Of course Darktable is not only a photo sorter, but also does a lot of photo touch up ‘darkroom’ work. Debian system with KDE desktop. i5 with some bargain basement NVIDIA gpu (No, really it does not even have it’s own fan).
Which of the 3 do y’all like the best?
Edit - Update - More details:
I am dedicating a laptop to be my “portable darkroom”- My desktop machine is only an i5, this laptop is a nice Asus Vivobook with an i7 in it. I do have Rapid Photo Down Loader (which works well with my camera connected via USB C) Each photo drive or session goes in to a folder named by date 20250309 for today for example. These go inside a year folder. Inside the day folder I put the DCIM folder from the camera. I sort and grade on the computer. I have now tried Darkroom, and it seems to just pile every picture I have into one continuous unsorted stream of pictured with no grouping. I hope the other two do better in that regard.
Photo Sorting : Having your photos arranged by some criteria, I personally would like them sorted by the date and time they were taken. Ideally, folders for each year, containing folders for each month of that year, month folders have day folders in them, day folders will have media folders (If your media won’t hold a full day’s worth of shots). My new R50’s media hold over 3000 shots so I don’t think I will fill it up in one day.
Ah so it’s mass-sorting, essentially? That’s something I do manually because I publish on my own website. Makes sense I wouldn’t have looked for a ‘solution’ to that.
Yeah, it’s kind of a one-time thing. When I download my camera I will be able to put the pictures where they belong /year/month/day because usually I only have pictures in the camera for the day’s shooting. Day-trip drives for picture taking, you know.