The big Mylio Photos update is almost here. And when we say BIG, we mean it. Enjoy better ways to collaborate with your family and team members, more straightforward navigation based on your objectives, quick export to VIEWBUG to get rewarded for your photography, better control of your storage, and a lot more. Watch the highlights from our reveal event below.
The all-new Mylio Photos version 24.3 will be released very soon 🔥
In the digital age, preserving precious memories captured in vintage photographs has become more accessible. Thanks to services like ScanMyPhotos, the first step of digitizing and safeguarding your analog treasures is now a breeze.
In a very emotional USA Today column, tech expert Jennifer Jolly wrote on the urgency to get your history scanned: “In a world filled with tech companies promising to change our lives in myriad ways sure to “surprise and delight,” [ScanMyPhotos] provided the single most meaningful service I’ve experienced to date.”
But what happens after your photos, slides, and film negatives are transformed into museum-quality digital masterpieces? Of course, you organize, protect, and privately manage them with Mylio Photos.
David Vaskevitch, founder and CEO of Mylio, emphasizes the importance of organized memories: “When your photos and videos are well organized, you no longer worry about losing track of your important memories. This reduces the stress that so often comes with disorganization.”
ScanMyPhotos provides the essential first step in digitizing and preserving your vintage photos, while Mylio Photos offers the perfect solution for organizing and protecting your digital archives.
We are thrilled to unveil an exciting new partnership between Mylio and ScanMyPhotos, two industry leaders dedicated to preserving and organizing your most cherished photo memories.
Combining ScanMyPhotos’ expertise in digitization services with Mylio’s cutting-edge photo management technology, we aim to streamline the process of preserving and organizing your memories like never before.
Through this strategic alliance, customers of ScanMyPhotos will now have exclusive access to Mylio’s suite of powerful tools and services for organizing, searching, and sharing their digitized images. Mylio users can save up to 50% on their orders with ScanMyPhotos: pick the photos and videos you want to digitize, place your order, and enter the coupon code “Mylio” at the checkout to see your discount.
“We are excited to join forces with Mylio to provide our customers with best-in-class photo management solutions,” says Mitch Goldstone, CEO of ScanMyPhotos. “Together, we can empower individuals to digitize and organize their memories with unparalleled ease and efficiency.”
Stay tuned for more updates about Mylio’s partnership with ScanMyPhotos.
We’re excited to announce a significant update to Mylio Photos, now available. This update adds several new benefits and features. Note: It is a good idea to update all devices at the same time.
You can now add meaningful information to People View inside Mylio Photos. This includes attaching important dates, relationships, and contact details. This new feature debuts in Mylio Photos v24.1 and will be receiving several additional updates over upcoming releases through this year.
The details are kept 100% private to your account and are not shared when posting photos except in specific situations like publishing to FamilySearch.org. The Mylio company will not view or use this data. Once added, this information can drive interactive options like photo sharing and new search tools. Some of these features are included with this release, with more to come.
While the new Connections tools information is useful, retyping it into Mylio Photos may be a pain. Chances are you already have a lot of this information on your devices today.
Click Choose Contact to open the Address Book on your device. This feature currently works with iOS, Android, and macOS. Windows support is currently not available due to limitations imposed by Microsoft Outlook. You can link to an existing card in your address book to import relevant details to Mylio Photos. This is an import and not a sync. You can import multiple times as needed to add new data in the future.
Click Import Contact Card to import an industry-standard VCARD. This is typically stored as a .vcf file and can be exported from most address books and email programs, including Outlook and Gmail.
You can log into a FamilySearch.org account and associate people with your family tree with one click. This will also add connections to other family members and start to populate the relationships automatically as you connect multiple family members. This connection makes sharing memories with FamilySearch.org easier and is essential to protecting your family heritage.
Your interactive family tree can only be viewed by family members. Pictures of those living are automatically private, and deceased individuals can be discovered by others doing family tree research. Your photos are preserved for future generations with full metadata for free. Create a free FamilySearch.org account and a living history for your relatives and future generations.
One of the most useful ways to use Mylio Photos is to explore your photos, videos, and documents. Mylio Photos is designed to work the way a human brain does, meaning that one memory triggers another, and we find things based on how important details relate to each other. These buttons work great in conjunction when casually browsing or using Dynamic Search.
