How to Declutter & Organize Digital Photos
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2024
- Are you completely overwhelmed by the amount of digital photos saved in multiple places, on multiple devices? Do you dream of quickly and easily creating yearly photo books for your family, or simply being able to enjoy the memories?
Today, Dawn and Casey von Stein (known online as Miss Freddy) share organizational strategies for digital photos so that you and your family can stop being stressed and start enjoying the memories.
ABOUT CASEY:
Casey is a professional photo organizer who took the organizational skills she fine-tuned during her 10 years as a professional photographer and created simple workflows that allow her clients and students to conquer their photo overwhelm and enjoy their photos again.
IN THIS EPISODE:
-If you can only do one thing…
-The positive emotional affect digital organization can have
-GEM Where to even begin making yearly yearbooks (minute 12:40)
-How to handle working through family photos
-What trends are coming in the photo world
Links mentioned
Ollie photo organizing app - get.goodones.app/yVeZ/pmmissf...
Miss Freddy Courses - shop.missfreddy.com/products
Instagram - / miss.freddy
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ABOUT THE MINIMAL MOM:
Hi, I'm Dawn, if we haven't met before, I'm married to Tom and we have four kids ages 8-13. We live outside of the Twin Cities in MN and have called ourselves minimalists for 8 years now. We got rid of 85% of our stuff and don't miss ANY OF IT!
If you'd like to see more instructional videos about minimalism and decluttering, be sure to check out my other channel @theminimalmom
I clear off my phone photos every week - I ask myself “will this photo matter to me in 5 years” if it won’t, I cull it.
I have literally just finished scanning all of my physical photos (lots as I’m almost 60yo) and culling/sorting my digital photos. I sorted by year, month & event - it has taken me 7 years by setting myself a daily limit so I didn’t get burnt out and broke the task down into small chunks. I now have all photos backed up to a SSD hard drive and uploaded to Google Drive so that my kids have access whenever they like. A huge job but so well worth the small chunks of time :)
7 years!!!!!! Oh man!!! I’m almost 69! I will be dead before I’m finished. lol. Cause I have tons of photos also.
@@sherylriehl1334 I set myself small limits of 15mins per day. You could easily set aside 30-60mins per day. The more you get into it, the quicker it goes because you recognise your systems. Don’t tackle every photo individually at first- I started by sorting into year folders, then month and so on. It might seem overwhelming (it did with me at first) but you’ll be surprised how quickly it all starts to take shape.
@@sherylriehl1334make yourself some curating rules, like travel photos only if I am in them with a landmark, kid photos only if showing personality or best friends, 1 best photo to document important event, etc
So impressive! May I ask if you use an app or scanner to digitize your physical photos?
@@shanlao7301 I used a scanner for my photos - it was on my desk already setup, so was an easy option for me to sit down and use it. However I also used an app called PhotoScan for some 12x12 scrapbooking layouts (also digitised all of my scrapbooking layouts) and that worked well also :)
I’m so thrilled you interviewed Miss Freddy on this topic! I love her! Not only have I used her methods to organize and store my photos, but she has also supported my home based quilting business. So thankful for her. Now I am focused on annual maintenance of my photos. I spend a few hours once per year to do a quick tidy and I’m good to go for another year. I still need to delete some junk but I know that all the good pics and videos are safe.
I have 7 grandkids that I am doing scrapbooks for. They will get their scrapbook when they graduate from high school. I am retired now but when I worked outside the home, I got 6 years behind….on all 7 grandkids😬. Now I am playing ‘catch up’. They don’t live in the same town as I so I have to rely on their moms mainly to text me the pics. I do not do digital books. I do it the old way with regular paper and embellishments. If there is an event that involves the whole family, like a camping trip for example, I will do one layout and then make copies for the other kids. This saves me time and money. Where I live every picture I get developed costs .35 cents. So it really adds up. In December and January I spent over $100.00 just in picture development, copies, and plastic page protectors. No embellishments. I don’t regret any of it because this is my legacy to my grandkids. My albums just so you know is the 8x8 size and each grandchild will have 2 of these by the time they graduate. For Christmas or birthdays, I have the moms stage the gifts in front of the child and take 1 picture of everything they got. There is no reason to take a picture of them opening every present. I’m sorry this got so long…it’s just something I’m passionate about😊.
