Working with Categories

Categories are one of the central concepts in IMatch. Categories allow you to group, organize and categorize your files in many ways. Whether you want to group files by keywords, family members, scientific species, motive or thousands of other criteria, categories allow you to do that easily and quickly.

Standard Categories

IMatch creates a set of standard categories for new databases.

IMatch Standard Categories

This category hierarchy contains data-driven categories which automatically organize your images and other files by things like camera Make and Model, Lens used, Aperture, ISO and Location (country, city, location). MP3 files are organized by artist and album and PDF files are organized by author and title.

Use these categories as examples for your own data-driven categories.

IMatch Workflow Categories

This category set uses formula-based categories to organize your files by standard workflow criteria like: "Show me all files without description" or "Files without keywords".

Use these categories as they are or modify them to meet your needs.

Updating (recalculating) categories requires work and costs time.
If you don't need some of the default categories, delete them in the Category View.