{
  "id": 4000889,
  "title": "How I sorted 22,000 digital photos without getting overwhelmed: 4 easy tricks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/how-i-sorted-22-000-digital-photos-without-getting-overwhelmed-4-easy",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-28T17:08:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ZDNet",
    "slug": "zdnet",
    "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-sorted-22000-digital-photos-without-getting-overwhelmed/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For a decade, many of us have accumulated a stack of family photos in a closet, preserving precious memories. Today, digital photos have become the norm, but we often overlook the importance of preserving these memories in physical form. Google Photos, for instance, safeguards our digital memories, but what will our children have to remember us by once we're gone? Printing out our photos is not the most convenient solution, especially when we have over 22,000 digital photos stored in our Google Photos account from 2016. However, there are several easy tricks to help us tackle this daunting task.\n\nOne simple method is to utilize Google Photos' daily notifications, such as \"1 Year Ago Today\" or \"On This Day,\" to remind us of specific days and encourage us to review our photos from that day. We can then quickly add our favorites to a designated album that we can later print through services like CVS, Walgreens, or Walmart. By doing this every month, we can work through our entire library within a year and print important memories as they come.\n\nAnother strategy is to maintain a dedicated favorites system while taking pictures. By hearting or favoriting the best shots immediately, we can streamline the printing process later. Services like Chatbooks, Groovebook, and Google Photos Premium Print automatically curate photos from our camera roll, print them, and mail them as mini books or loose photos at a small fee. These services allow us to choose our own photos or use their latest or best picks. By browsing through a specific year's photos, we can easily select a few hundred pictures we'd like printed, which could be accomplished in less than 30 minutes per month. This way, we can print our entire collection in just one year. Lastly, photo printing services are often affordable, with prices ranging from less than 20 cents per picture to even free options offered by some retailers, such as CVS and Walgreens, for their members.",
  "summary": "Want to organize your photos but don't know where to start? Here are my methods for tackling a massive cloud library.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}