Suggestions on organizing in iPhoto
I wanted to find out some of your opinions on a basic approach to organizing images I am considering doing with my images in iPhoto '08...any pros and/or cons you can respond back with would be appreciated!
I am looking at my events in iPhoto and I see about 7 different one's for each of 7 different weddings I've attended; I see about 30 total events for each of the major family holidays over the last several years (X-Mas, Thanksgiving, etc.); and so on and so on...
I was thinking about perhaps keywording each of the images in each of the wedding events using the names of the people who got married, then simply merging all 7 wedding events into a single event (perhaps creating an album out of each before doing so)...I'd then do the same thing for each of the family holidays (merging 30 events into a single event, after keywording appropriately and creating albums out of each event as necessary)...
Anyone have any thoughts on this approach? Pros? Cons?
Thanks!
What do you find useful to name Event Titles?
As I said above:
I use Events as a crude basic organisation - big buckets of picture: Winter 07, Feb-May 08, Italy 06.
But I could as easily use 'Old Family Pics' if that's what the event folder contains.
Do you change the "title" of the individual photos (from say IMG0005) to something more meaningful?
Yes. Pics in my Library will be titled something : Spring 06 (H) 1234. The first part is self-explanatory, the (H) refers to whose camera and the number is supplied by the Photos -> batch Change command.
Some specific photos I may title for a specific purpose, but with 20k photos in iPhoto, there's not that much time...
In Descriptions of each photo do you repeat the info you might have already listed in the Events Title or photo title or keywords?
I see no point in repeating data. It doesn't become any more searchable.
In other words how redundant do I want to get? Is more better or does it confuse iphoto?
Repeated information adds nothing, more will not confuse iPhoto.
Regards
TD
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The first thing to remember with iPhoto is that you do all your work in the iPhoto Window. When you talk about the Originals Modifieds etc., you're looking into the iPhoto Library Folder in the Finder. Don't, in a word. There are no user serviceable parts there. Bluntly, making changes in the iPhoto Library Folder will corrupt your library.
iPhoto is a database, and like any database it requires that you manipulate the data via the app itself, and not through a back door. So, in the iPhoto Window you can create albums, Smart albums based on date, keywords and many other criteria or in Rolls. Make slideshows, edit your pics and so forth. Everything you need to do can be achieved via the iPhoto Window.
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically.
If you need to access your files: There are three ways (at least) to get files from the iPhoto Window.
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
To upload to MySpace or any site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use THIS
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser. Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Also, for 10.5 users: If you use the extended Open or Attach dialogue (with Column View) you can scroll to the bottom of the Shortcuts and find the Media browser there. Select any pic you want from there.
BTW here's how the iPhoto Library Folder is laid out: A Note about the iPhoto Library Folder:
In this folder there are various files, which are the Library itself and some ancillary files. Then you have three folders
Originals are the photos as they were downloaded from your camera or scanner.
(ii) Modified contains edited pics, shots that you have cropped, rotated or changed in any way.
This allows the Photos -> Revert to Original command - very useful if you don't like the changes you've made.
(iii) Data holds the thumbnails the the app needs to show you the photos in the iPhoto Window.
Rolls in the iPhoto Window (View -> Film Rolls) correspond exactly with the Roll Folders in the Originals Folder in the iPhoto Library Folder. You can move photos between Rolls, you can rename rolls, edit them, create them, as long as you do it via the iPhoto Window. Check out the Info Pane (wee 'i', lower left) the name and date fields are editable. Edit a Roll Name using the Info Pane, the Roll Folder in iPhoto Library Folder/Originals will also have the new name.
Regards
TD -
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Hope this helps,
D. -
Hi,
I am new to iPhoto I am trying to organize my pictures but I am not sure how to start. I am not to familiar with iPhoto and wanted to read some suggestions.
Folders and Albums: how to organize pictures either in folders or albums? What is the difference?
Once organized in step 1, do they stay in both locations? How can I view in either the folder or album? I am currently able to view them in both.
I am curious about the tagging but not sure on how it will work?
thanks!Basic elements of iPhoto:
Events hold pictures. Every picture is in an Event.
Events are organisation for those who can't really be bothered. They are automatic - based entirely on Date and Time the camera records the photos as taken. You can move photos between Events, you can Merge Events, you can Rename them and sort them in various ways except one: You cannot manually sort in an Event as Events are all automated.
