Version 0.9.21-beta.1293 - A new look at your family history

Andrey

Availability

Version 0.9.21-beta.1293 is already available for download for Windows and macOS platforms.

A new look at your family history

For the last couple of months, our main efforts have been aimed at making it as simple and convenient as possible to work with face recognition and creating automatic albums for people. Thanks to feedback from users, we have managed to create what we think is a very powerful tool that allows you to quickly mark the faces of friends and relatives in thousands of photos with a relatively small amount of manual work. The combination of a thoughtful interface and modern artificial intelligence makes this process very efficient.

And now it is time for the next step, which directly builds on the result already achieved. From the very beginning, the development of Tonfotos was aimed at making it easier to work with family photo archives. However, the new version takes this work to a completely different level. Now it’s not just an archive of your photos, now Tonfotos is a window into your family history. Now you can collect in one place not only photos, but also reference and genealogical information about your ancestors, distant relatives and friends. Enter the necessary information in the person’s card, and now you can see all the relationships between people, as well as quickly move between relatives in one click.

This is a unique functionality that none of the competing solutions have. We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas on how to improve this feature further.

Other improvements

Added the ability to remove “garbage” faces among the proposed ones in one click:

scedric

Amazing! I like the new family feature and that I can now see how many times a person has been tagged in the library. The one click option is a time saver 😃 I wish there was one also to confirm multiple picture as well.
Thank you for this update.

Andrey

scedric thank you! To confirm several suggestion at once you need to select them (mouse + shift or mouse + control) and then confirm then using context menu (with the right click). This way you can confirm as many as you like at once.

Andrey

scedric I am quite impressed by the facial recognition, way more solid than Digikam’s one.

Great to hear that 🙂

scedric I wish there was one also to confirm multiple picture as well.

Can then please clarify what exactly you mean by that if you are aware about existing feature? Something like “approve all” button like Picasa had?

scedric

Andrey yup that’s what I’ve been doing for a few days now 😉. I am quite impressed by the facial recognition, way more solid than Digikam’s one.

scedric

Andrey Yes that’s exactly the feature I had in mind. In Digikam it’s the same process to validate one or multiple picture: select the batch and click the approve button.
Sidenote: since it’s easy to approve a wrong picture by mistake when batch approving, a kind of undo would be a nice plus.

leftside

This feature is amazing! Really excited to use it.

scedric

Is there somewhere we can see list for the future features you are planning to add? Like a Trello?

Andrey

scedric well, the closest to that is probably this forum, if we only take into account English-speaking resources. You can see all requests and see which ones are closed already, which are not. You can also see my comments, and how many people are voting for which one. That has direct influence on the roadmap.

Well, ideally, I would have community manager to better communicate internal roadmap in nice readable format, but I can’t afford one, sorry. Opening up internal issue tracker for public is not an option at all.

scedric

I did not have an public issue tracker in mind, for that you could have the project on Github.
A general roadmap of what you plan for TF would be nice, like a Trello. But I as you wrote, the Bug Tracker and Feature Requests are a bit like that already.

Andrey

scedric I totally get what you mean. Transferring internal project info space to something suitable for public demonstration is an effort. Let’s just start by saying that English in not my native language, so all my planning is not in English. At my previous jobs I would typically assign this on product marketing, or even have a dedicated person for what I am doing here myself now - “community management”. I do hope this project will grow some day to the stage when all that will be in place. But right now I more like one man band with few contractors on per-task basis. However, it does not mean I am not having fun doing all that 😀 I am feeling so much better than I did at my last corporate job 😆

scedric

I totally understand and I am glad you are having fun because it makes TF great and it evolves nicely.

KevinG

Great feature, can you add grandchildren please

Andrey

KevinG basically you already can do that by adding children and then their children. They will not be shown on the persons card though, but showing all second tier relatives would be an issue, since there could be too many of them. And flat list is probably not appropriate view for it, something like genealogy tree would do better. But that is totally different feature.