Ask HN: Best application for tagging and organizing family photos?
1. No interest in anything online, I'm going to copy all the photos to my personal computer, and copy them onto my parents computer as well. No need to upload or manage them online, in the cloud, social networks, etc.
2. It needs tagging. Either labeling faces similar to Facebook, or just listing the people in a particular photo. It would also be nice to give the photo an estimated date and location.
3. Simple to browse, and to use tags. It would be great if you could just select a person to see all their photos, or start typing their name, and they all appear. Or select multiple people to view only photos with the group. Also, it would be useful to view by location and year. A timeline would be interesting, to scroll through the years.
4. It would need to work on Windows.
5. I doubt this feature exists anywhere, but it just popped into my mind. Attach the date of birth to people you've tagged. Then, using this date, and the date of the photos, you should be able to browse a person by their age. So, I could show pictures of John Doe, ages 5-10.
6. Some type of standard format would also be a plus, so 5 years into the future, I could export the data and face tags, and be able to load them into something else.
Is Picasa my only real option here? It seems like everyone is focused on web applications (including Picasa from what I'm reading, and all their Google+ features), and there's really a lack of quality desktop applications for such a fundamental task. The iPhoto layout has a similar setup to what I'm looking for when it comes to simplicity.
Thanks for any ideas.