No thanks I don't load images into an editor unless I plan on actually editing them. Now you're no longer a photo organizer, but an image editor with an index. "Well, you can also edit your photos as you review them in the organizer." Uh, no.
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But given how incredibly rarely I do that, I could accomplish the same thing by launching Geeqie on a directory full of softlinks. "Well, you can create custom slideshows by selecting photos by category or individually." Uh, all right, vaguely useful. "Well, you can organize them by category." Okay, how is the initial categorization done? Or do I have to invent (and remember) my own taxonomy of tags, and apply them to each photo in turn? Assuming I go to that trouble, is this metadata portable in the event I decide to change to another organizer? Great now I have double the number of image files to manage (original plus thumbnails). Every so often, I let one of these "photo organizers" loose on the lot, and the only evident result is a gallery of thumbnails. Except for the ones from a very old phone, they all still have their original filenames and datestamps. I have a pile of a few thousand (gack!) photos sitting in well-known directories. "For organizing your photos, you dullard."