...it's too much trouble to go over the thousands of photos on camera memory cards to select the hundreds applicable to boats which you might enjoy. And that's not counting of digital photos of printed photographs.
I see this as one of the largest unrecognized problems of the age we live in.
After a digital photo is taken, then what? A few may live for a couple of days on Facebook, or flit by on Instagram. But after that, they're totally lost to history. No-one ever goes back to look at them.
Some of the social media and cloud storage sites now send you "what you were doing last year" links, but beyond that, they're all as good as gone, never to be seen again.
Some people have a system to organize them on a computer, and make backups. I try, but it's an ongoing effort. If you get behind, it's very hard to catch up.
Cloud storage sites and operating systems try to make the job easier by sorting them by date, and performing face recognition, which is certainly better than a jumble of random file names starting with "IMG" or "DSC."
But in the end, what do you do when you want to find that picture of your genset control box you took when you were in Port Someplace? That great sunset with the catamaran and seagull in the foreground? That time your cousin went out fishing with you and caught the big one?
One of the handiest tools I've found is a program called "Advanced Renamer." It lets you highlight a list of files and edit the name. For example, keep the date/time stamp that your camera puts in the file name, but replace the rest of the letters with something meaningful like the place you took the picture. That, along with a halfway meaningful folder structure, is about all I have energy for.
Given enough time, I could go through and "tag" each photo with keywords for future searching. But that's not likely to happen. I'm also reluctant to let cloud storage sites do face recognition and store even more information about me and everyone I know than they already have.
