Do you have a good system for your phone pics?

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I take lots of photos and videos and take screenshots of things to look into and my phone is always full 😑 I occasionally transfer them to my pc, (but I still like to keep some favs on my phone) but I need some sort of a system( transferring at the start of the month?) to keep it all going and I don’t just want to store them on the pc and never look at them again. The thought of some of these photo memories being lost forever is really making me anxious. I want to select the best ones and print them for a photo album , the old school way or I might try one of those photobooks, with a special theme. All this takes up a lot of my precious time so I really need to find a good system to regularly transfer them, sort them in folders, select for printing, delete off the phone.

Hopefully someone who is better organised than me understands my first world problem and can share some useful tips 😅 thanks

I have an album in my phone which I transfer at the end of every year on to a memory stick and then just print off the ones i loves to put in photo frames around thr house .. I can then delete that year's photos from my phone

I’m the same. It’s a hot mess. Following for help.

@Seriestwo 😅😅 exactly that!
@VanLife33 that sounds ok but I probably take way more photos to be able to do that. Which is why i have this problem haha. I have dogs and a child so I take sooo many photos. I thought I could do something like that each month but I'm not being very consistent 🙄🙄

I just end up paying for more and more iCloud storage and keep it all on my phone, I now pay for the 1TB so hopefully won't fill that up any time soon! I used to transfer to my laptop and delete but tbh I never looked at them after that and seemed pointless and time consuming

I have a terrabyte external drive. Every year in Jan/Feb I download a year's worth of photos from my phone (and DH's who takes more photos and now DCs - but only the ones I want!) to the hard drive. They are also all automatically downloaded to google photos/icloud depending on who. Then I make an annual photo book with the best ones.

So they are all still available for me through google photos on my phone or laptop, on a hard drive in case google loses them (not going to happen) and I have my lovely photo book to look through every year.

Making the photobook does take up a few weeks of evenings and weekends every year but it also lets me relive the memories. For me it's time well spent. You can do it more quickly if you use a tool where you just pick the photos and let it design the book, but I'm too fussy for that.

@Panda34 Idk why but I don't like cloud storage 😑 I guess it is handy though. I would still need a system to select the ones i want to print.
@TeenTraumaTrials which company do you use for photobooks? How many pages do you do?

I use Bonusprinr but think they have merged with someone else now. I do between 80 and 100 pages. Some.pages will have 4 pics and some up to 8 just depending on what they are. Only order when it's 40% off though.

I use iCloud, as it's happens transparently, and syncs across all four of my devices.

I use the photo app on my laptop to organise them, and they sync across the other devices.

If I remember I back up the photo library once a year, but I've never needed it.
I pay £3 a month for 200GB which I consider good value.

What are your objections to using a cloud service ?

I feel the same about iCloud and my objection is privacy, security and ownership.

There’s nothing dodgy - I’m a middle aged mum taking pics of family but I hate the thought of the memories of my little life being ‘owned’ and hackable.

I guess it's a calculated risk, although you retain ownership with iCloud, unlike many other services.