If I were to tell you that I’ve now completed 2021 and am working through 2022, you’d probably think that that sounds like terrific progress. But, as I pointed out before, there’s caveats. I blasted through the first 10,000 photos in two weeks, because they were already very well-curated, but it’s taken me two weeks to get through the next 3,000. There are about 10,000 photos left to process, so that’s going to take me about two months, assuming that the pace does not drop any further (which I think might also be overly optimistic).

I’m continuing to take new photos, upload plenty to Pixelfed (now up to 108 posts), and keep those new photos well organised. There was a part of me that was briefly worried that I might find myself deterred from taking new photos, as dealing with those takes time, resulting in less time for progress through the photo archive. But so far, that does not seem to have manifested in any noticeable way.

One of the really nice byproducts of this process is that, by moving photos from a very haphazard system to a more structured one, I’m actually finding and eliminating quite a few duplicates.

Finally, a thing that I may later regret is my decision to treat short video clips as if they were photos, for the purposes of filing. Right now, it feels like if I have a directory full of JPEGs from a holiday, then if there are also one or two MP4s then it makes sense for them to be in there too. Time will tell if this decision was justified.