Photo Management
Losing photos is the worst! This is how I keep mine safe for the long haul!
I keep EVERYTHING photo and video related in Photos.
Synced with iCloud Photo Library
They range from about 2007 - 2021
(with some scans of paper photos from earlier)
Currently I have 50,955 photos and 1,507 videos in there and Photos runs great!
as of December 2021
For organization:
I have the standard Photos provided categories
- Library
- Memories
- People
- Places
- Favorites
- Recents
- Imports
- Recently Deleted
I then also organize things into Albums, and each of those albums are in broader year based albums.
I also have created smart albums for every year that will show me every photo from a given year since every photo is not in an album.
Also a special album to show me me anything that hasn’t uploaded to iCloud for some reason.
All this being said, search works pretty damn well in Photos so I can see a day in the near future where I don’t do any manual organization and just search for things:
“Cats”
“Jason”
“2017”
and so on..