An OS-independent file tagging mechanism to make file & photo storage useful, portable, structured & lightweight.

Files & photos can be:

• tagged with multiple values
• queried by tags
• with a solution that can be backed up with files themselves
• in a lightweight and portable way
• that scales to large photo or file collections

go install github.com/samxsmith/tagger

• tagger init to initialise the current directory with a .tags file
• tagger add $FILENAME tag1 tag2 tag3 ... to add tags to a file
• tagger get-files tag1 tag3 to query for all files with that tag, recursively through the file structure from the current directory
• tagger list-tags to list all tags recursively.

photos/
  wedding_photo.jpg
  holiday_photo.jpg
  sub_dir/
    dog_and_me.jpg
    flower.jpg

Add tags

$ cd photos
$ tagger init
$ tagger add wedding_photo.jpg person:me person:spouse
$ tagger add holiday_photo person:spouse location:italy
$ tagger add sub_dir/dog_and_me.jpg location:home person:me person:dog
$ tagger add sub_dir/flower.jpg location:home

Query for files

$ tagger gf person:me

# photos with me in
wedding_photo.jpg
sub_dir/dog_and_me.jpg


$ tagger gf person:*

# photos with anyone in
wedding_photo.jpg
holiday_photo.jpg
sub_dir/dog_and_me.jpg

$ tagger gf person:spouse person:me

# photos with me & spouse in
wedding_photo.jpg