Albums hold pictures but they reference the Photos in the Events. So while a photo in two Events uses double the disk space, it can be in as many Albums as you like with no wasted space.
Folders hold Albums. You cannot put a photo into a Folder in iphoto.
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively. I title the pics broadly.
I keyword on a
Who
What
Where basis (The When is in the photos's Exif metadata). I also rate the pics on a 1 - 5 star basis.
Using this system I can find pretty much find any pic in my 40k library in a couple of seconds.
So, for example, I have a batch of pics titled 'Seattle 08' and a typical keywording might include: John, Anne, Landscape, mountain, trees, snow. With a rating included it's so very easy to find the best pics we took at Mount Rainier.
File -> New Smart Album
set it to 'All"
title contains Seattle
keyword is mountain
keyword is snow
rating is 5 stars
Or, want a chronological album of John from birth to today?
New Smart Album
Keyword is John
Set the View options to Sort By Date Ascending
Want only the best pics?
add Rating is greater than 4 stars
The best thing about this system is that it's dynamic. If I add 50 more pics of John to the Library tomorrow, as I keyword and rate them they are added to the Smart Album.
In the end, organisation is about finding the pics. The point is to make locating that pic or batch of pics findable fast. This system works for me. -
How do you have things organized in iPhoto?
I'm in the process of organizing everything on my PowerBook. Currently I only use iPhoto for pictures that I want sync'd to my iPod. I really don't want to put all my photos in iPhoto, but I'm not sure.
I'd like to hear how you guys use iPhoto. Do you have all your pictures in it? Only the good ones from different events? What else?
I'm so used to the way I've been organizing photos in the past 6 years I've had a digital camera, it's hard to chance.John
I have all my 16k pics in iPhoto. iPhoto is accessed by various family members from 10+ and has demonstrated itself to be robust and capable.
For my money (and your mileage may vary, of course) I keep things simple. By that I means I have one way to do a job and stick to it. So, rather than having some photos in iPhoto and some in my own system - with the risk of getting confused between the two and losing stuff because I'm not sure what's where - I work on the KISS principle. It's stood me in good stead.
The other comment I would make is that - and I'll make a wild guess here - organising your files in folders based on date is so limited. I suggest that it's like rooting through an old showbox of pics by looking at the back of the prints rather than the actual photographs. After all, what's important about the pic? The date it was taken? Or the fact that it's your favourite pic of your dog and cat ever?
iPhoto is a database, and it has unlimited ways to organise your pics. Personally, I keyword extensively: Who, What, Where (the When is in the Exif), I rate the pics. I cna create Smart Albums of all my favourites, all my favourites without my dog shots, all my dog favourites only, all the pics I really should trash but haven't got around to...
It's safe, fast, powerful and easy. For me it's a no brainer.
Regards
TD -
Master plan for organizing in iPhoto 11
I have 12, 000 pictures. I have not organized this well and am trying to do it right.
Suggestions please:
1. What is the best way to use iPhoto Libraries? Is it a good idea to have many Libraries so that they are less overwhelming, unruly, and too hard to deal with corruption? Maybe have one Library for "Early Family years", one for "geneology", one for "past 5 years" etc?
2 What about within each Library? Is it best to use Events for dating a group of pictures as if it returned to you as a roll of pictures developed for certain dates?
3. I don't see Folders in iPhoto 11. Do they still exist? What is the best way to use Folders? Maybe have a Folder such as "Favorites" or a Folder for "Desktop pictures" attempting to organize by use or theme?
4. Finally, what about Albums? Should I be conceiving Albums as a way of putting all my pictures in an Album for a certain year, or a certain "event" such as trips or birthdays?
What is the best way to start fresh? I need help with a concept of how to organize and move forward.
ThanksWith all due respect to Terrence, 'making it a project, working on it every week' is an awful idea, impossibly daunting, and unlikely to ever get done. How is that any easier than sorting through shoeboxes upon shoeboxes of prints like our parents did (I mean, never did)?
Remember a filing system is like a sewer: what you get out of it is a direct result of what you put into it. It's unlike the shoeboxes because this is a system that makes searching of the "shoeboxes" possible. If you lack the application to develop a filing system, then you're only way of searching will be by scrolling.
but is there a way to do mass-tagging? I'm thinking of quickly selecting, say 1000 pics and type 'Alyssa' and 'Paris', and they're all done, instead of looking at each one by one to add the tags..