You’ll find two new QuickAction buttons, and one expanded QuickAction button when viewing a single image.
Show in Folder. With one click, pivot to the Folder that contains all the photos related to this one.
Show in LifeCalendar. Click to see all other photos captured on the same day. You can use the navigation bar to step backward to the month or year view.
PhotoExplorer. Click to see more details about a photo. Existing options include the ability to reveal the image on a map or to do a web search on the GPS coordinates. New options related to contacts are also described in the next section.
Once you connect contact information to people in your library, they can be interacted with from PhotoExplorer.
Only some of the actions are available, but we’ll be rolling out all these choices shortly. Please note that your device or platform may limit messaging options, and any data consumed is tied to your normal plan.
Person – Click their icon to see all photos of a person
Email – Click to send the photo to the person via email
Message – Click to send the photo to a person via text message
Call – Click to start a phone call (coming soon to iOS and Android)
Video Call – Click to start a video call (coming soon to iOS and Android)
Do you need to share a group of photos quickly? The Shareable Link option is a mobile-friendly way to do this (it also works on desktops).
We have expanded our support for the Frame.io platform from Adobe. Creative professionals use this tool to exchange files and comment on photos and videos. If you use frame.io, try the frame.io folder importer in the Add Media menu.
You’ll find a new button to add a Protection Vault in the Devices panel. This is a more guided way and will help you determine the size of drive you need and how to set it up. Adding at least two vaults can protect your library against data corruption, device failure, theft, or loss. You’ll need a Mylio Photos+ subscription or trial to set up and use a vault.
You can now use pictures or logos as a watermark. This is a great way to brand your images, add a stylized signature, or add additional protection. If you need transparency, use a PNG file with embedded transparency. We suggest you add a folder to Mylio Photos to store any watermarks you want to use. Be sure to use the Tap to Sync button on the folder and Store Original Files locally to have the full quality watermark.
Thank you for the feedback in our community and forum. We also appreciate those of you who take the time to contact support. We’ve addressed the following areas of performance for a better experience.
We are working hard on several more improvements to Mylio Photos. We will soon ship several performance improvements and a small release with new features.
At Mylio, we truly appreciate you trusting us to be crucial to managing your memories. We work every day to make this application better for you. Thanks for trusting Mylio Photos with your precious photos and memories.
With the holiday season in full swing, our cherished moments will be captured through various lenses. Sharing these memories can bring joy, yet it requires a mindful approach. Here are some tips to help you navigate the nuances of holiday photo sharing.
Educate family members, particularly children, about the importance of digital privacy. Discuss the implications of sharing photos online and the value of being selective.
Before sharing any photo, ensure you have explicit permission from everyone featured. This can be a group conversation in larger gatherings, setting the tone for privacy. Show respect for others’ children. Always ask permission before posting photos of your friend’s son or daughter. It’s not just courteous but also a matter of care. If someone asks you to take down a photo, do so promptly.
Be mindful of sharing photos with location information. These tags can unintentionally expose your home’s location or other sensitive data. Mylio Photos SafeShare feature will let you share images and control what data “goes out.”
Social media privacy settings are crucial tools. Use them to control who sees your photos, create private groups, or share directly with family. For friends and family circles (and even for random gatherings), Mylio Photos’ Shared Albums offer a hassle-free space to showcase your images.
Review photos for any sensitive or personal information in the background. Remember, modern tech will easily read even the most minor text on your photo. What if you have a credit card lying around? Mylio Photos interface allows for easy scanning of images before sharing, ensuring you only share what you intend to.
Don’t rely solely on social media for storing your holiday photos. Use external hard drives and cloud storage for backups. Set device sync policies with Mylio Photos+, and media from all your devices will be protected automatically.
Keep an eye on the comments section of your posts. Address any inappropriate comments promptly to foster a positive sharing environment. Be thoughtful and selective about what and how much you share. This practice protects privacy and makes each shared photo more memorable.
Embracing these practices allows you to share your holiday moments with joy and responsibility. With tools like Mylio Photos, you can ensure these memories are cherished and protected, just as they deserve.
Our cameras click away as we gather, creating those heartwarming moments and capturing the love. But let’s take a moment to unwrap some common myths about sharing these family photos. The Mylio Team is here to add more sparkle and clarity so you can share with confidence and care!
