[CoLoCo] Looking for a good file tagger for Ubuntu?

[Scott Scriven]

* Ringo <ringo at coimc.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for a program to help organize all my files as I've 
> got a lot of them. For a long time I've been putting things in 
> a huge folder hierarchy and using that to keep track of them, 
> but it's no longer good enough.

Personally, I just use symlinks when I want to organize 
files/dirs into multiple "views".  For example, 
~/music/by_genre/*/* links to entries in ~/music/by_artist/* so I 
can group songs in multiple ways with basic command line tools.

Of course, that said, I don't find it sufficient for things like 
photos, and I have been working on a project to give me more 
filesystem features, like hierarchic tagging, subfiles, and 
inheritance.  Don't hold your breath though; it's a long-term 
project.

> Basically, I'm looking for a program that can keep a db of 
> files that I add various tags to. This is similar to a photo 
> management program where you can say "2008" and "Guatemala" and 
> "Old camera".

Have you tried "tracker"?  (tracker, tracker-search-tool, 
tracker-utils)  http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/


-- Scott