Huh. I opened up the video and the first thing I thought was, Your hair looks really nice today - soft and loose and slightly wavy - Very free-flowing! Good job, daughter-unit! :-D
Really appreciate this Laura! It really bugged me how chaotic and excessive my photos/videos were in my phone gallery app. This is a great starting point and has inspired me with an approach. Many thanks 👍
About 5 or 6 years ago I decided to just stop taking any pictures. Never regretted my decision. If I really ever need a photo of an event or something, you bet that my friends have hundreds to choose from. Of course, this method is probably not for people who have children, I guess you will want to have pictures of your family... For my life style, it works perfectly and I enjoy not having digital clutter that costs you hours to keep in check or to clear out. I can recommend this approach, it is so freeing. Maybe as an experiment first to get a feel for it. Great video series, Laura!
Good for you! A large chunk of mine are work related but I'm getting much better at clearing most of them out afterwards. It's just gonna require time and persistence. =)
I used to be the yearbook advisor at our school - taking and sorting photos all the time, it seemed. Quickly realized, photographing my son's soccer games, that I wasn't enjoying simply being his mom at his game. Now I take time to pause and enjoy the scene/moment/event with my whole self, no camera interfering. Yes, so freeing!
I have just finished deleting my screenshots. They were from March (2020) until today. I didn't think there were many. How wrong was I? I have deleted 475 screenshots!!! I've got 90 left most if which are recipes or items I'm thinking of buying.... But OMG!!! 😳
Charming moment to see you and your sweetie in the nostalgic photo!!1🤗 I admit memoribila is one of my hardest declutter categories. But some things are just good to keep and reminisce. Be it in phones, a photo album or a memory box , whatever. And it's especially nice to show your children so they can understand their family history as well. Talk about bringing "Joy".💗💗👍💯😊
"Will this photo matter in 5 years?" So powerful!! I've gone through multiple drive failures, multiple recoveries and I am a massive offender to saving way way way too many things!! Now I've been sorting through my stuff for ages and it feels neverending, and recently I've begun to think of all the photos I chose to keep that I don't care for- such as images that just don't matter. I also was pursuing video game content creation for awhile so I have a TON of videos that I have saved that are just entirely useless. It's a nightmare! I do have a solid folder system right now, I just need to spend more time buckling down and getting through this crap.
My cloud app shows me an "on this day" compilation of photos I've taken. Every day I go through it and delete photos and videos I don't want or have no idea why I took in the first place. I get rid of quite a bit every day. When my "cloud" synchs with all my devices, the deletions supposedly happen there as well. No idea how it happens as I have not ever set anything up to do it but I'll take this wondrous magic. My plan is to combine and declutter all the digital and make a few themed photo books or at least some themed slide shows or something. I work on my printed photos when I'm sitting around being bored. They are all in those Michael's photo boxes so it is easy to have one sitting next to my comfy chair. They are set up by date because they were still in the developing envelopes and I always developed my film right away. The negatives are in a big box and I'll probably toss them if I ever scan in all my prints.
One suggestion, eliminate pictures at the point of taking it. Not point spending load of time fixing it later. Yes a good option will it matter in 5 years time is a good start.
This is a big problem for me.I have this weird OCD where I feel if my gallery is cluttered,then my mind is cluttered in some way.Thank you for all tips!
I am reluctant to do this digitally because I didn't back up my computer photos and subsequently lost photos from January 2011 to 2013. But I will see how many digital photos I can delete which are insignificant. I take many photos of food: cooking accomplishments, photos which include foods I was given, etc. I share these with my friends and family. I am a pet sitter, so I take numerous photos of my client's pets to share with her. Most of these can go, too. Thank you!
Interesting video, some of these tips don't really work though because I like to save text conversations with my friends that make me laugh or smile. I also do nature photography so those tree and sky pictures mean a lot to me.
I've been chipping away at mine for quite a while, but I think the whole idea of thinking 'will this matter in 5 years?' outs a whole new slant on things. Thank you and many blessings x x x P.S your hair looks really beautiful - you have a very talented 7 year old x
This video was great from the beginning. Your attitude relaxed me, even if I was internally screaming for the mess in my Google Photo account just one minute before watching it. Thank you!