This is a game changer. I have 10 years of photos in boxes and 10 years of digital photos! I’m ready to start this project now. THANK YOU 😊
Thank you for this video. the best tip for me was.. spend my precious time "hearting" the favorites and leave the rest. That comment alone gives me encouragement. thanks. you and your friends are the best !!!
I do not understand the benefit of favoriting photos if that status is lost when you upload. It serves us well when sending photos from our phones, but there is no benefit once those photos are uploaded since we then have to comb through all photos again to choose those same favorites. Someone please explain to me how you all are retaining favorite status upon upload.
@@susanshuffield8628not only you don't retain this status, but also the original date of photo taken is being replaced by the date of upload/download to/from Google drive.
What you can do is try downloading your favourite photos only as a separate folder. When you favour photos on Google drive the Favourite folder is created in the Library.
Would that help?
I put in today’s date, for example March 25th & every pic I have taken on this date for every year pops up. I can go through & eliminate and it takes just 5 minutes a day.
This came at such a perfect time. I have been trying to digitally declutter for the past two days and have gotten so overwhelmed.
So fun to see Miss Freddy on your channel! She is such a fantastic source and has helped me organize my photos. I’m now getting ready to scan old photos and convert all of our video tapes digitally!
Ironically, I was downloading my google photos on to my hard drive and Shutterfly when I picked this Podcast to listen to! Love it!!!
I'm a photographer, too, but I so needed this! 🤣😅 So many photos, and of course I love photos! 💚
I’ve literally been thinking over the last month or so that I’ve got to start sorting through my phone photos. Downloaded Ollie and already did a session. So quick and easy. Thank you for sharing such a great resource.
Thank you so much. I am close to having my physical home totally decluttered and organized. Now onto the photo memories. Dawn, you have been my guiding light every step of my journey, starting4 years ago.
I’m a 62 year old grandpa watching and learning. I have 132,000 photos and videos on my iPhone and I have 100 plus photo albums to scan, boxes of slides, boxes of reel to reel audio tapes of my family and they are labeled and dated and video tapes. I want to protect these treasures without depending on iCloud. I don’t want my home to burn down with these things. My last house burned without them.
I do not have children so my reality is different BUT I've been an aunt hero for 28 years. Keeping photos organized has been important to me for years. I have NOTHING stored in the Cloud. I took photo albums and CDs to our local library several afternoons in a room a couple months ago. My 27 year-old niece just visited a few days ago. She left with a flash drive I created for her of categorized and labeled photos dating back to her grandparents' wedding in 1969. She was ecstatic!!! These photos are also stored on a hard drive stored in our safe
Thank you so very much for making this podcast. This information is so valuable. I finally felt for the first time that I might be able to tackle this tremendously overwhelming project I have been wanting to organize. Thank you 😊
My first post-retirement project was to scan all the photos in my photo albums. I had 2-1/2 shelves of albums, such were reduced to four shoebox-sized boxes taking up only 1/2 a shelf. Fortunately, I was always anal about dating and labeling, often down to the negative number. I’m old and don’t trust that a given digital photo will last as long as a printed photo (can’t tell you how many old discs and CDs I tossed as no longer easily readable), so I won’t ever get rid of the hard copy, just in case. Still, as attached as I am to the hard copy, I enjoy the photos - I also scanned ephemera like museum and train tickets - so much more when I can quickly find them in my computer, and share them with friends and family. But it did take a huge chunk of time that I didnt really have until I retired.
