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A lot of people do it by date like you propose but for me I may not recall the year but I certainly can recall the event or subject. The main difference between my structure and yours is yours is date/year based where mine is subject based. And it is not beholden to proprietary database or application for sorting and finding my photo. The advantages of it is that it is operating system independent so I can copy the structure to Mac, Window, Linux, etc. I use a simple folder structure like you are proposing.

How do you organize your images?ĭT users - how do you export your processed images and sidecar info into your source folder? I really don't shoot that many images at the moment, but I'm sure many of you take thousands in a year. If I decide to upload an image to Filckr, I'd just copy the processed image and place it into a Flickr Uploads folder just to keep track. I think I would like to have each subject in its own place. Right now I have to go through several folders to find stuff and its a pain! The only thing I have to figured out is how to save my newly processed image, along with the sidecar file into it's original, source folder.

the tags would be useful for a more refined search using DT later. I like the idea that you can create tag presets that can label one or several images at a time. Using DT, I would import, then rate/cull/tag/ and process the images. I figure this will quickly get my images on my hard drive, generally sorted, ready for import into DT. As an example Photos/2021/3 - Air and Space Museum.

This folder will have parent folders by year, I would just add my newly created Year/Month/Day/Description folders in the year parent folder. Once they are organized, I will place them in my master Photos folder. This is just pure grab similar things and stuff them in a sub folder that describes them. Go through the images and sort them to the sub folder(s). But I need a better up-front system.ġ) I have a Sort folder - this is where all photos will be downloaded from my memory card or camera.Ģ) Inside the Sort folder, create sub folders with the structure Year-Month-Day- Description. Nice that I can enter a tag, and if DT can find it, it will load the photo. I will tag by location and or subject mostly, but have started adding more tags as I go. I like the idea that Darktable has a tagging feature, and I use it. I'm home recovering from a surgery and it seems the perfect time to come up with a system that will allow me to sort and store my images for easy search and retrieval. So I'm finding out (way too late) my organization system stinks.