Stories
Notes on finding and using the photos you already have — real photo-management experiences, problems found while building the product and what changed because of them, and practical guides.
- The photo I shared today was at the very back of my friend's screen The sort order was right — newest first. What was wrong was the definition of newest. A photo added to an album shared last month was being treated as a photo from last month.
- You deleted a hundred photos and your iPhone storage didn't move You delete a hundred photos and the number barely changes. There are usually two reasons, and each takes about thirty seconds to check. Then there's the pile that's left at the end.
- Finding a photo from 3 years ago on your iPhone — without the thumb marathon If you've ever tried to find one old photo by scrolling back through years of them. Which route is fastest depends on what you remember — and there are four cases where you'll still end up picking by hand.
- I barely take photos. And I'm building a photo organizing service I take one or two shots on a trip and almost none the rest of the year, so I never had anything to organize. This started with my wife asking twice. The first ask failed, and the second one became this.