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Old 05-18-2020, 07:22 AM   #1
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First, I had no idea where to post this question so Let's Chat it is. If there is a different forum it would fit better please move.

What kind of system do you use to organize your digital photos?
Where do you store them?
How do you label them?

I thought labeling by season and year would be okay but having to look for my oldest's kindergarten photos proved tricky using that method because it could have been Summer or Fall depending on when I saved the photos etc.

So, I have 15 plus years of digital photos that need some kind of system. I don't want to lose them to randomly assigned file names and vague years.

I know I need to print them too but that is a whole other organizational challenge.
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I think that it makes sense to organize it by years and then have subfolders for seasons/months. Generally, I try to keep it to 150 or fewer photos per folder (b/c that is easy to scan to find what I'm looking for).

For years when I had babies (and was taking a lot of month-by-month photos) that means each month had a separate folder (ex. 2010 - January, 2010 - February, 2010 - March, etc...)

When the kids were toddlers and I didn't have quite so many photos, then I started doing it every 2 months (ex. 2012 - Jan-Feb, 2012 - March-April, etc...)

Then when they were kids I switched to quarterly (ex. 2015 - Jan-March, 2015 - Spring (April-May), 2015 - Summer (June-August), 2015 - Fall (Start of School-Halloween), 2015 - Holiday (Nov Dec)

I have my photos stored externally on the cloud, and even when I have to check a few different folders the organization works pretty well because I can narrow it down to year, and then scan through visually to see what folder it's in.
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What kind of system do you use to organize your digital photos?
Where do you store them?
How do you label them?

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I know I need to print them too but that is a whole other organizational challenge.
I have a folder with the year, then 12 subfolders with the month. Sometimes there might be an additional subfolder if I have a lot . . . such as NYC for a trip.

I store them on an external hard drive. My labeling of the actual pictures themselves could use work and I have changed what I do over the years.

I am able to easily find them because I post pictures on a blog. I can search the blog for key words and then I can look up the name of the picture and able to find it in the right folder.

As for pictures being printed. Anything I want to print I put in a "TO PRINT MAY" folder and try to do that every couple of months. Then move them to right month for final storage.
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I have yearly folders. I use nam.efix to rename all the pics automatically. It is free and I love it! Within my year folders I have separate folders for big events like a vacation. My kids also have baby folders with pictures copied from the yearly photos. I think I take fewer photos that most people. I also try to go through and delete the ones that aren’t great.
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This is helpful. I need to go back and delete mediocre photos or photos that really don’t capture anything as a moment to remember.

It’s honestly overwhelming but I don’t want to have this same scramble in 2 years when my second child graduates.
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This is helpful. I need to go back and delete mediocre photos or photos that really don’t capture anything as a moment to remember.

It’s honestly overwhelming but I don’t want to have this same scramble in 2 years when my second child graduates.
Curating my photos down to just the ones I'd actually want to put on a projector/photo albums has been really helpful. I do that before I transfer from my phone to my cloud storage, which makes organization easier. When I'm looking at photos, I ask myself these questions:

"Would my kids like this to show to their friends someday?"
"Does this photo belong in a graduation/wedding/memorial slideshow?"
"Do I already have a photo like this that is better?"

I'm fairly strict when it comes to making myself delete photos and only keep the best ones.
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I use Google photos and I just let there algorithm do it all I know that probably isn't considered a lagitamat option but it is what I do.

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I use Google photos and I just let there algorithm do it all I know that probably isn't considered a lagitamat option but it is what I do.

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This has been my most recent method. It’s not a method really but it’s better than what my overwhelmed mom of little survival brain thought was a good idea more than a decade ago.

Also discovered that while a I am not one to cling to “things” in my life I am clearly a digital hoarder
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