jmathai/elodie on Hacker News

…have enough motivation to do it. Just saying, I can see myself doing what this person is doing. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

comment by jmathai · 2026-09-02 · in We are rebuilding Monica

…long ago I don’t recall all the details but you can retrieve this information using exif commands. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/master/configs/ExifTo...

comment by jmathai · 2026-03-08 · in Files are the interface humans and agents interact with

…everything is just markdown and csv files for Claude Code (for research and document writing). [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

comment by jmathai · 2026-03-07 · in Files are the interface humans and agents interact with

…during a transfer between systems is too high. It’s a conscious decision and not an oversight. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/2645bf25b81c63f65d6f1... [2] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/master/elodie/media/a... [3]…

comment by jmathai · 2026-01-31 · in My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)

…feed into other photo programs. It's open source and available on github. https://getelodie.com https://github.com/jmathai/elodie I started off using it with Google Photos. Explained here, https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow…

comment by jmathai · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

…the core code. Last night I added SQLite support as a plugin. 2 code files and one is unit tests. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/pull/443/files I don't know if this is the best approach but it's worked better than others in my 20+ years…

comment by jmathai · 2023-01-07 · in The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul

…people willing to pay for something I create - which is my goal. [1] https://getelodie.com [1 also] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

comment by jmathai · 2022-12-25 · in 1k True Fans (2008)

…documented the solution I've finally landed on and have been using/evolving for 7 years now. 1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie 2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut... 3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-…

comment by jmathai · 2022-10-27 · in My Cloud Storage Crisis

…to Synology Photos but haven’t written about that yet. Relying on EXIF makes that super easy. 1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie 2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut... 3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing…

comment by jmathai · 2022-07-31 · in What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos?

…NAS -> normalize file names \--Google Photos I wrote this tool to normalize folder and file names < https://github.com/jmathai/elodie >. I wrote about the rest of the system in the following posts. 1. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing…

comment by jmathai · 2021-09-14 · in Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving and backups?

…miss the GPhotos / GDrive connection. FWIW - I wrote this plugin[1] to recreate my workflow[2]. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/tree/master/elodie/plugins... [2] https://medium.com/swlh/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-go...

comment by jmathai · 2021-03-08 · in The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

…and include source code on Github. Github repo to automatically organize photos based on EXIF: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie Series of posts on Medium (to be read in order): https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-auto..…

comment by jmathai · 2021-01-13 · in Ask HN: How/Where do you store/backup your photos safely?

…little hack. Haven't used it though! 1: ( https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer 2: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie --- 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019612

comment by notemaker · 2020-10-16 · in Ask HN: How do you manage and store family pictures/videos

…I could trash and restore at any point). I have a series of blog posts [2] about my setup. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie [2] https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-auto...

comment by jmathai · 2020-09-22 · in RIP iCloud, Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale

…little hack. Haven't used it though! 1: ( https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer 2: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

comment by notemaker · 2020-08-01 · in Ask HN: How do you organise and de-duplicate photos from old storage?

…in Dropbox automatically added to my Google Photos library and this has worked well so far. [1] [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/tree/75e65901a94e14e6fd1ff...

comment by jmathai · 2019-11-20 · in Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

…3 miles of the current photo --- if so, it uses that instead of looking up the location. [1] [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/blob/75e65901a94e14e6fd1ff...

comment by jmathai · 2019-11-20 · in Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

…off my phone and onto my Synology). Not ideal but once I got it set up it's worked really well. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/tree/master/elodie/plugins...

comment by jmathai · 2019-11-20 · in Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

…of software I've written [1] + a workflow that's resulted from it [2, 3, 4, 5]. [1] Elodie - https://github.com/jmathai/elodie [2] Understanding my need for an automated photo workflow - https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-…

comment by jmathai · 2019-11-20 · in Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

…serve the same purpose as my script. For any others than myself, that might be more suitable. [1]: https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

comment by notemaker · 2019-01-07 · in Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

…https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p... https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

comment by jmathai · 2017-10-11 · in Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

…I wrote and used with Dropbox but now use with Google Drive / Google Photos / Synology. [3] http://github.com/jmathai/elodie [2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal... [1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/thoughts-on-dro…

comment by jmathai · 2017-07-11 · in Dropbox Drops Photo Galleries

…photos, videos and audio files. It encodes much of the metadata into the filename itself [2]. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie [2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

comment by jmathai · 2017-06-12 · in Tagsistant: semantic filesystem for Linux

…wrote about it a bit here [1] under "the file system as a real time reflection of its contents" [0] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/issues/35 [1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

comment by jmathai · 2017-02-10 · in Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

Elodie - An EXIF-based photo, video and audio workflow automation tool https://github.com/jmathai/elodie I've been working on Elodie for over a year. It's organized over 15,000 of my personal photos and videos for me. It's also helped me…

comment by jmathai · 2017-02-10 · in Ask HN: What is your weekend project?

…them. I did write some open source[1][2] software I use in conjunction with Google Photos[3]. [1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie [2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal... [3]…

comment by jmathai · 2016-12-24 · in The Memory App – Instant personalized memory recall