1) The document discusses the author's photo management over time, from physical photo albums in the late 1990s to digital photos in the 2000s which were unorganized. 2) Recently in undergrad from 2004-2008, the author had thousands of photos stored across devices and accounts with partial backups but no defined organization system. 3) Now the author uses folder-based organization in Picasa on their Mac along with Dropbox synchronization across devices and online photo sharing through social networks and web albums in a privacy-conscious manner.

1. A Day in the Life of my Photos
Ramanujam Parthasarathy
CS 6604 : Personal Information Management
Spring 2010

2. Flashback!
• Physical Photo Albums
(Till late 90's)
• Stepping into the digital era
(Early 2000's)
• Photo management.... What?
• Click, transfer and forget!

3. Cameras
1998-------------2004------------2008

4. Recent Past
• Undergrad in India (2004-2008)
• Windows XP desktop
• 40 GB hard disk
• No defined organizing style
• Few thousand pictures
• Flickr for sharing/online storage
• Multiple accounts to cut costs
• Partial backups in CDs/HDDs
• Hard-disk to hard-disk transfer using
SATA cables

5. One Day...

6. ... Lesson Learnt!

7. Folder Based Org

8. Picasa for Mac
One-click Web Sync

9. Device Organization
Dropbox
Macbook Pro Windows/Ubuntu
iPhone
Webserver Local HDD

10. Online Organization
• Social Networks
• Facebook - Folder/event
• Orkut - Folder/event
• Twitpic (Twitter) - Unorganized
• Web Albums
• Picasa Web - Folder/event
• Flickr - Unorganized

11. Privacy Based Org
Same album/folder containing same
pictures
100 pictures 50 pictures 20 pictures

12. To Ponder!
Change in organization manner
• Size of the pictures
(200kb per pic in 2002 --> 2MB per pic)
•Cost of storage
•Free- Dropbox/PicasaWeb
•WebServer/Cloud - very economical
•Better photo organization tools
•Change in devices/cameras/phones.

13. Thoughts? Comments?