Wondering if you have expounded on your photo management process and if you have, I missed it. I am inundated with photos, especially after becoming a grandparent, and I guess living long enough-ha! Also how to deal with storage and where. I have been receiving threatening messages that I must pay more for more cloud space.
I continue to enjoy your thoughts, suggestions. You are welcome to visit again if you are ever up our way.
1. Try not to take too many photos at the outset so I don't get overwhelmed.
2. Go through the photos often, deleting duplicates or ones I don't like.
3. Set my photos to automatically back up with Google Photos (the plans are quite cheap, like $20/year for both my and Chelsea's photos).
4. For longer trips, I create individual albums and add photos to that album so I can see them all at once. Google has great AI search features, e.g. if you type "tree" or "piano" it'll find all the photos with a tree or piano in them. I use that allll the time to locate a photo.
5. I have a recurring calendar event for Sunday evening with a link to Google Photos; I simply click and scan through photos from the week, plus look at the "this day _____ time ago." It's become a ritual, I love it!
6. Overall, I try to keep things fairly simple and not aim for perfection (some weeks I might ignore the calendar reminder or not delete duplicates). It's just a practice, like meditation, that I return to again and again.
Simple instructions and not earth-shattering, but I hope that helps!
Love the idea of memory dividends, Dakota! Just this morning, I sent my sister a photo memory that popped up for this day 2 years ago of my baby niece beaming with a head full of curly, wet hair, fresh from the bath. I got a flash of warm fuzzies from remembering it, and another from sharing it!
Love traipsing about with you! Thanks!
Wondering if you have expounded on your photo management process and if you have, I missed it. I am inundated with photos, especially after becoming a grandparent, and I guess living long enough-ha! Also how to deal with storage and where. I have been receiving threatening messages that I must pay more for more cloud space.
I continue to enjoy your thoughts, suggestions. You are welcome to visit again if you are ever up our way.
I’m in your same boat. All of the possible methods of saving and organizing photos is overwhelming. Love this idea of revisiting moments.
Hi Laura and Jenny! Here's what I do:
1. Try not to take too many photos at the outset so I don't get overwhelmed.
2. Go through the photos often, deleting duplicates or ones I don't like.
3. Set my photos to automatically back up with Google Photos (the plans are quite cheap, like $20/year for both my and Chelsea's photos).
4. For longer trips, I create individual albums and add photos to that album so I can see them all at once. Google has great AI search features, e.g. if you type "tree" or "piano" it'll find all the photos with a tree or piano in them. I use that allll the time to locate a photo.
5. I have a recurring calendar event for Sunday evening with a link to Google Photos; I simply click and scan through photos from the week, plus look at the "this day _____ time ago." It's become a ritual, I love it!
6. Overall, I try to keep things fairly simple and not aim for perfection (some weeks I might ignore the calendar reminder or not delete duplicates). It's just a practice, like meditation, that I return to again and again.
Simple instructions and not earth-shattering, but I hope that helps!
Love the idea of memory dividends, Dakota! Just this morning, I sent my sister a photo memory that popped up for this day 2 years ago of my baby niece beaming with a head full of curly, wet hair, fresh from the bath. I got a flash of warm fuzzies from remembering it, and another from sharing it!
YEAH! That's the ticket. Yesterday I sent a random pic to an old college friend and she said the pic made her day. Always worth sharing!