New types of relations besides duplicates and alternates

[novakda]

While Hydrus is probably not intended to be a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, it comes quite close to one out of the box.

Artists, photographers, and other creatives often work with multiple files that are different versions or components of some final file.

For example:

• raw images vs retouched
• raw sketch -> finished line drawings -> inked -> colored
• stock photos and other graphics that are used to create a .PSD
• drafts/revisions
• a contact sheet (thumbnails) of a video
• assets that go into a game .EXE .APK, etc.

Currently, you can indicate files are duplicates/alternates of each other, but there's no way to describe relationships between files in a meaningful way (I use tags with hashes and process it with the API, e.g. is-stock-photo-for:somehash , but there's no easy way to do this in the UI but copying and pasting hashes and adding tags manually )

Please consider a way to set relationships between files (perhaps an extension to alternates that allows you to supply a text comment for each king-child combo in an alternates group).