Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is how to organize your pictures on your computer. The quick and dirty tip is to use a good

program that lets you tag photos and navigate via a tag cloud. How to organize digital photos.

Listener VN writes,

With the popularity of digital photos,

I have difficulties organizing the thousands of digital photos on my computer hard drive.

I am a very organized person, and I would welcome your advice.

In the past, we had only memories.

Like the time Mom ran through the supermarket with an apple pie on her head yelling,

Equal rights for all, and then tore open her blouse in solidarity with oppressed workers.

That was great.

If we'd had cameras, we would have captured the moment.

And reviewed it years later to discover that Mom had actually picked up a package of apple pie filling,

and her blouse

remained closed. That photo would remind us that what she really said was,

I need equal portions of green and red apples, right? I wonder if one of the workers can find

some. Memory is notoriously faulty. Fun, but faulty. Digital cameras have changed all that.

You can capture 525,600 pictures. You just can't find

them because they're so disorganized. You need to organize them the way you plan to retrieve them,

even though you don't know what that is yet. The answer is tags. Organize your pictures

the way we organize members of endangered bird species.

With tags. With birds, we put tags around their little ankles and send them into the wilderness.

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