Szurubooru VS TMSU

I've been accumulating art and pictures downloaded from the internet, what's a good way to store and tag them with the original artist and source? Maybe a simple solution would be just adding appropriate EXIF data to the files? This approach would still require a good folder structure to make sense of. Another option I came across was https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/index.html, but after trying it, the... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Also agree with hydrus network. Im at 18million items. next best thing is probably something like a selfhosted booru server so that you can remotely organize files during your downtime on the toilet or jury duty. Source: 10 months ago

I'm your savior, together with https://github.com/rr-/szurubooru. Source: 10 months ago

I am trying to code a script that will help me post data to the [szurubooru](https://github.com/rr-/szurubooru) image board instance. And the plan is convert this into an iOS/macOS Shortcut so I can upload files. Source: about 1 year ago

On unraid postgres is used by szurubooru, mealie, and grafana. I don't know specifically what but I know redis is also used by one of the apps in the cloud group as well. Source: over 1 year ago

You may want to try TagSpaces https://www.tagspaces.org/ or TMSU https://tmsu.org/ which provide mechanisms for managing tags of arbitrary files (not only EXIF or ID3 ones). - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

The author of TMSU left a sibling comment to yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507343 > TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program. > TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever you put... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

And what led me to build [TMSU](https://tmsu.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

I haven't used this myself, but I saw a recent announcement here about https://github.com/vifon/tmsu.el#features by /u/vifon which lets you tag files (with https://tmsu.org/ ) from dired, perhaps it would be possible to add features on top of that to colour based on tags? (e.g. Tagging "red" would colour it red). Source: 10 months ago

The TMSU Nautilus Extension seems to require you to install the command-line tool TMSU (a tool to tag files). Source: about 1 year ago