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TMSU is a tool for tagging your files

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Re: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files

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Post by pronaway »

slackson wrote: post #9

I remember looking at this a few years ago. My main reason for not using it was the time it would have taken to tag all my files. Basically, if you have so many files that it's worth tagging them, you need to spend a lot of time tagging, and if you have so few that it's reasonable to tag them all, you don't need this system. If you have a manageable number but expect tagging to be useful in the near future, then this…

Throwaway, but I've used it to organize downloaded porn. Downloaded videos tend to have terrible filenames, but reasonable titles or tags on the website. I have some scripts to scan through the filenames and automatically apply tags, but for the most part it still goes unused. It's a fun idea though.

Re: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files

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Post by dagw »

Yizahi wrote: post #22
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #16

Tags or folders - Aren't both of them mere kludges that we use when search isn't good enough?

Search doesn't help when you don't remember filename.

In an ideal world it should be enough to remember a couple of key words in the file, and possibly some relevant metadata.

In an even more ideal world I should be able to search for "all pictures of my daughter from last Christmas, unless they are out of focus".

Re: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files

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Post by Immortalin »

sebastianavina wrote: post #10
slackson wrote: post #9

I remember looking at this a few years ago. My main reason for not using it was the time it would have taken to tag all my files. Basically, if you have so many files that it's worth tagging them, you need to spend a lot of time tagging, and if you have so few that it's reasonable to tag them all, you don't need this system. If you have a manageable number but expect tagging to be useful in the near future, then this…

I have a library of a lot of ebooks about a lot of subjects, I order them by folders, but is very common to have interesections on the topics they cover. I could tag all them with the folder name, and then manually tag the subtopics each book covers. edit: too bad it isn't on ubuntu repositories. I've a personal policy to avoid programs outside the repositories

Try Calibre for managing ebooks, it has a built-in tag system.

Re: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files

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Post by sanswork »

I'm currently working on https://keepallthethings.com which offers a similar service only web based with a GUI so it will either be more useful or less for you depending on your use case. If anyone wants to try it out go through the sign up process until you hit the credit card form and stop then send me an email(in my profile) and I'll set you up with a free account. Its just launched so there are a lot of features still on the roadmap instead of implemented but it'd be nice to have other peoples feed back/ideas for improvements as I go.

Re: TMSU is a tool for tagging your files

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Post by agumonkey »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #18
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #16

Tags or folders - Aren't both of them mere kludges that we use when search isn't good enough?

Folders/directories are a necessity as long as we continue to distribute collections of files the way we do. I'm not sure what github would look like in a world without directories, nor how file naming would work. Do you have a proposal for the issues that doing away with directories brings up?

Folders are only a human factor necessity. Tags forming a graph of related files are more capable, but harder to manage mentally since they can reach any part of the system and cross boundaries.
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