Second, I’d love this to be like Obsidian. Takes care of the organization without dumping it in a local database with metadata. As part of my digital chores, I back up and export a copy of each month’s photos from Apple Photos. I want to organize them decoupled from Apple’s App. Will “Photo Organizer” do that? The idea is that any Picture Viewer in the future should just be able to browse the folders and show me around, organized into whatever organization pattern I do now.
It is the same for me. Looks like there is an `overflow:hidden` style applied to the body for some reason
Edit: Tried a different browser, there is a cookie popup that was getting blocked. I think that is blocking the scroll
Because I got the popup, clicked no and I could scroll after.
His website got big cookie popup, and adblocker remove it. Leave us unscrollable site.
maybe there should not be consent screens popups that break? or any popups? or any consent screens? and why there is consent for something anyways? and maybe there should not be any tracking (or at least not broken one)
It's easy to imagine merging photos of people in the same scenic spot, but how about the photos of those people in the same hotel room bed doing whatever? :)
But the headline says "APPLE SPYING ON YOUR PHOTOS!!11" and that's it. Nobody bothered to spend 5 minutes reading the whitepaper. It was on-device CSAM detection all over again.
Can anyone recommend a tool like the old old acdsee? Just browse random folders, display a preview and be able to delete photos?
Because my problem is a photo library where I should probably delete 90% of it. But all those advanced photo managers with functions for pros (or even Apple Photos, which I gave up on) make this particular operation extremely slow.
Only problem is the tool would need to read my mind to decide which 10% are worth viewing.
Might as well do a manual delete pass at that point...
That's no good reason to fill it with 20 photos of the same butterfly.
And how will I even find the butterfly? It's lost within the 200 photos of the same hills.
Do not assume I ever pruned photos before downloading them off my phones and cameras, because I did not.
Use Llava or similar to generate text descriptions of all of your photos, then search for "butterfly".
This stuff is why I don't like it when tools ship cosmetic filters with their ad blockers by default, because the website looks broken when the issue is actually Brave (and various other ad blockers) messing up.
I have a question: Can your tool detect duplicates with lower resolution? A typical use case would be images received via chat apps, which are often downscaled to save bandwidth. If I have a higher quality version, I'd like to keep only the larger one.
Firefox 140.0.4
Have you played around with anything like that? Seems like a locally running CLIP model could do the job.
Honestly might do a CLIP powered version myself. I only need image ("similar picture") and language search, doesn't seem that difficult.
That's all.
mcvanhassel•7mo ago
After drowning in 50,000+ unorganized photos across multiple devices and much frustration, I built FlipFocus Photo Organizer to solve my own problem.
What it does: * Smart organization - Sorts by date/device/EXIF automatically * Duplicate detection - Finds duplicates even with different filenames * 100% offline - Your photos never leave your device * Cross-platform - macOS & Windows
Why I built it: A lot of photo organizers either require cloud (privacy concerns) or are manual/tedious. I wanted something that respects privacy while being intelligent enough to handle years of photo chaos.
Tech stack: Built with Electron, Node.js and Angular. Price: €19.99 one-time purchase (no subscriptions)
The privacy-first approach means everything runs locally, no internet required after download. It helped me create oversight of years of digital photos and save me hours of work I otherwise had to spend manually organizing photos.
Would love your feedback, especially from fellow digital hoarders!
smt88•6mo ago
wickedsight•6mo ago
"The app uses advanced hash algorithms to identify duplicate files by analyzing their content, not just filenames."
4gotunameagain•6mo ago
It is technically an advanced hash algorithm which analyses the contents.
edit: oh it is built with electron and node.js, so instead of sha256sum it's probably pulling 15 dependencies to calculate it.
aa-jv•6mo ago
Oh, wait:
>Tech stack: Built with Electron, Node.js and Angular. Price: €19.99 one-time purchase (no subscriptions)
.. never mind. :(
No trial period? Using Node.js to touch all my files? Electron: doesn't scale - I have 500,000 photo's to process - think the DOM can handle that? Javascript for such an app? Bummer.
Well, if there's ever a way to try it out, I'll give it a chance, but .. out of the gate .. there's a lot swinging against it. I'll go back to my own Photo organizer app, meanwhile, written in cross-platform C++ and designed to be multithreaded and high-performance, alas .. but I wish you all the best, anyway.
nikolayasdf123•6mo ago
not sure how much I would pay for it. I would consider this only if it was completely free, open-source, and self-deployed. so would use it only at $0.
delusional•6mo ago
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smt88•6mo ago
I'd never let a junior dev use one of these models, but I've been coding for 30 years and know how to catch mistakes. It saves a huge amount of time.
antisthenes•6mo ago
I've done this multiple times and Claude explicitly provided a config parameter in the script to make it "read only" by default.
Regardless, why wouldn't anyone test it on a small subset of your photos before trying it on a full collection? You would do it with a script you wrote personally and you should do it with an LLM script as well.
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rambambram•6mo ago
I am sure how much you'd pay for it!
Zero. Nada. None. Is what you want to pay for it. That's what you just told us in your last sentence.