Hi, In my search for a digital asset manager (DAM), or document management system, I ran into Tracker. Because the documentation for non-development users is a bit scarce I'd like to ask a few questions about it. What I'm looking for is a flexible way to organize and search within my documents, actual digital text documents and scans of physical ones. It's just for personal use but existing DAM solutions are basically all overkill. They all seem to aim at large user groups, introducing central servers, sharing options, complex categorization, etc. The features Tracker provides are quite close to what I'm looking for. It indexes documents, allows tagging for categorization and provides means to search for them in different ways. What it lacks, or at least what I was not able to find, is a bit more structure and some additional features: - Limit its indexing to a specific set of folders and/or documents - Limit its search to specific documents only without the need to build complex search queries each time - Provide a list of (manually) applied tags usable as filters instead of having to remember and search for them individually and manually - Create a nested tagging structure - Mass-tagging of documents using new and existing tags - Date filters (document creation, digitally as well as physically) It basically comes down to Shotwell on steroids with Tracker as its base. Because Tracker already comes quit close, I wonder if there's already an alternative GUI available or plug-ins that provide the functionality above. Does it exist? If not, has it been proposed before and to what extend would it fit in the Tracker project? Do you know of any available alternatives if Tracker is not fit for this purpose? I hope you can enlighten me a bit. Yours, Age Bosma
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