer. I try and name all of my photo files with the names of people in them and include the date taken. This utility makes it a snap to do this on groups of files. And you won't have to rely on any custom software.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/