tagging pictures or quick change of the destination folder

[sityu]

I've been using the camera of my phablet for several different reasons. E.g.: work, family, hobbies, misc. etc.
But the pictures are stored continously on the phone and on the cloud drives, also.
You have to assort them later.
Earlier, when you had to download the files from sd cards manually, it was easy to assort the files.
But nowadays it's quite easy to use automatic camera uploads. You just take the pictures, and the rest is automatic. After taking hundreds (or thousands) of pictures, it's a time consuming task to organize this bulk of files.

It would be far more easier if the pictures got the proper tag while taking them. (you can choose the type of picture before or right after the shooting)

The possible solutions:

1. tagging (it would be the best; jpg files can have multiple tags);
2. custom file name prefixes;

To show, how (I think) it could work:
[dropbox folder with the pictures]
see attachments!

[sityu]

This tagging would be a unique feature.

There's not a single app on the market, which could do it. Only some file managers has this feature.
I don't really know the reason: on the websites the tagging is one of the most common features; the jpg specification has the option of tagging; the ms windows' (stock) file explorer also has the ability to manage the jpg tags; tagging makes quite easy to organize the pictures.
The easiest way to tag pictures is tagging them right when taken.

So why there's no tagging feature in camera apps??

I know, this is not the killer and most wanted feature; but it would be a very useful one.

[Mark]

I've added this to my todo. Just to clarify, do you know what the Exif tag in question is for this - http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/EXIF.html suggests XPKeywords (and it looks like this is what Windows Explorer uses for the tags field).

[sityu]

I think the xmp tags are.

Here is a sample of my xml tags of a jpg file created by my samsung note 3:
The tags were added by windows7 file explorer.

<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/"></x:xmpmeta>

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
    <rdf:Description rdf:about="uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"/>
    <rdf:Description rdf:about="uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b" xmlns:MicrosoftPhoto="http://ns.microsoft.com/photo/1.0/"/>
        <rdf:Description rdf:about="uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
            <dc:subject>
                <rdf:Bag xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
                    <rdf:li>főépítész</rdf:li>
                    <rdf:li>munka</rdf:li>
                </rdf:Bag>
            </dc:subject>
        </rdf:Description>
        <rdf:Description rdf:about="uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b" xmlns:MicrosoftPhoto="http://ns.microsoft.com/photo/1.0/">
            <MicrosoftPhoto:LastKeywordXMP>
                <rdf:Bag xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
                    <rdf:li>főépítész</rdf:li>
                    <rdf:li>munka</rdf:li>
                </rdf:Bag>
            </MicrosoftPhoto:LastKeywordXMP>
        </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

The file had 2 tags: "főépítész", "munka".

[Mark]

Thanks for the info. XMP isn't currently supported by Open Camera, but it's on my todo (it would be needed for support for RAW PNGs, as EXIF only work with JPEGs), so I'll bear this in mind for when I add it.

[sityu]

Sorry for the multiple posting!
Do you see the post(s) waiting for moderation? (with xml code in it)

Please feel free to delete the unneccessary copies! (and this post, too)

[Anonymous]

Hi
Almoust one year after write this post, I join to this.
This is great idea write some data in "jpg" by taggin, during take a photo.
Maybe process to making photo will extend, but job finally will completed

if You thought about this, try do something, to implement tagging.
Best regards.

[sityu]

The extra process doesn't need too much extra time: just tapping to the tag area, and select the checkboxes of the tags (or adding a new tag to the tag-list). And until the next changes, this will be the default taglist for the picures to be taken.
Most of the time you take several pictures in a row.
And the exif-tagging seems to be the most convenient way, because the desktop file managers can easily recognize and handle them. (the windows file e.g. by default, without any additional software)
The custom filename-prefixes have limitations in size, and getting messy if you add several tags.
And the proposed appearance on the camera screen should be optional (in the settings there should be an option to show it or not).

[Anonymous]

Hi
Try play with app that name is "Fast photo notes pro".
It is what You looking for.

[cpo]

I would like this functionality so that there is a prompt for adding tags or description (write EXIF data) immediately after taking the photo. No apps that I've found do this as far as I can tell. Fast photo notes app doesn't do this, it doesn't modify the jpg files, it only created an additional file with notes. F-Stop Gallery by Seelye Engineering or Let's tag it by Rnt seem to be closer to what I'm looking for. These two apps don't recognize each others tags for some reason. Does anyone know of an app that works for this?

[Anonymous]

This feature would be great! I use my phone at work and at home, it would be grate to change the destination-folder with one click!

[Anonymous]

I've been looking for an app with this feature for some time, made a dirty work around recently by compiling the simple camera app which is also open code (did not manage to compile open camera) with different names and id's to be able to install several apps side by side pointing to several locations.
But agree with wath is suggested previously in this thread, some sort of tagging while shooting would be much better.