6 Creating Your Photo Archive

Organizing decades of photos is a time-consuming project, but a good photo organizing workflow will save you lots of hassle, dead ends, and rework. Knowing where to start is overwhelming for most people, but we use the same organizational system for every Chaos to Memories client, and it’s going to work for you too.

Before I teach you the next steps, let’s review the shortcomings of other organizational systems you might have already tried. The three most common options that seem like a good idea at first are to organize by person, event, or subject. Here’s why you’ll regret each one of them …

By Person: The most common system we see people try is organizing photos by person. The motivation behind this is to untangle ...

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