my-photo-timeline
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photo organizing cli
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#2,456of 3,028 in 2020
Top 82%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 1 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful for someone with a similar need to sort photos from phones
From 1 comment
I've been looking for something like this for a while to organise photos from my phone, also without success. I hold all my photos locally and then securely sync them to a remote…
richardhawthorn on HN
Objections
Exiftool already does this with a one-line command
From 2 comments
Exiftool does it for years
runariot on HNhttps://exiftool.org/filename.html Check 2nd and 6th sample... exiftool -d %Y-%m-%d "-directory<datetimeoriginal" image.jpg Move 'image.jpg' into a directory with a name given by…
runariot on HN
Metadata timezone and tag inconsistency make dates unreliable
From 2 comments
What naming structure are you looking for? The biggest problem I have found is that there are so many metadata tags, with many different formats, which complicates taking the…
AlexITC on HNSuch album format is actually quite similar to what the app does, its trivial to add an option to allow that. Another problem I have with metadata (usually while dealing with…
AlexITC on HN
Requests
Support for other album folder naming structures
From 2 comments
I've been looking for something like this for a while to organise photos from my phone, also without success. I hold all my photos locally and then securely sync them to a remote…
richardhawthorn on HNI have the same problem. I personally just chunk all my photos into albums like this ... 2019q4 2020q1 2020q2 2020q3 2020q4 it is too hard with 10+ years of photos to maintain…
BorisMelnik on HN
Questions
How does it compare to PhotoStructure
From 1 comment
How does this compare to PhotoStructure[0]? [0]: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/
bradknowles on HN
Alternatives named
PhotoStructure
From 2 comments
How does this compare to PhotoStructure[0]? [0]: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/
bradknowles on HNMany things are different. * This tool is designed to do one task, once: move photos from one directory structure, into another directory structure. It has no state persistence,…
mceachen on HN
ExifTool
From 2 comments
Exiftool does it for years
runariot on HNhttps://exiftool.org/filename.html Check 2nd and 6th sample... exiftool -d %Y-%m-%d "-directory<datetimeoriginal" image.jpg Move 'image.jpg' into a directory with a name given by…
runariot on HN