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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Any reason why you are using digikam for importing and sorting and not just daktable?
Digikam is built from the ground up to be a photo cataloger. Hierarchical tags that you can click on to expand or contract, the ability to jump from a given photo to all photos taken on the same date, or all photos in the same folder, or all photos that share a particular tag. Collapsible folders and tag structures, the ability to toggle child tag/folder recursive view on or off, image grouping (automated by filename/timestamp/burst). They also share metadata perfectly well through EXIF data, so anything I do in one is visible in the other right away.
This is digikam
This is the same folder in darktable
I find the catalogue more convenient in digikam, but it might be because I've used it since the beginning.