Oh that looks lovely. I enjoy the UI and all the work on tagging and classification. But its still missing some features I want:
- I want native desktop apps
- I want P2P device sync. My laptop and my home server should be peers. Just with different rules for which photos are stored locally on each device.
- I want per-device storage rules. (Eg, "I want all my favorited photos, and recent photos up to 50gb on my laptop").
- Backups. I want to be able to plug in an external hard drive and backup my photos (with some rules). Then disconnect the drive and see in the metadata for those photos that I have a copy of the full res RAW on that drive.
But even if other programs exist, its still fun to make something myself. Authoring your own software gives you a different relationship with the computer. You're less of a consumer. You can change or tweak features on a whim. Psychologically, its kind of like being in your own home vs being in a hotel room. If you hate the furniture at home, you can move it or change it. You can decorate however you like. In a hotel, you're affected by your environment but you have no agency over it. I think its much more healthy to create.