Archivist

CENTRALIZE YOUR DIGITAL ASSETS.

Archivist is an easy tool to help organizing all your digital assets.

According to the license of PyQt5, this software is under license of GPL.

This project is W.I.P, and has a long way to go.

1.Background

For most of people, what they really need is to deal with their valuable files(pictures, music, video, pdf and documents).

Archivist aims to be a tool which helps to manage all the valuable files simply.

2. Environment

• Windows/MacOS(PyQt5 is designed as cross-platform)
• Anaconda
• PyQt5

3.Dependency

Before you start, make sure everything is set

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can also use conda to reach the same environment

conda env create -f environment.yml

If the network is fine then it should be done within a few minutes.

4. Usage

• Clone the repository

https://github.com/Joshua-Meakin/Archivist

then just run Archivist.py directly

python Archivist.py

5.Project Structure

1. Archivist.py is the entrance of the software, the object controller will be created here.

2. ./core holds Archivies.db by default. If Archivies.db is imported from other place, then it will be here and replace the older one.

3. ./component is place where all the GUI component are placed.

6.Dev Log

09/28/20 Basic feature is nearly done. Right now, each file can hold a tag, a rating and a keyword seperately.

09/30/20 Basic feature is done, filter can work under tag, rating and keyword at the same time.

7. TO-DO

-[ ] For each file, can hold more than just one tag and one keyword.

-[ ] Preview(thumbnail) for the file.

-[ ] Attribute for the file(Espacially pictures)