{"id":74,"date":"2007-03-21T22:04:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-03-21T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T03:13:54","slug":"the-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/03\/21\/the-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over lunch I was talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oT9XoJLDNjE\">Buzz<\/a>. The topic was digital photos. I take a lot of them. Last weekend I took about 400 pictures. Annually I take about 15,000 photos and have done this for the last several years. Buzz asked how I was ever able to keep track of those pictures. My answer \u2013 \u201cfolders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image75\" title=\"picturefolderlayout.gif\" alt=\"picturefolderlayout.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/picturefolderlayout.gif\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nEverything gets a folder. Without a little planning, I could easily end up with hundreds or thousands of folders all over the place. Here is how I avoid that.<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 All the photos from any given year go into a folder with that year\u2019s number. Right now all my photos are going into a folder called \u201c2007\u201d. All of last year\u2019s photos are in the \u201c2006\u201d folder.<\/p>\n<p>2 \u2013 Every family member gets a folder. I have five kids. Each one gets a \u201cpersonal\u201d folder inside each year folder.<\/p>\n<p>3 \u2013 Personal folders have folders for each major event. Each kid has a birthday and we take a lot of pictures on that day. For this reason, every personal folder has a \u201cbirthday\u201d folder in it. If I am looking for the 2005 birthday pictures of Kid #3 (we have so many kids we have to number them), I look in<\/p>\n<p>\\2005\\kid3\\birthday<\/p>\n<p>4 \u2013 Major family events get their own folder in the \u201cyear\u201d folder. For instance, Easter is a big family event. Not only will there be pictures of our kids, there will be pictures of extended family members. All of last year\u2019s Easter pictures are in<\/p>\n<p>\\2006\\Easter<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s an event that covers multiple days, the \u201cspecial\u201d folder can end up with folders of its own.<\/p>\n<p>\\2006\\Christmas\\At Home<br \/>\n\\2006\\Christmas\\At Alvin\u2019s Parents<br \/>\n\\2006\\Christmas\\Band Concert<\/p>\n<p>By the time we add \u201cpersonal\u201d and special folders, there are about two dozen top-level folders that cover everything. Each year, as we add new pictures, we add the extra folders as needed. As it is right now, none of the kids has a birthday. None of the \u201cpersonal\u201d folders have a \u201cbirthday\u201d folder yet. That will get added when we take some birthday pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Every time new pictures are added to the collection, I synchronize my picture folder with a share on the server. This gives everyone in the house the ability to get to all the photos. Where they go from there, I have no idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over lunch I was talking with Buzz. The topic was digital photos. I take a lot of them. Last weekend I took about 400 pictures. Annually I take about 15,000 photos and have done this for the last several years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/03\/21\/the-folder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}