This is part of a multi-step demo:
- Demo introduction
- Adding date- and/or time-stamps to files
- Appending some text to file names
- Tagging files
- Filter files according to their tags
- Generating TagTrees and navigating them
- File manipulation in filtered views or TagTrees
- Quick Setup Instructions
Now that we have some file names with beautiful date- and time-stamps, we are appending more information to the file names with appendfilename.
What is shown:
- A file gets selected and "appendfilename" is
invoked from the "Send to" context menu.
- There is a pop-up window where the user is able to enter some text.
- The string "- Trattoria" is appended to the file name for the lunch menu.
- Multiple files are selected and
"appendfilename" is invoked from the "Send to" context
menu.
- The string "Project X" is appended to the marked files.
- Some photographs gets selected and more text
appended to their file names.
- This demonstrates the fact that, e.g., adding meaningful names to your photo collection, can be done very easily.
Yes of course, you may rename the file name using standard methods. I do prefer appendfilename
for adding the same string to multiple files. Furthermore, with this tool, I don't have to manually position the input cursor within the file name, making sure not to "hurt" tags used or break the file extension.
Not shown here:
- You can use
TAB
-completion within the pop-up window. It is populated with every word of the existing file names of the same folder. This way, you don't have to enter words that you have already used here.
Next: Tagging files