A lot of this was a little bit like listening to a foreign language but on the order hand I comprehend most of it and found it to be very interesting and helpful. Thanks for sharing a different approach on how to deal with such an overwhelming task as photos and how to even get started. Good podcast!
This inspired me to switch on pc and tackle some old camcorder videos that id digitised without watching. I found video i didnt know existed of me in hospital with my newborn 21 years ago, and the early days. We lost a lot of the photos when the camera got lost so these are extra treasured! Thanks for the nudge!
This makes me so happy. ❤ my photos love it.
I did Ms Freddy’s backup bootcamp. It’s a lot of work but soooo worth it. I have probably 10,000+ physical pics that I had scanned. I’m still working on organizing and tagging my digital pics but I can find things even at this step b/c everything is in year and month folders. I’m just at the point of getting into more detail which isn’t even necessary. It is possible and such a rewarding project!
Dont forget Amazon photo storage too. Cant wait to share this video & Ms Freddie with my family.. I feel hopeful too.
❤Favorite vs. delete to start. Genius! Thank you for making a project that's felt overwhelming feel more doable! 😀
So timely. I have so many and you have given me some great tips. Thank you.
Oh my goodness!!! This is so good to know!!! Needed this! I’m so behind in my scrapbooking for my kids, feel lost in photo land
1. Our kids want digital photos not photos in scrapbooks, so spend time labeling the photos instead of physically scrapbooking. 2. Our kids want just a few photos from each year - their friends, them and their pet, action shot of doing their activities, their school class picture, annual family photo. 3. If physically scrapbooking, document a long time period in each book (birth to age 5, 6 to 13, high school) to set a space/container limit, and include report cards, event programs, 1 sample of writing or artwork per year.
Love!!! Thank you!
Thank you for this video.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!
So, so helpful! Favoriting to sort is brilliant! Thank you!
This was so helpful! Thank you!
I LOVED this video! Thank you Dawn!❤
This is a great video! I’ll be implementing these wonderful ideas!
Great interview. Thank you. I’ve realised many of my non-perfect photos are the ones I end up printing or using.. so true .. loved this episode. Thanks.
This is so good!!!!
I’m so happy I found you! 💕
This was great!
This is the exact opposite of how I was doing it. I'm definitely going to start this! I can always go back and delete, which I still want to do, but those photo books won't make themselves! What a gross job. 😆
This was soo helpful!!
So helpful!! Thank you!!
I agree with the advice about favouriting the favourite ones,
still to me it made a huge difference to delete over 20k photos from my phone.
Just the thought of having to look through 1000 junk photos to find the best ones, is still overwhelming. Not to mention that it still takes storage from your phone.
The other problem I had was that I started favouriting very deliberately, every 10th picture starting becoming a favourite...
That was so helpful! Thank you!
Every year I delete 95% of my photos, but will mostly do that once a week or month.
The ones I truly love, I print out and put in a photo album.
And to make space in that photo album, I will declutter old photos.
The plan? 6 photos a year [18x6] of my child growing up and my 3 favourite yearly card/drawing/letter [18x3].
So maybe 164-ish photos in the end.
Into 1 x A4 photo album.
And then as he continues to grow, it'll be another photo album of him and maybe grandkids.
Same for the 2nd kid.
Plus some of the old photos from 2016 and before. Maybe one or two a year for myself and sibling. Maybe the same for my parents and maybe a few even more curated ones of my aunts, uncles, grandparents and maybe great grandparent.
Nothing online or in the cloud.
That is it.
As for videos, I gather every few months and edit them into a long video that I store on UA-cam. Never to be lost until UA-cam dies.
I know without asking or pressuring or telling or pointing or blaming or encouraging or whatever, that the other family members will have dozens or hundreds or maybe thousands of photos of my child to look through.
