Is There a Way to Tag and Color-Code Files?
by MarjaE from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6PMV6)
i.e. like MacOS Finder Tags.
I often import a file into Calibre, while keeping another copy of the file on another disk. In MacOS, I would automatically add (Calibrized) to the file name and a red tag, so it was easy to recognize which files had been imported. (Yes, Calibrized is a unique new word; it makes it easier to search for).
I'd sometimes add (Logged Duplicate) and an orange tag, if I'd just noted them in Calibre, or just add a gray tag, if I'd skipped them.
Even if there's no way to read xattr, being able to color-code by parts of the file names would help.
I don't want to rearrange my folder structure to show which files are imported. For one thing, that makes it harder to compare different versions to see if they're duplicates. For another, it's incompatible with some apps which download files to their own libraries, separate from the Calibre library.
In any case, these tags don't show up in Fedora + Cinnamon + Nemo. I'm not sure if different desktop environments and file browsers would have more options.
Most of the info about tagging files in Linux is for audio files.
Most of the info about color-coding files in Linux is about color-coding by file type.
I often import a file into Calibre, while keeping another copy of the file on another disk. In MacOS, I would automatically add (Calibrized) to the file name and a red tag, so it was easy to recognize which files had been imported. (Yes, Calibrized is a unique new word; it makes it easier to search for).
I'd sometimes add (Logged Duplicate) and an orange tag, if I'd just noted them in Calibre, or just add a gray tag, if I'd skipped them.
Even if there's no way to read xattr, being able to color-code by parts of the file names would help.
I don't want to rearrange my folder structure to show which files are imported. For one thing, that makes it harder to compare different versions to see if they're duplicates. For another, it's incompatible with some apps which download files to their own libraries, separate from the Calibre library.
In any case, these tags don't show up in Fedora + Cinnamon + Nemo. I'm not sure if different desktop environments and file browsers would have more options.
Most of the info about tagging files in Linux is for audio files.
Most of the info about color-coding files in Linux is about color-coding by file type.