Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation by the Numbers (Premium)

This morning, I finished cleaning up the photo collection I fully consolidated last week after several months of work. It’s time to reflect on an awful job that, in many ways, will never really be done: I still have scanned photos to organize and incor… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation by the Numbers (Premium)

Digital Decluttering: Tagging, Deduping, and Replicating the Photo Collection (Premium)

With my photo collection consolidation project finally completed after several months of work, it was time to move on to the next steps: Cleaning up the photos (which involved ensuring that all of the photos have reasonably good “Date taken” meta-data,… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Tagging, Deduping, and Replicating the Photo Collection (Premium)

Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation Mission Accomplished (Premium)

I thought I was winding down major combat operations in my photo consolidation project in early January. At the time, I had consolidated all three of my overlapping photo collections into a single master collection, and thanks to my growing experience … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Consolidation Mission Accomplished (Premium)

Digital Decluttering: Resolutions (Premium)

Dumped unceremoniously into 2024, this feels like a good time to look back at the digital decluttering work I took on last year, provide a progress update, and then look ahead to what I hope to accomplish in the new year.
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Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidated Through 2012 (Premium)

In late November, I discussed my new strategy for consolidating my three photo collections into a single archive that I would then replicate to multiple locations. This past Saturday, a bit over two weeks later, I finally finished the first phase of th… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidated Through 2012 (Premium)

Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidation is Back on Track (Premium)

The kids—who are both adults now—were home for Thanksgiving and so I finally asked them about the digital photo collection as part of a conversation about the work my wife and I have done over the years to downsize and that I have done, especially … Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Photo Collection Consolidation is Back on Track (Premium)

Google Announces New AI Photo Features for Pixel 8 Series

At its Made by Google event today, Google announced some amazing AI-based photo features to complement its new smartphones.
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Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max Day 2: Configuration, AV, Dynamic Island, First Photos, More

I finally spent some time using the new iPhone and continue to be impressed, including with a feature I had previously dismissed.
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Digital Decluttering: Some Photo Progress, and a Shift to Documents (Premium)

Two weeks ago, I started the time-consuming process of organizing, tagging, and archiving over 21 GB of scanned photos as part of a new digital decluttering initiative. Today, I am happy to report that I’ve concluded that work, and less happy to report… Continue reading Digital Decluttering: Some Photo Progress, and a Shift to Documents (Premium)