16 Maintaining Your Photo Archive

The workflow you’ve learned throughout this book to declutter, organize, and enjoy your photos gives you a clear process to tackle your photo backlog. It’s often a big project, and it takes a long time to catch up on the years, decades, or even generations of photos you want to preserve and enjoy. But that’s all looking back in time.

After (or while) you catch up on your old photos, how are you going to handle the new photos you keep taking? The fifth and final phase of my workflow is all about maintaining your Family Photo Archive. In essence, you’ll use the same organizing workflow on new images, but you’ll work in small batches of new photos instead of big batches of old photos. After you’re caught up on ...

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