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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mike3996" data-source="post: 372953" data-attributes="member: 13646">My workflow since 2017:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Import raw files from the SD cards into directory structure "/pics/2020-02-20-beach-walk" for example. If I shot several cameras during that walk, I import them into the same directory.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Edit and process in Darktable. I import the entire directory as a filmroll (Darktable terminology) and I'll rate, reject, PP and export things as I see fit.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">My starring process goes like: 2/5 is the default, 3/5+ is a good picture and 1/5 is not particularly good but I wouldn't delete it. 0/5 or rejected pictures (Darktable terminology)  are either technically failed or duplicates, in the sense if I shoot 20 frames of a <a href="https://cameraderie.org/threads/show-birds.278/post-372802">stationary swan</a>, I'll keep 2-3 frames and reject the ones that are the same.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Usually I plain DELETE the rejected files.</li> </ol>The exports are low-res ones and go mainly into this forum and occasionally to family or  flickr/ipernity. I usually empty the export directories and no exported results remain. Only the raw files.So this leaves me with very little about managing pics, organizing them by themes or anything like that.In Linux, the choices for DAM are poor. I would regard something like LR the gold standard but when it's not available then it's not available. As such I'm currently tinkering with a simple idea for a project, where I capture everything darktable or equivalent exports and my program will collect them into a database where pictures can be searched, tagged, named, described. I am envisioning a simple app where there's nothing else but a gallery view and a collection of search tools. Think "Gmail".</blockquote>

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