I would find it convenient to as part of the exporting of an image give it a star or color rating to help me easily recognise that an image has been exported. I am not sure if anyone else would find this useful and I am not sure if the ability to do this already exists. I looked at the user manual and didn’t find an answer to this question. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this ?
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Have a look at Collections > tag > darktable, there is a tag called “exported”.
Not sure if that is sufficient, but its already there 
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Hi Mica, I couldn’t find what you mentioned. Any chance of a screenshot for guidance.
BTW, the reason I ask if I can rate an image as part of the export process is that sometimes I am editing folders with over 1000 images and I just quickly want to see where I am at in editing that folder, so if there was a rating applied it helps to see that at a glance. I may need to just remember to do it manually.
Yup:
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Thanks Mica. That won’t meet my needs, however, what helps is being able to sort a folder collection to identify the exported images from that folder/collection. So not 100% what I want but helpful.
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Well color labels can mean whatever you want them to 
you can use the exported tag to show you all the exports, apply the color label, then go back to the folder.
Hi, Terry!
I see that you have a search field between the stars icons and “sort by”, and wonder how it got there?
(In my v. 5.0.0 I see no such thing, (neither do I see it on the screen shot of 5.0.1 on the home page of darktable.org. I haven’t so far spent much energy to explore the many aspects of the lighttable, but can’t find any setting in Preferences or elsewhere to get it there. )
You mean this?
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Yes, thanks, István!
Hi @EspE1 I see Kofa has headed you in the right direction, but in case others are wondering I have added search as a new collection filter and pinned it to the top toolbar. It is handy for search for an image based on file extension and other tags and text.
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Brilliant. Thank you so much! Took me a couple of minutes to work out not exported, but now I have a just-what-I-always-wanted. I never again have to struggle to remember where I am, or compare pic by pic to see which ones I forgot the ctrl-e, when I don’t end up with the right number of jpegs.
Now I have to work this out…
I navigate by film roll. Having selected the film roll, I would like a preset to add the exclude-exported filter.
Apologies if this is hijack: I figured that it is close to the OP’s topic.
I don’t see how this could be added as a preset, but the collection (film roll) you are working on could be filtered to show exported images. I only know this because of the post by @paperdigits in this thread. I scoured the user guide but could not see a list of what other tags might be attached to the files.
I would like to be able to create a export preset that includes a rating of stars or color. It might be helpful for a number of scenarios including tracking which have been exported or not, or even which ones you want to print later.
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On my phone so I can’t test but wanted to get this thought out.
There is a variable for $(TAGS). If you can use that in the image overlay, you might be able to combine with the pattern filtering for variables detailed here: darktable user manual - variables
You could then match when the tag “exported” is present and give it a shorter word or even just the letter “E” in your image overlay so as not to take up any room.
No idea if any part of it would work.
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I did test this out this morning, and unfortunately $(TAGS) only gives user added tags at this time, and not the auto-added tags under darktable. I’ve inquired about it in the dt dev chat.
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