Yes. The keyword is added to all the pics selected.
- Where are the pictures stored? (directory structure).
In the iPhoto Library. That's in your Pictures Folder. Want to look inside? Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Standard warning: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things,, deleting them or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
To use another editor with iPhoto
You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Note: this is really important. Iphoto is a database. You never directly access the files in the Finder.
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
(Note the above illustration is not a Finder Window. It's the dialogue you get when you go File -> Open)
You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running:
For users of 10.6 and later: You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu.
Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and 10.5 Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
Drag and Drop: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
Show File: a. On iPhoto 09 and earlier: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. 3.b.
b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
If something ever goes bad, or I change my mind, I'd like to just copy everything from a root point.
If "something goes bad"
That's what your back up is for. As you can see from looking inside the Library, there's nothing done to the files, they are just stored.
or I change my mind,
That's what File -> Export is for. Apps like iPhoto2Disk or PhotoShare will help you export to a Folder tree matching your Events.
Can you change the size of a bunch of pics all at once?
Yes. In the export dialogue. You can export and resize in batches.
Regards
TD -
Is it just me, or is iPhoto really difficult to be organized in?
First of all, whenever I take a picture in the Photo Booth and drag it to my iPhoto, and later I go through Photos > iTunes > Originals > etc., they all are individually in Roll 1, Roll 2, Roll 3, etc. folders. Why does it do that? For example, I just recently took a bunch of photos in the Photo Booth and dragged them to iPhoto and now I have a TON of Roll # folders in the iPhoto Library folder (in the HD).
I just need tips on how to keep my photos organized. It is so confusing in iPhoto. Why is everything organized by dates? Some of them are not right, but whenever I look at the photos in the iPhoto folders or whatever I have to just know what they are by date?
I can't even explain myself it's so complicated.I think part of the confusion you might be having is that iPhoto let's your store your photos in several different ways, and I can see how that could be very confusing. I'll try to briefly explain how I see that storage options. First, you might want to explore the various menu options, because you can change how you view / browse your library. For example, you can view by film rolls, or hide the film rolls entirely. It does take a little experimenting to find the view options that show you your photos how you'd like to see them.
So, here goes. The iPhoto library is like a big shoebox into which you can throw all of your photos. But since that isn't very useful for sorting or finding a photo, it gives you a whole lot more options.
First, Film Rolls. In general, iPhoto puts all the photos you add to the library at one time into a new "film roll". You can name a film roll, or view your whole library by film rolls. Now in the case of adding photos one-by-one, this clearly isn't going to be what you want. Fortunately, iPhoto lets you move photos from one roll to another, or combine whole film rolls. To move photos from one roll to a different roll, just view the library by Film Rolls (using the view menu), and then drag photos from one film roll into another film roll. Or drag an entire film roll into another. Film rolls are basically just a grouping of photos that makes logical sense to you -- and by default they are based on "batch" of importing. This works well for, say, digital camera users. When I get home from a trip, I connect my camera, and all the photos from that trip upload into a single film roll. Hopefully, that makes sense.
Then, iPhoto lets you further group photos into Albums. Albums are any collection of photos you want to have -- all of the photos are still in film rolls too, though -- it's not that a photo is either in a film roll or in a photo album. Photos are always in one film roll but can be in many albums.
Here's an example. I go on a trip and go to Badlands Nat'l Park one day, then Wind Cave Nat'l Park the next day, then Teddy Roosevelt Nat'l Park the third day. I connect my camera each night, so when I'm done with my trip, I have three film rolls, one for each day of my trip.
Now, I make one photo album into which I put, by drag-n-drop, my favorite photos from my whole vacation -- photos selected from all three film rolls. Again, the photos are still in those film rolls, so I see them when I look from there, but they are also in that photo album - so I see them when I've selected that photo album. (And I could share the photos from the album via a web page, or have them printed, etc.) Again, the photo album is just another grouping of photos that you've selected to put into that group.
Now, I decide I want yet another photo album, but this one to be my best animal picture from ALL of my vacations. So I choose my best photos from this years vacation above, and make a new album of my best animal pictures. But then I can also add pictures to this animal album from my vacation three years ago, and from my trip to the zoo last month or from that squirrel in my back yard in February 2003. All of those photos will still be in their original film rolls, so I can find them by date, but they will also be in the new "Animals" photo album that I've created.
