Feature detail
I personally would be keen to see support for tagging photos. I like how digiKam does this, such that any single piece of media can have any number of tags applied to it.
How albums are currently implemented is close to this. Such that a single piece of media can belong to multiple albums. Notably however, what is absent, is no way of viewing media that is not assigned to album.
I feel tags can help resolve this. We could have a selection "No tags" to specifically view media that has not been tagged.
Furthermore, and arguably more important (although I like to tag all my media because I'm OCD), one thing albums lack is viewing more than a single album at the same time when the purpose requires.
For example, I could have an album Cat and an album Dog. It's clear which album to go to when I wish to browser either of them. But if I wanted to view "Cat and Dog" then I need to create a new album titled so and add the media to it.
Tags fix this, in that media tagged Cat, and media tagged Dog could both be browsed at the same time by selecting to view media tagged both Cat and Dog.
This is of course a personal preference. And if Immich has it's heart set on using Albums to conform to more mainstream applications, that is fine. However I hope I can spark a discussion on this, as it is something I would be very eager to see.
(n.b. GitHub requested I select which platform this applies to. It only lets me pick one so I have selected Web but it would apply to the mobile app and server too.)
Platform
Web
Feature detail
I personally would be keen to see support for tagging photos. I like how digiKam does this, such that any single piece of media can have any number of tags applied to it.
How albums are currently implemented is close to this. Such that a single piece of media can belong to multiple albums. Notably however, what is absent, is no way of viewing media that is not assigned to album.
I feel tags can help resolve this. We could have a selection "No tags" to specifically view media that has not been tagged.
Furthermore, and arguably more important (although I like to tag all my media because I'm OCD), one thing albums lack is viewing more than a single album at the same time when the purpose requires.
For example, I could have an album Cat and an album Dog. It's clear which album to go to when I wish to browser either of them. But if I wanted to view "Cat and Dog" then I need to create a new album titled so and add the media to it.
Tags fix this, in that media tagged Cat, and media tagged Dog could both be browsed at the same time by selecting to view media tagged both Cat and Dog.
This is of course a personal preference. And if Immich has it's heart set on using Albums to conform to more mainstream applications, that is fine. However I hope I can spark a discussion on this, as it is something I would be very eager to see.
(n.b. GitHub requested I select which platform this applies to. It only lets me pick one so I have selected Web but it would apply to the mobile app and server too.)
Platform
Web