On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 17:50:08 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

On 2/6/2016 4:18 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 17:02:50 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:08:06 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

On 2/6/2016 10:48 AM, philo wrote:
I was not terribly interested in computers at all until I got into digital
photography. Though I am not usually an early adapter, I started in the year
2000 when it became affordable.

The "value" of a digital photograph completely escaped my notice
until a neighbor, in passing, said, "Why don't you just send
him a photo of it?" (something I was describing to a colleague
in email exchanges).

This had to be the biggest "D'oh!" moment in my life! Cripes, how
incredibly obvious!! :

Now, whenever I disassemble something, I take copious photos at
each stage of the process -- don't have to EVER print any of them!
Don't even have to take them off the camera! Just browse through
them while REassembling and delete when done!

Huge time saver as I repair lots of kit for friends and neighbors.
Keeping track of which screw came out of which hole is a real
challenge, otherwise!

SWMBO takes large numbers of (casual) photos -- mainly to capture
textures and shadows as potential subjects for her artwork. But,
then is faced with the daunting task of TRACKING and ORGANIZING
all of those photos (e.g., she may take 100 snapshots over the
course of a 3 hour hike -- and do that once or twice a week!)

I have thousands of technical documents -- but they are relatively easily
organized. How the hell do you file a photo of an eagle purched on
a dead branch overlooking some rapids? Wildlife? Birds? Water?
Season? etc.

At least if *I* go looking for a particular document, I have a pretty
good idea of where it *might* be stored...

The trick with pictures is to sort the good ones out right away and
put them away in a predictable place but I still keep all of my raw
images, sorted by the date they were taken. (done by the camera)
I know a guy who indexes ALL of his pictures, music, and videos in a
SQL database. so he can say he wants a western released in 1946 with
John Wayne in it, and he will get a list of all thet fit, or pictures
of birds by a river in newfoundland - and if there are any they will
pop up. Means he needs to catalog/index them as he saves them

Could be who wearing colour where when and
have
wife bathing suit red hawaii 1896
daughter cat suit greenbostonhalloween
1983

You can only do this to the extent you can ANTICIPATE the FUTURE
search criteria that will be of interest to you!

What invariably happens (with ANYTHING that you have to "categorize"
at time of "filing") is that the categories you have fill up with
more and more items. Then, you decide to further refine the
categories so there is more detail exposed in the categories themselves.

That leaves you with the problem of "how should I deal with the
items previously categorized?" -- esp given that it will usually
be a significant effort to "re-sort" them.

E.g., I originally lumped all of my books on "programming languages"
into a "programming languages" category. As the number of titles
grew, I realized I needed to subdivide this into individual languages.

Thankfully, this type of sort could be performed simply by inspecting the
titles and drag-and-drop to the appropriate folders.

But, how do you deal with things like "programming databases in C++"?
Does it go under "C++"? Or, "Databases"? Or "Programming"?
That's the beauty of a sql database - it can go in all 3.