vanCoochee wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:08 pm
Well ditto, I obviously spend too much time with my collection as well, and it's fun to see you so enthusiastic about it!
Your notes are useful, especially the namespaces (do you prefix each sub-attr, or does hydrus allow sub-tags?).
...
but 
: Let's say you added a bunch of "bikini"-tags, then decide tankinis or certain underwear are kinda the same (and you don't want to fitler all of those explicitly when searching/browsing) ... how do you do it?
1. rename the tag (search-and-replace-style)
2. super-group the tag ("namespace" it)
3. some kind of hack: bookmark the filter...
This
one problem with evolving material
and preferences/look-on-things that even I experienced (with my plain hierachical folders).
What are some other experiences you made and problems you solved organizing your collection?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by sub-tags but maybe
parent-child tags are what you mean. If a child tag is used, a parent tag will be added automatically. Say I tag something with "crop top", then I set it so that "midriff" will also be added.
I noticed that I kind of gave a bad example for
namespaces with "cum:xxx" because they are not related to the cum category I mentioned before that, I just made them related by using the same name. Namespaces just represent
a category of tags. Useful for searching and filtering, for example "cum:*anything*" gives me all the files that have a cum namespace tag. If I then invert that search while also searching for "category:cum" (!cum:*anything* AND category:cum), I get all the cum files I haven't properly tagged yet and still need work on.
Now if you want to merge multiple tags you could
sibling them. You set multiple tags you want to replace and then a single tag you want to replace them with. So everywhere you'd usually see "tankini" you'd now see "bikini" displayed. The "tankini" still exists, it just won't be shown to you that way. Depending on how fine you are with the thought of cluttered tags and what I call "legacy tags" you can just do it that way.
OR if it's something you know you'll never need again I'd just do a simple search and replace by searching for that tag, selecting all, and deleting the old tag and entering the new one.
It is noteworthy that it's currently not possible to simply rename a namespace, you'd have to do the search and replace one by one for every tag belonging to that namespace.
Bookmarking the search wouldn't be that useful since you'd have to add "bikini AND tankini" to every other search you'd want to include it in.
Adding them to namespaces would be useful If you see a place for having "swimwear:xxx" or "attire:xxx" tags. But not really if you want to get rid of the tankini tag because then you'd kind of mix them in with bikinis and could just as well replace them.
Regarding other problems I have solved, I'm just gonna list some of them:
‣ Easily getting rid of duplicates with the duplicacate filter that presents you similar images or sometimes even cropped versions, which you can then compare and keep the better one. Tags are automatically transfered and the other image deleted.
‣ While browsing the internet, I use an addon called "save as" that quickly lets me save an image in a list of predetermined folders. I then use those folders called like "tease" "cum" "non-nude" upon importing them to Hydrus to automatically tag the files according to the folder names. This way I always have my pictures immediately categorized which saves some of the work.
‣ Sometimes I browse 4chan /s/ or /gif/ and if I see a nice thread I can paste the link into a download watcher that downloads them all and then periodically checks the thread for new images to download. I then use the archive/delete filter that quickly goes through all the images and decide which ones to keep or to delete with a single button press.
‣ Here's the biggest one by far: For my anime collection I used to save images on reddit while browsing, then copy the link to
https://saucenao.com/ to find the original source, then download them ideally from pixiv, and then tag them with like character, series, etc. And this is quite the work if you have lots of images to go through. In comes the
Hydrus Companion. This nifty browser addon can search on saucenao directly from the context menu, let me select multiple pixiv, twitter, booru etc tabs and import them into hydrus while fetching all the tags if there are any, saving a shit ton of work.
Oh one more thing before I finish this unexpectedly rather long post. If you're looking for inspiration or different ways to tag your pictures, I found
this list to be quite useful. Despite it being for anime, most principles still apply for irl pictures.
All in all using Hydrus made me actually really enjoy my collection which in hindsight used to feel more like collecting just for the sake of collecting since I never really got to the enjoying part of freely browsing my whole collection. And there's this sort of satisfaction from scrolling through my pictures ordered from small to gigantic boobs right in front of me, that having them in folders just doesn't give me
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