my rooms kind of a disaster right now so I tried to find the cleanest corner I could
so I'm gonna have a lot of cleaning to do after I finish this video but for now I'm gonna tell
you guys about my photo organizing routine so this video is for you if you kind of have
a photo organization system already but you're just kind of sporadically uploading your photos
to where they're supposed to be but if you have like thousands of photos scattered across your
computer and different hard drives printed photos scattered around your house this video is not for
you I'm sorry in this video I'm gonna be talking about my weekly photo organizing routine usually
weekly sometimes bi-weekly if I don't take a ton of photos before I get into it please
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my photo organizing routine depends on having multiple google photos accounts I have three
main ones that I use I have my personal which is connected to my main email account then I have my
blog account which is connected to my blog email that's where I store photos that I take for blog
posts and Instagram photos and the last one is a shared family account where we have like one
of those bigger google photos plans that you have to pay for monthly but that account has a ton of
photos in it so we needed the extra storage that's where I put photos that I want the whole family to
see but before I get to uploading everything to Google photos I first go on my phone and I purge
all of the junk from my camera roll and trust me there is a lot of junk so I get rid of things like
screenshots I usually don't need those I get rid of most memes a few memes are good enough to keep
but most of them I delete and I also have a ton of duplicates because I have a very bad habit
of posting an Instagram photo and then realizing that I want to adjust the editing slightly and so
then I delete it and we upload it so I end up with like five photos that are each indistinguishably
slightly brighter or warmer than each other so I just tapped through and I get rid of all of
those and click delete I also go to my recently deleted folder and just delete everything from
there because while those photos are in there they're still taking up storage on your phone
once I've done that I check on my one second look my one second a day app this is a project
I've been doing this year I'm not the best at keeping up with it I've missed a lot of days
so if I missed any days but I have a video for those days I would just upload it crop it to one
second it's super easy with the one second day video app I'm gonna link to a blog post where I
talked about this app it's super useful I think it's really like a couple of dollars and then I
start uploading my photos so now that I purged my camera roll and it's only photos that I want
to keep I go to my Google Photos app and I select all of the photos that I want to backup from my
phone onto the cloud I like doing this step first because while it's all uploading on my phone it
does take a while especially if I have videos on there then I can do the part of my routine that
is on the computer so as I'm selecting these I'm choosing the photos that I want to keep personally
for myself now just because a photo goes into my personal account doesn't mean it can't also go
into my family account or my blog account but for now I'm just focusing on my personal account while
that's going I grab my computer I open my computer and then I take my SD cards and I put them in one
by one and I check what's on there usually after I upload stuff onto my computer from my SD cards
I don't delete their originals on the SD cards because I know I'm gonna do it at the end of the
week and it's also a good backup to have just in case so usually my SD cards are pretty full
I will go through those and upload everything to my google photos accounts split them between my
personal family and blog accounts the difference on the computer is that I can upload to multiple
accounts at once I don't believe you can do that on a phone but on a computer if you just open up
multiple tabs and sign into different accounts you can have that all going simultaneously so
some of the photos from the SD cards I will put into Google photos and then some of them I will
put onto my computer and it this is if I did like a senior portrait shoot I'm not gonna upload the
two thousand photos that I took all on to Google photos because I don't want to keep all of those
but I do want to have those photos on my computer so that's just an example of how some photos go
to Google photos and some go to my computer but most of them go to Google photos that way it's not
taking up space on my computer and it's all safe on the cloud once that's done I just clear the SD
cards I take them out and I store them somewhere safe next I oh my gosh my water bottle just fell
next I grab my hard drive this is actually my second hard drive because my first one it was
exactly the same as this it crashed I was able to salvage some of it by other means but I learned
my lesson so basically the way that I use this new hard drive is projects that I am in progress
with are on my hard drive and on my computer my computer is very limited space so projects I'm
in progress with are stored in two places which I think is safe enough for my purposes but then
once I am done with the project I make sure that the updated version is on my hard drive and then
I delete it for my computer so that's the next step of my routine I go on my computer and I
make sure that everything on here is updated so like if I wrote a new blog post I'll just drop
the folder of that blog post onto my hard drive and then I will delete all things that I don't
need anymore to save space next I go back on my phone which usually has finished uploading but
sometimes it hasn't and that's just annoying but so the next step is I go back onto google
photos and I again go through my camera roll but this time I'm signed in to my blog account
so I'm only looking at what photos I want to go on that account usually there's not that many of
them so that process goes pretty quickly and I just sit and wait for it and then I go through
and I uploaded all of my family photos again that's usually not a ton but I do have something
I can do while that's going I go back onto my computer and I look at my YouTube footage I really
kind of just started on YouTube I don't have that many videos up yet but it was really important to
me to have all of my footage organized from the get-go especially my b-roll footage I wanted to
have that really nicely labeled and organized so that if in the future I was making a video I
wouldn't have to go and reshoot that I could just go into my archives and pull straight from that
so the system that I came up with and please share if you have a better system because I was honestly
not sure if this was the best way to go about this but I was like I think this will work so
I go through footage I film that week and I label it either talking or b-roll and then I title each
piece of footage with a short but descriptive name and then I go into the details of the video and I
edit the description and I just add any keywords that I think if I wanted to go back and find that
video I would be searching for okay so by now all my google photos are usually uploaded and
if they're not it was a really busy week or if I fell behind my routine for a couple of weeks
I just go and do something else and I let my computer run but usually it's done by then so
what I do is that go into my personal and my blog accounts and I start organizing stuff first I put
things into albums so on my personal account I have albums like schools outings with friends I
have an album for each of the clubs that I'm in pretty broad categories if there was an event
where I took a lot of photos then I'll make an event folder where I just start the name with
a date and then I label what the event was on my blogger account it's a lot simpler I just have a
folder for oh my gosh my arm just felt I just have a folder for fitness and then an album for food
and I think that's it because everything else is just kind of generic photos then I go and tag all
the photos so Google photos doesn't actually have a tagging feature but basically what you can do is
just type things out in your description box and it works the same way because when you go in the
search box and you put in a term it'll like comb through all those descriptions and search for that
word so again I type out everything that I might use in the future to search for that specific
photo or video and it is kind of time-consuming but I really think it's worth it because I've
definitely used that feature before where I needed to find something specific and I could
just put in like oatmeal and it would find all the pictures of oatmeal that I had and also you
just get faster at it especially if you sit down and do it in one sitting and also for example if
you have like an event and you have 100 photos in that event you can copy like your first ten tags
that describe all of those photos and then add the more detail tags that vary between photos and then
it's the last step I don't always do this because sometimes I do want to keep a small archiving of
photos on my phone but the last step is the most satisfying where I go through everything
and delete it at least on iPhone you can't select a delete all option which is probably smart but
so you just have to like have finger agility and go through your entire camera roll like that like
that and that's it so if the reason that I do a photo organizing routine in the first place is
because I hate clutter and digital clutter can really be just as much of a burden as physical
clutter in the same way that physical clutter in our lives keeps us from enjoying our space digital
clutter prevents us from enjoying the memories and so I think the best way to stay organized
with anything is to just tidy up regularly my routine is right in here in my notebook I strongly
believe that every routine we do should be written out somewhere because I think it makes it a lot
easier to keep up with it and to follow it it just takes a little bit of time and that's a matter of
scheduling that time into your day so I hope that this video helped you if it did please give a like
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