Let’s start with safety. Sharing a photo with a geotag of your parent’s house might seem harmless, but it’s like leaving breadcrumbs to your location. Imagine this: You post a cute pic with a geotag from Grandma’s, but oops! Now everyone knows the family’s not home. Let’s keep our safe havens, well, safe!
Here’s where we tread softly. Posting a photo of your niece’s birthday bash? Get a nod from her parents first. It’s like asking permission before borrowing someone’s precious jewels – it’s respectful and just plain right.
Think of your private family group as a garden. You plant a photo there, but what if a friend of a friend, like a bee, buzzes it to a public space? Suddenly, your intimate family moment is out there for all to see. Privacy settings help, but they’re not a magic shield.
Consent is critical! Just because Cousin Jane doesn’t mind sharing her dance moves doesn’t mean Aunt Clara feels the same about her turkey-carving mishap. It’s like giving everyone a voice in a family vote – make sure each face in that photo says ‘yes’ before you post.
The popular Cloud albums aren’t resistant to the hiccups of the tech world. Platforms can change, and accounts can be hacked. It’s like keeping all your eggs in one basket – not the wisest choice. Always have a backup plan with a good digital vault or two. When sharing your memories online with your loved ones, we recommend doing so with Shared Albums in Mylio Photos+. This way only the people with the link will access your photos; your media will stay accessible as long as you decide and no sensitive data will be shared.
Those little tags and captions are more telling than you think. Mentioning your kiddo’s school in a caption might seem cute, but it’s oversharing. It’s like accidentally dropping your house keys in a public place – someone might pick them up and know too much.
We might overlook a photo of Uncle Bob blinking or little Lily mid-tantrum in a rush to share. It’s like sending a letter without proofreading – constantly review before you seal and send!
Lastly, let’s talk about filters. Transforming your teen’s casual snap into a flawless portrait might set an unrealistic beauty standard. It’s like painting over a masterpiece – the original is beautiful. Consider using a photo editor that brings realistic results and is just meant to reveal the hidden beauty of your pictures instead of “overcooking” them.
This one’s a modern twist. In a world where technology is like a wizard, crafting images that look oh-so-real, it’s crucial to remember – not everything in a photo might be as it appears. We’re talking about deepfakes and AI-generated images. Imagine this: You stumble upon a photo of a happy family buying a Christmas Tree, but wait – aren’t they too perfect in a photo? It could be a digitally altered image conjured up by clever software, like the one below.
And there you have it – a bit more insight into these myths. Remember, sharing family photos is about spreading joy, not worry. Check out the tips on mindful sharing in another post. Until then, stay informed, stay kind, and keep those memories shining bright – safely!
Hugs and Sparkles, The Mylio Team 🌹✨
In today’s world, there’s something special about looking through an old photo album. But to make sure these memories last for years to come, turning them into digital files is a smart move. You need to scan your old photos – there’s no doubt about it.
We at Mylio understand this and offer a free scanning course with helpful tips to get you started. It’s perfect for learning the ins and outs of converting your printed memories into digital keepsakes. Before you start digitizing your cherished memories, follow these recommended steps for a smooth and rewarding experience.
Jump into your stash of photographs and start choosing the ones to scan. Look out for duplicates and consider which ones tug at your heartstrings the most. A fun idea: ask family or friends to help! They can help you pick and tell the stories behind the pictures, which you’ll want to remember when you look at your digital versions.
Time can be harsh on old photos. Before scanning, gently dust them off with a soft cloth, and if they have tears or faded colors, you should fix these issues. This step makes sure your digital images will look their best.
If you’re scanning at home, a good scanner is critical. You should get one that scans at 600 dots per inch (dpi) for photos. For things like slides or negatives, aim for a scanner that can do 3000 dpi. Features that fix color and remove dust can breathe new life into old photographs.
For those scanning at home, remember these pointers:
1. Scan in color to catch all the detail, even for black-and-white images.
2. Save in TIFF for the highest quality or JPEG if you need to share them easily.
3. Use the highest resolution for scanning to capture all the details.
If you have a mountain of photos, if they’re very fragile, or if you want the highest quality, you should look into professional scanning services. They have advanced equipment and can improve your photos, too. If you decide to look for professional help, start here.
