Looking for a Picture Management Program#

[Chris G]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:53:12PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:49:03PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> >> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I know digikam has other 'views' (by date and by collection) but using
> >> > these you lose all of the album names.  I want to be able to name my
> >> > albums with meaningful names (e.g. "Spain, holiday") but keep them in
> >> > chronological order.  This seems such an obvious thng to want to do
> >> > that it amazes me that there isn't an image management program out
> >> > there that can do it.
> >> 
> >> Have you tried tagging the pictures?  WhenI look at my tags in digiKam,
> >> I get it by tag, and sub view by album name and date.
> >> 
> > I do use tagging in digikam but I don't see how it helps much in
> > getting what I want as described above.
> >
> > Are you suggesting that I tag images with their date or what exactly?
> >
> > For example if I want to see pictures/images for, say, October 1987
> > how would I tag them so that I see that in October 1987 I have images for:-
> >
> >     The horses in the orchard
> >     Holiday in Venice
> >     Maxine for publicity
> >
> > ?
> 
> Sorry, I think I misunderstood what you wanted in terms of wanting
> albums.
> 
> The way I set it up is that I just removed the concept of albums, and I
> just tag everything.
> So I would tag something like Places, London, Big Ben for instance.
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> When I got to the My Dates tab, I do get it sorted by albums and dates.
> So, if I click on a year/month, I get all the albums that have pictures
> for that date.  Isn't that what you are looking for?
> 
What I'm looking for is a tree structure of albums that I create myself,
the top level of the hierarchy is years, i.e. I have albums (with no
images directly in them) called 1960, 1961, 1962, etc.

Then, within those year albums I want to create albums with images in
them that have names of my choice, e.g. in 1964 I have:-

    East Anglian Churches   
    Miscellaneous   
    Riding Holiday - North Pickenham    
    Cottage holiday   
    Barnet   
    St Albans School - End of term (?)   
    Cottage holiday   

... and I want them to appear in that order as it's chronological. 
Currently they're actually called:-

    00 East Anglian Churches
    00 Miscellaneous
    04  Riding Holiday - North Pickenham
    04 Cottage holiday
    07 Barnet
    07 St Albans School - End of term (?)
    08 Cottage holiday

Where the numbers are the months but it's ugly/inelegant.

Digikam's albums with "View - Sort Albums - By Folder" gives me the
layout I want but I want a date (or manual) sort order of albums
rather than alphabetical.

-- 
Chris Green