Great video! I have learned a lot from you. I help a number of small businesses with their IT systems and send out a regular email to tell them for all devices to backup their data, update their computer, update their tax records and balance sheet, and perform a virus check at the end of the month. I am also working on what is called a semantic file system, where files can be found by what they contain rather than the file name - but it's a work in progress. Your hair looks great, Scout shows a great talent.
LOL @ your username. I love it! Your video has given me the motivation to continue sorting. I have 1000s of photos to go through. Thank you for making this video.
Great suggestions! I really didn't want to watch this video...cause I really needed to watch this video. 🥴 I feel like I can do the clean it up now....thanks so much!
It's my last area to declutter. 😅 just did the marie kondo declutter and this is my last spot and I'm done! It's so freeing already can't wait to be fully done
Photos are my clutter stress area. I have two large storage crates with photos and hard drives of photos. Plus enough stored on the Cloud that I am paying for storage. Most are of family and kids. I am slowly curating my collection, but man, it is a slow slog!
Oh god I need this And I need to not pay Apple $10/month for 2TB of cloud data just because I haven’t gone thru all my old photos and videos from the past…… 7 years lmao
Thank you so much, Laura!! My favorite blue sky picture was in April. It was during lockdown, and there was hardly any activity. Less pollution. I live in Southern California, and this was beautiful. So that is special. Your video may be what I need to go through my mom’s pictures. Many of them are duplicates of my wedding. And they used to give a replicate when you developed film Looking forward to your video on the office. That pile, on my right, has existed on my right so nice I started homework in 1st grade! I wish I knew how much your Clutter acutely cost. Knowing there’s a discount is great, but I don’t know the cost without signing up. So I don’t check it out
Yes, there are a few 'blue sky' pictures that have special meanings. 🙂 Full price for the course is currently $197, but the discount gets you $50 off so the total would only be $147.
Google photos will eventually fill up and so I stopped using it. The only “free” solution is storing on your computer or external hard drive. Im working on having my favorites printed, at Walmart it’s $.12 per photo.
Brilliant! I'm so looking forward to tomorrow because I went from laptop to MacBook and I can't open the files. I've got the only clips of my Granddaughter in the sack race at nursery.😂 She's 16 now.😂😂😂 Love the hair.💖
I keep one screen shot on my phone. It’s is a size guide for blankets. I crochet blankets so it’s easy to pull it up on my phone. But I got rid of all the others.
Thanks for the video. Problem: at this point my iphone is not deleting photos when I delete them. How do I actually delete them when I hit "delete" and its not deleting them? Thanks! 4:04
You need to go into the trash folder. Your phone holds them in there for 30 days. Or if they’re literally not deleting it may be because you have an iCloud version stored.
@@HowToGYST Thanks for responding so quickly. I closed the Photos app and started it again, and it seemed to work again 🙂. I think it was either acting up, or becuase I have so little space, it wasn't responding. But thank you for your suggestions! (I don't have iCloud, but thanks. :-) )
OMG! Now you are getting into my territory. I actually have 3 4TB drives, 1 3TB drive, 1 2TB drive, and several 1 and .5 TB drives full of crap..... Granted I'm a 3D artists but there are digital things I go nutso over just cuz I can get them free.....
Labeling/Text ON the photo. I need a photo editor application that will allow me to write on multiple pictures at the same time. Why? I have 15 thousand photos that I am organizing and don’t have the time to be labeling them one by one. The organizing is mostly done already. Among the photos there are trips to Europe in which we visited multiple cities. Want to be able to label the photos taken in chronological order and by location. I already have the photos in the right year and the right month, just want to be able to label them by location within the month I took the picture, following the sequence of the itinerary. I don’t need photo enhancing features for now. That can come later. Just want to be able to place text on the photo that describe the date, location and persons in the photo. While I have the information on the photo file, if I am presenting the photo in a slide show the viewer cannot see the information. The bulk of these photos have been digitized, which means they were not originally digital photos. This means that the properties feature of digital photos is not available in this converted photos. I have organized in files by year and by month (1-12) 15 thousand photos. Most of these photos have been scanned, because digital did not existed in the 80s and 90s. Ten years from now (when we are gone), our children are not going to know where and when the picture was taken, and in some cases, who is in the picture.
