EXIF is the greatest thing about photos and videos. It makes every photo a tiny portable database of itself. A library of photos is a collection of these tiny d

EXIF is the greatest thing about photos and videos. It makes every photo a tiny portable database of itself. A library of photos is a collection of these tiny databases which share a schema. Doesn’t matter what device takes the photo - and it’s been like this for decades. I wrote a program that’s been organizing my photos based on EXIF for 7+ years [1]. I’ve also blogged about my reasoning (have co-founded 2 photo startups prior) [2, 3, 4, 5]. I’ve since moved off Google Photos to Synology Photos but haven’t written about that yet. Relying on EXIF makes that super easy. 1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie https://github.com/jmathai/elodie 2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-automated-photo-workflow-a2ff95b46f8f https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut... 3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal-exif-based-photo-and-video-assistant-d92868f302ec https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal... 4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-google-photos-and-elodie-afb753b8c724 https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin... 5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-photo-organization-and-archiving-workflow-89cf9ad7bddf https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...