This Flowchart (and Audio Guide) Will Help You Finally Get Rid of Your Photo Clutter
It has never been so easy to take as many photos as you need, but keeping them all in order and creating backups has never been so difficult. The team at WNYC’s Note to Self, with your sincere help, have put together this flowchart to help you get rid of your photo clutter once and for all.
When Manush Zomorodi , host of Note to Self at WNYC ( check out her interview with us here ), asked the audience what their biggest organizational problem was, they overwhelmingly responded that managing their photos was at the top of their list. This is what everyone has on their to-do list, and everyone has tried several services and approaches to try and fix this problem.
Well, Manush turned to me to see if I could help, and together with her team, we came up with a plan to solve the problem of photo clutter once and for all. Things didn’t go as we expected. After some tweaks and tweaks, we managed to come up with a scheme that will help you get rid of the clutter with your photos, depending on how you feel about your photos.
The flowchart below will walk you through the process of determining which one you are photographing. Once you understand this, the main process boils down to three steps:
- Enabling automatic download to create backups of all your future pictures (and those that are on your device) on the Internet – I offered to Dropbox and Google Photos , both of which we have a guide for mastering, where they are easy to share.
- Pulling any other photos from other sources (your computer, your SD cards or even physical) to these central locations.
- Spend some time organizing your photos in galleries, bringing your memories to life, and sharing those photos with your friends and family.
From there, how deep you get into the weeds with each marker point depends on which one you’re photographing. For more information and an entire step-by-step guide for each type of photographer, click the link below.
You can also listen to the podcast below to hear how Manush and I came up with the plan and how the whole experiment went – not to mention a more philosophical conversation about why we generally take so many photos and participate in our experiment here .
Time To Deal With Your Photos Clutter | Note to myself (WNYC)