"Add the date the picture was taken to beginning of filename"

TARGET FILES:
JPEG image files (*.jpg and *.jpeg) created by digital cameras (supports EXIF).

CASE:
These days, in the digital world, every step of our lives is recorded by our best "friend", the digital camera. However, managing the tons of pictures we take is a completely different story. NIYoW can help you making the management of these pictures much easier.

SOLUTION:
One way to help you navigate through your pictures is by adding the date the picture was taken at the beginning of the filename. This way, the time needed for searching a picture from a specific day can be significantly shorter. By typing the date the picture was taken in the search field (using Windows Explorer for example) and making a search you can find the appropriate picture in seconds.

Example filename:
Before: "DSC00018.JPG"
After: "[15-10-2004] - DSC00018.JPG"

Download NIYoW:
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DOWNLOAD SET:
http://www.niyow.com/rules/jpeg_example01.rls

THE RULES:

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Rule
Parameters
Description
1
 Title & Extension: "Attach text to edge of name"

Insert This="[%jpeg_date-taken[dd-mm-yyyy]%] - "

Insert Where="Start"

Apply To="Title"

 This rule adds the date the picture was taken at the beginning of the name in dd-mm-yyyy format, as specified in the EXIF tag of the JPEG file.

Possible enhancements:

  1. Add also the time the picture was taken - You can be more specific and add also the time the picture was taken. By changing the value of the Insert This parameter to "[%jpeg_date-taken[dd-mm-yyyy]%, %jpeg_time-taken[hh-mm]% ] - " you will add the date and also the time at the beginning of the filename.
  2. Change the date format - If navigating is more important to you than how the filenames appear, you can significantly improve the navigation speed by adding the date the picture was taken in yyyy-mm-dd format and the time in hh-mm-ss format. Change the value of the Insert This parameter to "[%jpeg_date-taken[yyyy-mm-dd]% - %jpeg_time-taken[hh-mm-ss]%] - ". Now, due to their new names, the files will be sorted from the oldest time the picture was taken to the newest.

Comments:
A very simple set, but yet so powerful. Gives you a good solution for organizing your picture collections.