I'm hoping this is making sense. Having multiple ways to view photos can be complicated, but it also provides a whole lot of possible options and capabilities.
There are lots more options beyond these, those, like keywords and smart albums. But there's not enough space to describe all of those here. If you're still interested in all of this but a bit baffled, you might want to check at a good bookstore, like a Borders or a computer store like an Apple store if there's one near you, because there are several books about using iPhoto that have been written to help folks understand the capabilities better. I'd suggest you browse through the book, and make sure it describes things how you like, as some of the books are very simple, and some are very complex.
Hope this helps! iPhoto can really be useful, but I agree, it can also be confusing! Good Luck!
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Before I got the new iLife update my photos, when uploaded, would automatically be saved by iPhoto under Pictures>iPhoto Library> Year (eg. 2006)>Month (12)>Day (01).
Now, however, since installing the upgrade iPhoto automatically saves my pictures in either Modified or Originals and then organizes them by rolls (eg. Roll 138). This has made it much harder to find photos when I want to send them to somebody.
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This has made it much harder to find photos when I want to send them to somebody.
All you need to do is select the photos in iPhoto that you want to email and click on the email button at the bottom. It will open Mail, insert the photos in the size you choose, and you're on your way.
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Ok, so here is my issue:
Over 12,000 photos
Over 65GB
New camera that doubles the average file size of most previous pics to ~3MB
I've thought about starting a new library and archiving the current one, but there is one thing I am scared of: having an old library sitting around and not getting progressively updated. The times I have had problems with my library have been when skipping between versions of iPhoto and the library essentially gets "combo" updated (not the program itself, but when it updates the library files as it often does).
I don't think I would like to access the library from an external. It was a mess when I did it with iTunes, and regardless of available space, I think a new library that doesn't have any left over data from when it was started in 2002-2003 would be a good idea.
With that out of the way:
What are your ideas?
What have you done for this?
Just in case there is a drastic change like Final Cut X, or it is dropped like iWeb/iDVD in 10 or 100 years in the future, how can I make a clean backup that does not rely on iPhoto? ("show package contents" is just messy as I have many modified and don't require the originals in those cases.).
Any thing else that I haven't thought of, or any sites you could point me to or personal experiences with this would be great. Thank you!There are several different questions in there.
I've thought about starting a new library and archiving the current one, but there is one thing I am scared of: having an old library sitting around and not getting progressively updated.
Simple solution: keep progressively updating it? In other words, use it all the time. Move your existing Library to an external drive.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
Some Notes:
As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
You can keep the Library on the external updated with new imports using iPhoto Library Manager
Think of it this way: You have a Master Library which contains everything and another which contains more current material.
I don't think I would like to access the library from an external. It was a mess when I did it with iTunes, and regardless of available space, I think a new library that doesn't have any left over data from when it was started in 2002-2003 would be a good idea.
There is no reason not to use an external as described above, This is also true of iTunes. I have no idea why you might regard it as a benefit not have data from 2002. It's much more convenient to have all the data in one Library.. If it was a mess when you did it with iTunes then respectfully I suggest that maybe you didn’t do it right . My iTunes Library runs to hundreds of gigs so it has to reside on externals, and does with no problems.
Getting Photos out of iPhoto is simple and safe: File -> Export. You can choose to export Masters. Or just current versions and so on.
Apps like iPhoto2Disk or PhotoShare will help you export to a Folder tree matching your Events. -
Suggestions and enhancements for iPhoto 8
a) Keyword management. iPhoto 8 is much better than 7, however there should be a way to type in (not select from a list) keywords for multiple selected photos. Just like Keyword Assistant. I need to quickly tag a large amount of selected photos, and clicking the scrollable keyword list is too confusing. Keep the scrollable list, but do provide a typing box to quickly jump to the desired keyword. E.g. typing "L" "o" should bring up London and Los Angeles very quickly.
b) Shrink photos. I shoot photos at maximum resolution, and then drop the resolution of the not-so-good pictures, or those that I have no intention of enlarging. The good ones, I keep at maximum resolution. I have created a shell script which wraps around Apple SIPS (Scriptable Image Processing System) command-line to reduce the megapixels of the photos that I want to shrink. I do this in 3 stages - 1. using applescript, generate a list of photos with the full file paths, 2. using jhead, determine the EXIF resolution of each photo and add it to the list, 3. using a shell script, use SIPS to reduce the resolutions of these photos. It would be nice to see this function built into iPhoto itself, with a choice of dropping the resolution to 6 MP, 4 MP, 3.2 MP, 2 MP, etc. It should be able to tackle landscape and portrait orientations automatically.