Once you’ve scanned your pictures, keeping them organized is essential. Mylio Photos is perfect for this. It syncs your photos across your devices, uses face recognition to help sort them, and makes it easy to find anything in a few clicks. Its calendar feature lets you reminisce about past events, and Shared Albums make it easy to let your loved ones relive those events together. Here’s how Mylio Photos will help you preserve your family legacy.
Keep your digital photo files safe by storing them in different places, like an external drive and a cloud service. Regularly check them to make sure they’re still good. It’s also nice to print out the ones you love because nothing beats holding a photo in your hands.
After your photos are digitized and organized, Mylio’s Shared Albums feature is a great way to share them with people you care about. It’s an easy way to spread the joy of your memories with friends and family.
When working on your family tree, consider building one on FamilySearch.org and share your most memorable family photos there. Family Search is one of the world’s most prominent family history platforms, with billions of records and excellent family history tools. Mylio Photos makes it simple to upload your photos right to FamilySearch, keeping all the essential information and stories attached to them. It’s a powerful way to connect with your family history.
With these easy steps and Mylio Photos as your memory-keeping partner, you can preserve your photo memories for generations. Have fun scanning and sharing the stories that make your family unique!
In today’s digital age, capturing countless moments has become second nature, yet the bonds between generations often remain fragile.
In an interview with Website Planet, David Vaskevitch shared how Mylio was born from a desire to revolutionize the way we remember. It provides a powerful yet user-friendly platform for organizing, curating, and preserving precious photos, videos, and documents. By allowing users to keep their photos on any device rather than solely in the cloud, Mylio ensures privacy and accessibility without sacrificing security.
This unique approach empowers users to safeguard their memories, making them available across all devices and operating systems, ensuring that these cherished moments are always at their fingertips.
Even though we capture countless moments in today’s digital age, the connections between generations are often weak, and future generations may not remember their grandparents. Mylio’s mission is to change the way the world remembers. We wanted to offer memory-keepers a robust yet easy-to-use platform that helps organize, curate, and preserve important photos, videos, and documents. Mylio allows users to keep their photos wherever they want, not just in the cloud.
This ensures privacy, as users know their photos are not being used for data mining and are not locked away in a distant cloud. Mylio allows memory access on any device and operating system, ensuring these precious moments are always available.
Mylio combines all your memories by consolidating photos, videos, and documents scattered across multiple devices into a single library. It syncs your memories across all your devices, ensuring you can access them wherever you are. With powerful organizational tools like face recognition, geotagging, and the unique Life Calendar, Mylio easily organizes and finds your memories quickly and easily.
Mylio stands out with its comprehensive syncing capabilities, allowing users to access their photo library across multiple devices without relying on cloud storage. The Life Calendar provides a unique way to organize and view your memories by mapping them across your life and the lifetime of your ancestors and future generations.
Mylio’s advanced face recognition (as well as all AI features) works entirely on your devices, ensuring privacy while helping you tag and organize photos efficiently. Mylio’s smart compression algorithm also enables users to store many photos on their devices without compromising quality or taking up excessive space.
Mylio ensures the privacy and security of users’ photos by allowing them to store their memories on their own devices rather than relying solely on cloud storage. You can designate one or more computers or disks as “vaults” to store original copies of your photos, and Mylio automatically keeps these vaults in sync.
If you prefer cloud storage, Mylio offers options to store photos in Amazon or Google cloud services, with the additional choice of encrypting photos to ensure the cloud provider cannot access them. This flexibility gives you control over how and where your photos are stored.
Thousands of success stories from people and businesses have benefited from using Mylio. Users have reunited with classmates at sports games decades after graduation and had photos of the graduation readily available on their smartphones. Small businesses manage thousands of images privately without overpaying for cloud storage.
Medical and security firms use Mylio as a private media hub for their photos. Families collaborate on building their family archives with Mylio, seamlessly using Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS devices to access and contribute to their family library.
We understand that even an average family has over 20,000 photos, and organizing them can feel overwhelming. Our future developments aim to simplify this process even more by providing more options for sharing and enjoying photos and better managing business, personal, family, and extended family photos.
We’re enhancing ways to curate and organize old memories, including analog photos and videos, and improving personalization with enhanced face tagging. Integration with like-minded companies will allow you to print photos, share them with FamilySearch.org to preserve memories, and even get rewarded for your photography. Our recent update features integration with VIEWBUG, one of the world’s biggest platforms for photo contests, offering you even more opportunities.