I’m not aware of any software that would allow you to write text on multiple photos at a time, unfortunately. You’d have to add text to one and then copy and paste it to all the other relevant photos.
Huh. I opened up the video and the first thing I thought was, Your hair looks really nice today - soft and loose and slightly wavy - Very free-flowing! Good job, daughter-unit! :-D
Really appreciate this Laura! It really bugged me how chaotic and excessive my photos/videos were in my phone gallery app. This is a great starting point and has inspired me with an approach. Many thanks 👍
Your kid is going to go far. I like your hair.
I like the hair too!
We've enjoyed watching your hair journey 😄 Thank you for such great videos to help us get clutter free and keeping us sane during the pandemic! 🙌
About 5 or 6 years ago I decided to just stop taking any pictures. Never regretted my decision. If I really ever need a photo of an event or something, you bet that my friends have hundreds to choose from. Of course, this method is probably not for people who have children, I guess you will want to have pictures of your family... For my life style, it works perfectly and I enjoy not having digital clutter that costs you hours to keep in check or to clear out. I can recommend this approach, it is so freeing. Maybe as an experiment first to get a feel for it. Great video series, Laura!
Good for you! A large chunk of mine are work related but I'm getting much better at clearing most of them out afterwards. It's just gonna require time and persistence. =)
I do the same thing! That way I don't even have to bother owning a camera or having one on my phone.
I used to be the yearbook advisor at our school - taking and sorting photos all the time, it seemed. Quickly realized, photographing my son's soccer games, that I wasn't enjoying simply being his mom at his game. Now I take time to pause and enjoy the scene/moment/event with my whole self, no camera interfering. Yes, so freeing!
I have just finished deleting my screenshots. They were from March (2020) until today. I didn't think there were many. How wrong was I? I have deleted 475 screenshots!!! I've got 90 left most if which are recipes or items I'm thinking of buying.... But OMG!!! 😳
Oh boy, I have a long way to go. Only 90screenshots?
*2 seconds into the video*
Me: "I love her hair"
Charming moment to see you and your sweetie in the nostalgic photo!!1🤗 I admit memoribila is one of my hardest declutter categories. But some things are just good to keep and reminisce. Be it in phones, a photo album or a memory box , whatever. And it's especially nice to show your children so they can understand their family history as well. Talk about bringing "Joy".💗💗👍💯😊
Deleting Screenshots tip was the best one. One of the most relevant videos on photos management tips.
Great video👍
I'm loving your hair!
Thank you for sharing✌💛☺
I love your hair down! She did a great job.
"Will this photo matter in 5 years?" So powerful!!
I've gone through multiple drive failures, multiple recoveries and I am a massive offender to saving way way way too many things!! Now I've been sorting through my stuff for ages and it feels neverending, and recently I've begun to think of all the photos I chose to keep that I don't care for- such as images that just don't matter. I also was pursuing video game content creation for awhile so I have a TON of videos that I have saved that are just entirely useless. It's a nightmare!
I do have a solid folder system right now, I just need to spend more time buckling down and getting through this crap.
One file at a time. You'll get there. 🙂
My cloud app shows me an "on this day" compilation of photos I've taken. Every day I go through it and delete photos and videos I don't want or have no idea why I took in the first place. I get rid of quite a bit every day. When my "cloud" synchs with all my devices, the deletions supposedly happen there as well. No idea how it happens as I have not ever set anything up to do it but I'll take this wondrous magic. My plan is to combine and declutter all the digital and make a few themed photo books or at least some themed slide shows or something. I work on my printed photos when I'm sitting around being bored. They are all in those Michael's photo boxes so it is easy to have one sitting next to my comfy chair. They are set up by date because they were still in the developing envelopes and I always developed my film right away. The negatives are in a big box and I'll probably toss them if I ever scan in all my prints.
What a wonderful system you've got going!
One suggestion, eliminate pictures at the point of taking it. Not point spending load of time fixing it later. Yes a good option will it matter in 5 years time is a good start.
Yes, easier to delete as soon as possible, or avoid taking so many in the first place. But this is more about the ones that have already built up.
