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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 / 17 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 / 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: about 1 year ago
+1 on the need for non-Spotlight options. Source code makes a mess of spotlight for everyday usage. I like Leap a lot for multimedia browsing with more precise search capabilities than spotlight: https://ironicsoftware.com/leap/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Just use tags for everything and don’t worry that much about the file hierarchy. This will let you take advantage of automatic downloading systems like the apps that DriveThruRPG and itch provide. Point Leap at your collection and use it to find stuff. Source: over 1 year ago
You might also look into Leap for tracking/tagging stuff. Source: over 1 year ago
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