Monday, January 4, 2021

Photo Management

My new process for uploading photos is something I'm decently happy with. It revolves around using my app Memuhree and some commands to rename images. The process works as follows.

  1. I take my photos on my iPhone (or receive photos from friends and family via AirDrop) and save them to the camera roll

  2. I AirDrop those photos from my camera roll to my Mac via a custom iOS shortcut

  3. I run this script on those images which are usually just in the /downloads directory

    exiftool '-filename<CreateDate' -d '%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%le' .

    this gives them names with dates and times such as 2021-01-04-12-56-36.jpeg

  4. If those images aren't renamed properly (sometimes friends use weird apps to transfer their photos and they don't include Exif data) I just use the Renamer app, the best solution is often just to use date created

  5. I then pick the best photo from the given day and upload it to Memuhree with a description and a location