Photo Journal
How you can review your memories before printing.
Today we’re continuing with how to “file” your memories (photos). I’m going to tell you how I use Finder (File Explorer) as a quick reference photo journal.
A few notes to remember:
- This is about organizing virtual files…not having less of them;
- I have just a few photo files (over 40K+).
- I have not printed photos since 2006.
- My back-up plan stinks…
- I have Lightroom. But I do what I describe below BEFORE I import my photos into Lightroom.
- I remember life events in my head like they’re folders, so this works for me.
- When I can’t remember or place an event an in my head, I can find it using Lightroom.
Step #5: When a particular month has a main event, I make the folder description have the date.
- 5.12 Graduation = May 12 was Vince’s Graduation day;
- 5.15 Graduation Party = May 15th was his Graduation Party.
In 2013 when we went to the Philippines we did lots of different big events, sometimes we had several in one day. So, I made multiple folders with the same date and each different event.
- 5.24 Making Stick Brooms = this was a single event on this day, all photos of making the stick brooms are in this folder.
- 5.24 Trimming… = this was another single event on the same day. You’ll notice “| Bird Nest” is there too. This is because while trimming the mango tree in our back yard, we found a bird nest. All photos from the two-hour block of time are in the same folder.
What I really like: at a glance I can mentally “travel” through our Philippine trip. Days I miss being there, I can take a trip through my memories and anything I want to see a pic to go with the memory – open the folder & look at those pictures.
At the end you can see folders labeled: Cousin Life; House we stayed in; Just pretty sights; Sunsets | Walks | Life; and T-City Life. These folders have duplicates of photos of the topic labeled. Cousin Life = random photos of the cousins just hanging, daily life. not necessarily a “big” event.
**Please note: I DO NOT believe this is completely sufficient for journaling memories! My ever-growing to-do list is to sort/identify/print the good photos and for-real life scrapbook them. :-D
