Welcome to Tracker wiki

What is it?

Tracker http://www.tracker-project.org (or Meta Tracker) is a personal search tool and storage system that allows you to search and enhance your personal data with the minimum of fuss.

It allows you to find the proverbial needle in your computer's haystack as well as providing a one stop solution to the organisation, storage and categorisation of your data.

Tracker has been proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.18. A document describing the benfits of Tracker, why it is useful now, and what avenues it opens for the GNOME desktop can be found at

• What is Tracker and how does it benefit GNOME

What does it do?

Tracker trawls through your data and organises it so that it can be retrieved extremely quickly later on via simple searches.

This organisation puts your data into categories so that application like photo managers and music players can instantly find relevant content automatically

Tracker enables you to tag your data with keywords which can be used to find related information or to group and categorise your data further

Tracker lets you extend your data with additional metadata.

More info

• Development roadmap

• Supported file formats

• Summer of Code proposal

• /Performance

External References

• Shared File Metadata Spec (fd.o)

• Audio File Metadata Spec (fd.o)

• Common Extended Attributes (fd.o)

Contacts

All discussion related to tracker happens on the tracker mailing list.

The maintainer of tracker can be contacted via email: jamiemcc at gnome org