How do you manage your photos? We produce so many photos that it becomes overwhelming to keep them organized. I recently asked my youngest daughter to put together some photos for her father’s birthday. She and one other daughter put together 174 photos which they shared with myself and two other daughters. I added 100 photos and that was only back to 2019.
I had to recently upgrade my storage on Amazon so I had enough storage space for videos and photos. I have made some cursory attempts at organizing them, putting together albums, deleting poor quality photos and duplicates. There are still thousands of unorganized photos on Amazon, Google and our hard drives.
I just attended Rootstech 2023 and was amazed at all the companies promoting software that helps organize and store photos. One was Collectionaire and another was Photomyne and then there was Mylio and Storied. I am sure there were more exhibitors there that had variations on photo storage and organization.
I think the key to photo storage and organization is for me to develop a habit of working on my photos for a few minutes each day. For example, I have the app Journey on my phone which allows me to journal and attach photos in a daily entry. I will start doing an entry daily in Journey actually two entries..one entry for the day and one entry for a day I missed in the past.
My daughters are helping me try to get photos organized on Google and Amazon and I think I also have a Dropbox account. It actually all seems a bit overwhelming but I want to be an organized person so I need to put in the effort to develop habits that an organized person would have.
I just started reading the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. He states: “the most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become.” I want to become an organized person which means I need to have daily habits that support that identity.