c) CDs for non-Mac (Windows, Linux) computers. The current procedure, to export the photos to a file folder and burn them wastes too much space, and is a work-around. iPhoto should be able to do a simple folder-wise burn to CD, without keeping any library metadata
d) Photo portability: Embed comments, titles and keywords in the EXIF data of the photos itself, so that the photos become extremely portable. In case the library metadata is destroyed, it is easy to get back information from backed up JPGs itself. Also, exporting to web albums is easy and preserves more metadata.
e) Library database: It is time to move to SQLite and drop the clumsy XML format. Please please please! Just like Mail.app.
f) Movie clips during slideshows: Allow playback of movie clips within the iPhoto slideshows. Right now, the only way to do it is to pause the show, have QT player open on the side, show the clip (in non-fullscreen) and then come back to the show. *****.
g) Calendar based photo selection, e.g. what photos have been taken in the month of April 2007? Or what photos taken on June 22nd 2007. Please bring the feature back from iPhoto 7.saumil
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iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
However, some comments:
b) Shrink photos.
The philosophy of iPhoto is to perform all operations on a copy of the file - so doing this would actually use more disk space, not less. For my money the risk of data loss if this philosophy is changed for some operations is too great.
The current procedure, to export the photos to a file folder and burn them wastes too much space, and is a work-around.
How does that waste space? Just trash the exported pics after burning.
d) Photo portability: Embed comments, titles and keywords in the EXIF data of the photos itself, so that the photos become extremely portable. In case the library metadata is destroyed, it is easy to get back information from backed up JPGs itself. Also, exporting to web albums is easy and preserves more metadata.
You can do this using the File -> Export command currently in v7.
e) Library database: It is time to move to SQLite and drop the clumsy XML format. Please please please! Just like Mail.app.
Um, this happened back with v6, that's what the main database file is (library6.iphoto). The xml file is what other apps read to integrate with iPhoto.
f) Movie clips during slideshows: Allow playback of movie clips within the iPhoto slideshows. Right now, the only way to do it is to pause the show, have QT player open on the side, show the clip (in non-fullscreen) and then come back to the show. ***
Not what you want to hear, but this is currently available in PhotoPresenter.
g) Calendar based photo selection, e.g. what photos have been taken in the month of April 2007? Or what photos taken on June 22nd 2007. Please bring the feature back from iPhoto 7.
You mean what you get if you click on the magnifying glass in the search window and select date?
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I just installed iPhoto 11'. I am trying to make a book for a business and NEED to organize my photos manually. I does not let me, I tried the steps presented in the tutorial. No luck! Buy the way, what happened with iPhoto, it thinks everything needs to be done for you automatically! LOL, Apple, we do have a proficient brain, you know!
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I have been unable to create a custom film roll. I followed advice in the forum to krenkelt on May 11, 2008 by smtr but it has not worked for me. In File, when I click on create film roll nothing happens.
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You must have at least one file selected in the iPhoto Window for that option to be available. You cannot create an empty Roll.
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Suggestions for Organizing Mail?
I am new to Mac and I'm learning.
As a former Windows user, I loved the ability to edit the subject line of incoming email in Outlook. I'd use this feature to enter due dates, then sort bill notification emails according to due date and drop them in a 'Bills' folder. I'd also keep unpaid bills marked unread so I could quickly see the number due.
Mail does not allow me to edit the subject line - as far as I can tell. I can mark unread, but I still haven't found a way to enter a due date for sorting.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can organize and sort similar to how I did in Outlook?
Thanks!You could create a to-do from an incoming message, and set dates priorities etc. which are able to be sorted by date.
More details shown here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/15160.html
I was also a former windows user and found the following useful.
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Organizing a iPhoto album in a shared iCloud stream?
I created a Photo Album arranged and retitled all of the photos and shared it to iCloud as a stream. Now the stream reverted to ALL of the original photo titles and sorted by the meaningless titles???? How can I organize a shared stream?
Photo Streams only sort by date. So if you want to get the PS to display in your order select the photos in your album and use the Photos ➙ Batch Change ➙ Set Date to ➙ Date menu option with the checkbox checked to add a given interval between photos.
Then recreate the Shared Photo Stream. That should leave the photos in the order you want.
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