This is a big problem for me.I have this weird OCD where I feel if my gallery is cluttered,then my mind is cluttered in some way.Thank you for all tips!
I am reluctant to do this digitally because I didn't back up my computer photos and subsequently lost photos from January 2011 to 2013. But I will see how many digital photos I can delete which are insignificant. I take many photos of food: cooking accomplishments, photos which include foods I was given, etc. I share these with my friends and family. I am a pet sitter, so I take numerous photos of my client's pets to share with her. Most of these can go, too. Thank you!
Interesting video, some of these tips don't really work though because I like to save text conversations with my friends that make me laugh or smile. I also do nature photography so those tree and sky pictures mean a lot to me.
I've been chipping away at mine for quite a while, but I think the whole idea of thinking 'will this matter in 5 years?' outs a whole new slant on things. Thank you and many blessings x x x
P.S your hair looks really beautiful - you have a very talented 7 year old x
This video was great from the beginning. Your attitude relaxed me, even if I was internally screaming for the mess in my Google Photo account just one minute before watching it. Thank you!
You're very welcome. Thanks so much for watching. Really glad you found it helpful, and hopefully it stopped the screaming. 😉
Many practical easy-to-use tips to begin with. Thanks a lot!
So glad you liked it!
Great video! I have learned a lot from you. I help a number of small businesses with their IT systems and send out a regular email to tell them for all devices to backup their data, update their computer, update their tax records and balance sheet, and perform a virus check at the end of the month. I am also working on what is called a semantic file system, where files can be found by what they contain rather than the file name - but it's a work in progress. Your hair looks great, Scout shows a great talent.
LOL @ your username. I love it! Your video has given me the motivation to continue sorting. I have 1000s of photos to go through. Thank you for making this video.
absolutely love your style. bravo. nice video.
I like your hair, also. Thanks for the great information. 😊
Thanks for the idea of organize based on the months, finally was able to organize 2 years of photos!
That’s amazing! Well done!
Your suggestions incredibly helpful!!! Thank you!!
YAY! I'm so delighted they were helpful. 😁
Great suggestions! I really didn't want to watch this video...cause I really needed to watch this video. 🥴 I feel like I can do the clean it up now....thanks so much!
It's my last area to declutter. 😅 just did the marie kondo declutter and this is my last spot and I'm done! It's so freeing already can't wait to be fully done
I like the hairstyle, too!
Photos are my clutter stress area. I have two large storage crates with photos and hard drives of photos. Plus enough stored on the Cloud that I am paying for storage. Most are of family and kids. I am slowly curating my collection, but man, it is a slow slog!
It is, but every time you tackle a handful more you're getting closer and closer to that finish line. Think how incredible that's going to feel!
Oh god I need this
And I need to not pay Apple $10/month for 2TB of cloud data just because I haven’t gone thru all my old photos and videos from the past…… 7 years lmao
Thank you so much, Laura!!
My favorite blue sky picture was in April. It was during lockdown, and there was hardly any activity. Less pollution. I live in Southern California, and this was beautiful. So that is special.
Your video may be what I need to go through my mom’s pictures. Many of them are duplicates of my wedding. And they used to give a replicate when you developed film
Looking forward to your video on the office. That pile, on my right, has existed on my right so nice I started homework in 1st grade!
I wish I knew how much your Clutter acutely cost. Knowing there’s a discount is great, but I don’t know the cost without signing up. So I don’t check it out
Yes, there are a few 'blue sky' pictures that have special meanings. 🙂 Full price for the course is currently $197, but the discount gets you $50 off so the total would only be $147.
LOL, I get anxiety -related chest pain and yep, just over three minutes in, some pretty gnarly chest pain. 😯😲😳😬 ...this one's gonna be rough!!
Aw, I'm sorry to hear that.
Love your hair like that.
25 digital on iPad. No laptop. Cleaned out old files.Nothing on phone. Grown Children have whatever they want.
Google photos will eventually fill up and so I stopped using it.
The only “free” solution is storing on your computer or external hard drive.
Im working on having my favorites printed, at Walmart it’s $.12 per photo.
