the last label maker I will ever need- Dymo rhino 1101

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by Roberta

A hint... now that you're assigning a unique number to each plant, if you add that number to the photo ID (You can just put in front of the camera number if you don't want to fully rename the file, or in front of the name if you do rename the file), you also end up with a way to easily retrieve photos of a particular plant. If you use names for the photos, you can use the unique number followed by a letter (e.g. 205a, 205b, 205c for the first 3 photos of plant 205) so each photo file name is unique.

How do you deal with multiple photos of the same plant then? (ex: taken on different years?). I struggled for a long time to find a naming convention that make sense and would avoid duplicate names, for all of my photos. I have gone done the path of unique names (full date-foldername-photonumber, ex: 20201022-Orchids-001) and then use the Lightroom catalog to manage the photos and search for what I want.

I automatically rename the photos when uploading them to the computer, import in lightroom and then add tags to each photo (plant name, year). It's a lot quicker than manually renaming everything. The downside is the subscription to Lightroom, but I think that there are free photo management apps that work with similar cataloging systems if you don't need the LR development module.

[SouthPark]

One ID system I use was mentioned a while ago ----- just based on date/time code. It's one way of generating a unique code.

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by camille1585

How do you deal with multiple photos of the same plant then? (ex: taken on different years?).

It all comes down to that unique number for each plant. If you use a spreadsheet, you can put multiple photo links in one cell separated by commas, or just put them at the end of the row and add columns as needed. Of course, this cries out for a database so that one-to-many relationships can be managed better - using that number as a key, I have a table for instances of potting, and another for instances of blooming, and another for photo links. And the unique ID of each photo is the number plus a letter. (I have a few with complex flowers and many bloomings where I'm still trying to get that "perfect photo" where I'm close to running out of alphabet, but then could go to "aa", "ab", etc.