>>7638664I have the same problem
>There are too many categories and still I come across so many that I don't know how to catalogue and need to create another category.Yeah it's really frustrating.
Let's say I have folders set up like this:
>Animals>-----Cats>-----DogsWhat do I do if I have a wallpaper with a cat AND a dog?
Putting it in both would waste a lot of space since most wallpapers fit into multiple categories.
Putting it in a folder for multiple animals feels inelegant because shouldn't I find walls with cats in the cat folder?
A tag-based solution like Hydrus
>>7639069 >>7639098 solves these folder-based problems extremely well, but introduces a new problem: assignment of tags. I haven't tried it myself yet but it looks like you have to add tags manually, which would take forever initially and potentially in the future was well if you ever wanted to add a new tag category.
Let's say we add a bunch of tags to all of our thousands of walls but later want a tag for walls that have phones. We'd have to go through our entire collection again and tag all the walls with phones, and what if we wanted not just a tag for phones but a tag for cell phones, phone booths, landlines, etc.
I believe there's another image tagging database called Digikam or something like that that has some automatic tagging features for things like color, so I was more interested in that, but I don't think it has robust automatic object detection so it's still somewhat crude.
Compared to folders, tags are much more comprehensive, but the current implementations of tags are still too far from a perfect solution for me to feel great about them. That's why I've been thinking about building a neural network to automatically tag my walls
