Ask HN: what do you use for image management?
I have hundreds of images that I downloaded from the web – pieces of inspiration (photographs, screenshots of whole websites, navigation elements or logos), hacks from thereifixedit.com, funny xkcd/dilbert/lolcats, pictures from airliners.net and whatever else.
My pain: how to organize all this. All mac apps including those that support tags are essentially folder-based, tags/keywords are used only for text search. I however need tag-based GUI, so that I can find all images of boeing 737s taking off in a couple clicks. Similarly, sometimes I want to see all navigation UIs I saved, other times – all 37signals stuff I saved. Folders fail here. It's also a problem because I could be saving much more images if I knew I could manage them well.
I will make a mac app for this purpose, that is essentially tag-based, but with a couple twists (if you're interested in seeing pre-release versions, drop me a line at nikita@chopperdefense.com)
So, question: Do you also save a lot of photos/images/screenshots from the web? How do you organize them? Do you upload them to flickr, or use some app (which one)? Does this solve your problem?
I just need to see whether anyone else has this problem. Please help me with this. Thank you.