gallery organisation woes .

[kossai]

this is for , specifically , private collection of photographs and art pieces which save from online .
never really have good idea on how to organise these , but especially now after try several things and all fail .

problem is that want both hyper-specific tags , but also need to be accessible in file system directly and easily . love to tag these pictures for exact contents , so that picture of rabbit in rainy field of roses is easy to find under rabbits and roses and rain , but even something like hydrus where this is extremely easy to set up is too much of barrier to then go and search . out of sight , out of mind , basically .

so need organisation ... but within limits of file explorer . and then have to make choices :

• dump everything into one folder ? but then everything is hard to find .
• make compromises as to where each picture belong ? rabbit can either be with animals , or with flowers , but not both - really do not want to have duplicate files ... theoretically could use symlinks to deal with that , but symlinks do not back up onto flash drive , which is another really important point .
• make hyper-specific folders ? this could work with single focal points - folder for sunflowers , folder for lilies - but get out of hand for basically anything else .
• put tags into file names ? but this is fucking unsightly and get hard to navigate . plus , already use file names for original source ( if known ) ...
• mix approaches ? but then need to figure out where to draw lines . which things get broad folder , and which ones get specific folder ? which ones get tags and why ?

bahhhh . pain .