This is great timing! My husband passed away unexpectedly in January and I'm going through his phone bit by bit (starting with deleting obvious unwanted), there are so many wonderful photos of him and our young kiddos that I hadn't even seen! But it does feel overwhelming to keep the quantities reasonable while keeping everything we may want forever, since there won't be any more. ❤ I started a hub this past weekend with my brother's help, it's good to hear I'm on the right track!
I'm so sorry for your loss. Going through his phone must be such a hard task. 💜
What a lovely way to remember your husband and provide memories of him to your children too. ❤️
Good video. Learned so much
The timing is perfect. I’m right in the middle of organizing 30 years of physical photos from different albums. So much work, but so fun seeing the forgotten photos. I tossed out duplicates and most of the photos of buildings, flowers, animals because I can always download better ones. The local library has a good enough scanner for me to scan and organize those into digital albums. Decluttering photos has been my favorite category!
Question for those who have done this, how do you store photos in photo boxes instead of albums - is storing them in transparent inserts the way to go? Photo Albums are so bulky.
Ohhhhh!! I need this help!!! Toooooo many photos and emails!!
I needed to hear something about digital clutter 😊
I've never laughed so hard in my life. 😂😂 Seriously, I'm on the floor of my living room about to die this was so funny.
Since Ollie is only for apple do you have a recommendation for Android? Thanks for all of the awesome tips. I don't want to leave my child with the responsibility of all the photos!
Yes I need this on android 😭
I have been thinking about this lately. I need to clear off an old computer so we can recycle it. Been thinking about how to do this, so this is timely.
Dawn, unrelated question…may I ask where you got the beautiful wall art behind you? The colors are perfectly matched to my main living area. Thank you.
This 'hearting' sounds like a 'Sunday Basket' task to me.
Ollie seems to be available only for iPhone / Apple Store. Would love to try it. Is there a Playstore Android Version?
Looks like it's time to update the "about me" section of the podcast description - it still says "ages 8-13".😉
This is so helpful because I have been working on photos the past month. I made so many scrapbooks years ago, and a few years ago I took pictures of every page of them for safety if something happened to them. Recently I took pictures of individual photos in the scrapbooks and organized them by years in Google Photo Albums. Is the best way to store them on USB Disks or on a hard drive? Or both? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
That app sounds great! I wish they had it for Android 😢
@MissFreddy how often do you update the local hard drive?
If I move my photos to an album, I am afraid that it will change the date of when the photos were originally taken...?
What is the best option for digitizing photos from grandparents, etc?
Looks like the Ollie app is only for Apple phones. Is the one like this that you'd recommend for Android?
Any app suggestions for Android users?
Do you know what to do to get help with a hard drive that my son dropped?
What is an alternative for Andriod users instead of Ollie??
Any app for Google Pixel 5 phone?? 😔
Help me understand how favoriting helps. Every time I take a series of photos at an event and spend time favoriting them, that favoriting us lost the second I upload the photos onto my laptop.
What app can Android users use? I don't have Apple
is there an alternative to Ollie for android users please?
I have been a paper scrapbooker thus far. However, I don't want to burden my kids with too many books. I'd like to switch to digital books, but a simple version. Is there a digital solution, that is almost like a flip book, where the pictures are inserted, but there is room to write. I want to make it easy to see the words next to the picture. And I don't care about a fancy layout. Ultimately I'd love these books to be on a flash drive, not even printed.
Ollie is only available on iPhone. 😢 I was hoping to use it.
Same 😢 it sounds amazing
Seems to be a consensus against the narrator voice for podcast...just sayin'...
Ugh, creepy intro voice 😮😮😮 And creepy AI. But helpful info
Narrating intro is creepy and inpersonal.
doesn’t fit the minimal mom cozy vibe
Agree! I hate it.
SO agree! It puts me off her podcast, though I love her and her videos
Think of him as a close relative who has been given his big break. You may change your perspective
I agree, the voice is very weird, maybe change it to a female voice, but Dawn herself, is very amazing.