Based on our record, TMSU should be more popular than Apse. It has been mentiond 19 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
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 / about 1 month 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 / 8 months ago
And what led me to build [TMSU](https://tmsu.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 8 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: 11 months ago
The TMSU Nautilus Extension seems to require you to install the command-line tool TMSU (a tool to tag files). Source: over 1 year ago
Hey, I’ve been building that. It’s called A Personal Search Engine: https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
A paid tool in this direction is APSE (https://apse.io) which bills itself as a personal search engine that OCRs intermittent screencaps. I loved the idea, but in practice it lacked polish. I agree that additional metadata like foremost application filepath/url would take this to another level. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I’ve been working on exactly that! [0] My info is in my hn profile, if you (or anyone reading) would like to chat about it. [0] https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I’ve been working on a very similar thing which runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Maybe APSE is what you're looking for [1]. A while back the founder sent me a link after one of my blog posts hit HN. It's a tool that continuously records your desktop and offers text search of everything through OCR. I personally found the idea interesting, but I was too afraid to ever try it out. The mere idea of a video record existing of everything that's going on on my computer, even if it's never... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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