Brilliant! I'm so looking forward to tomorrow because I went from laptop to MacBook and I can't open the files. I've got the only clips of my Granddaughter in the sack race at nursery.😂 She's 16 now.😂😂😂 Love the hair.💖
Oh, what happens when you try open them? Maybe I can troubleshoot a bit. =)
Hi this is best so far. My digitals have been causing me great anxiety. No one w ever look at em anyway..want to throw file on tv screen too.
I keep one screen shot on my phone. It’s is a size guide for blankets. I crochet blankets so it’s easy to pull it up on my phone. But I got rid of all the others.
Love the hair!
Thank you! 😁
😂 my profile pic is of a random blue sky. It's a beautiful colour. I'm keeping it 😂
The important thing is that it has value to you. =)
what my camera roll is mostly:
* screenshots
* memes
* pictures of my cat
I like your hair like that.
Thank you. 🙂 I’ve been reading the comments to my daughter and she’s thrilled.
One of my biggest regrets is not having my pictures printed from the past 8 or 9 years.
Digital pix are ok but physical pictures are even better.
Now that you've identified a big regret, is it still possible to print some of your digital photos?
Do you still have digital copies? As Sandra says, you can still get the truly special ones printed. 🙂
How to Get Your Shit Together Yeah, I still have all the digital ones. I’ll probably have some printed some time.
Sandra Lantau Yes, I’m going to get some printed.
@@julietannOsfan1972 That's great! Are there any baby action steps you might be able to take towards that goal?
Miss seeing new videos from you! Hope everything is ok. Found a few left from this series I hadn’t finished yet 😊
Just took a bit of a break for September. But a new video coming this Thursday. :D
How to Get Your Shit Together glad to hear it! You deserve a break! 😁
So sort then leave them on the computer? Doesn't seem like I'm using or appreciating them.
Great video! Is there a way to sort and find duplicated photos?
Yes that exists. Do an internet search for software programs that look for duplicate photos.
Thanks for the video. Problem: at this point my iphone is not deleting photos when I delete them. How do I actually delete them when I hit "delete" and its not deleting them? Thanks! 4:04
You need to go into the trash folder. Your phone holds them in there for 30 days. Or if they’re literally not deleting it may be because you have an iCloud version stored.
@@HowToGYST Thanks for responding so quickly. I closed the Photos app and started it again, and it seemed to work again 🙂. I think it was either acting up, or becuase I have so little space, it wasn't responding. But thank you for your suggestions! (I don't have iCloud, but thanks. :-) )
Glad you got it sorted!
OMG! Now you are getting into my territory. I actually have 3 4TB drives, 1 3TB drive, 1 2TB drive, and several 1 and .5 TB drives full of crap..... Granted I'm a 3D artists but there are digital things I go nutso over just cuz I can get them free.....
I have two 8TB, one 4TB, two or three 2TB, and a handful of smaller ones. So yup, I hear ya. Ha ha.
I don’t go back to my screenshots because I can’t find them 😫
Oh? What device do you have?
Labeling/Text ON the photo. I need a photo editor application that will allow me to write on multiple pictures at the same time.
Why? I have 15 thousand photos that I am organizing and don’t have the time to be labeling them one by
one. The organizing is mostly done already.
Among the photos there are trips to Europe in which we visited multiple cities. Want to be able to label
the photos taken in chronological order and by location. I already have the photos in the right year and the right month, just want to be
able to label them by location within the month I took the picture, following the sequence of the itinerary.
I don’t need photo enhancing features for now. That can come later.
Just want to be able to place text on the photo that describe the date, location and persons in the photo.
While I have the information on the photo file, if I am presenting the photo in a slide show the viewer
cannot see the information. The bulk of these photos have been digitized, which means they were not originally digital photos. This means that the properties feature of digital photos is not available in this converted photos. I have organized in files by year and by month (1-12) 15 thousand photos. Most of these photos have been scanned, because digital did not existed in the 80s and 90s.
Ten years from now (when we are gone), our children are not going to know where and when the picture was taken,
and in some cases, who is in the picture.
I’m not aware of any software that would allow you to write text on multiple photos at a time, unfortunately. You’d have to add text to one and then copy and paste it to all the other relevant photos.
not useful