As Friday draws close and the clock hits 5 PM, I find myself swamped in a maze of files, racing to finish a significant client project. This project isn’t just about creating logos or layouts; it’s about capturing the essence of a local business in digital art. Yet, as I scramble, I realize the need to organize my digital life and clean up the mess that’s become a persistent issue in my professional and personal life.
Firstly, I need patterns, photos, and graphics for print materials. I also have a lot of logo files to sort out. In the middle of this digital chaos, I discovered a file from another client – a quote I forgot. I’ve missed vital icons and still can’t find the patterns I downloaded.
For people like me who work with different people on various projects, messy and numerous files are a given. Depending on my work, I use my laptop, desktop, tablet-laptop hybrid, Android phone, or Android tablet. I’m rocking a Dropbox, a OneDrive, a Google Drive, various external drives, memory cards, and other devices.
Every week is an onslaught of emails with attachments to version control. Photos are coming in off my phone and my DSLR camera. I’m juggling graphics and design elements. Documents abound, from my forever-in-progress house-build schematics to drafted social posts.
Managing endless files is stressful. Time’s running out, and I’m searching everywhere, multitasking quickly. This digital turmoil increases my anxiety, especially with the ticking clock. Whether digital or physical, clutter stops us in our tracks to decide, over and over, “Do I need to deal with that?”
A standard after-school afternoon goes like this in the home I share with my husband and two sons. I’ll get started on dinner now, I think to myself. I head for the freezer to pull out something to defrost. Oh, the school bags are still on the floor. I’ll empty the lunchboxes and get those rinsed.
I grab the bags and pop to the sink. Empty the leftovers and rinse the lunchboxes. Duck into the laundry to hang the bags up for tomorrow. Oh, the washer’s finished. I’ll just put the next load on quickly. Load the dirty clothes and chuck clean ones in the dryer. Hmm, the dryer lint thing is full. Empty it. Oh, the bin’s packed.
Digital files are the same. When working on a task, it’s easy to get pulled aside by other things we see. As you try to find a photo to print for Christmas, you get sidetracked wading through the clutter: The 20 photos you take to get a good one of your kids smiling. Are you trying to find the phone bill so you can pay it? Do you end up in a folder of pricing quotes for that house you’re working on, trying to remember whether you’ve emailed the builder?
Nowadays, many of us struggle to organize our digital lives. Handling multiple projects, switching between devices, and using various cloud storage options has become the norm. We receive emails with attachments daily, and our phones and cameras add to our vast photo collections. Sharing files has become a real challenge. The emotional toll is equally taxing.
It’s Monday morning. I need to finish a client’s website, respond to three quotes from plumbers for our building project, and, ideally, bang out a few pages of my novel. Into my inbox, I go, ready to find those quotes and make a decision. Seventy-three emails later, I’m wondering what happened to the last hour and still searching for the third quote. I don’t have time to do this now – I’ll do it tomorrow. (And that is why my house still isn’t built.)
Messy files cause procrastination. You know that getting everything sorted will be time-consuming. It feels overwhelming even to consider approaching such a task. As a result, we avoid essential tasks, which exacerbates the problem. Clutter blocks the mental space we need to be creative, brainstorm, and problem-solve. When challenged, it’s hard to find space to make something new.
Messy files lead to delays and a loss of focus. Thinking about cleaning up feels daunting. Digital file organization sounds more complicated than building a rocket to fly to Mars.
We usually delay essential tasks, making things worse. Clutter isn’t just physical; it’s in our minds, too. When our thoughts get jumbled, creativity takes a hit. Picture my work evening: I start photo editing, but suddenly, unrelated family photos pop up. Such distractions disrupt my flow and heighten the sense of being overwhelmed.
I primarily spend my working day building websites for creative people. I also write. Plus, I mix in photography and design work. I started my professional career as a teacher of physics and math. I’m now a mom, too. Across all of that, I have authored a book (and written most of another).
The way that my professional and personal life has evolved over the years shows up in my files. In an ideal world, I’d reorient my files to how I work. But I’m generally not able to finish one job before starting the next. My work is self-driven and evolving, one opportunity leading to the next.
With digital files coming at us from everything we’ve got going on, our laptops, phones, tablets, and hard drives reflect what’s inside our minds. Mental clutter is no less stressful than physical clutter, affecting more than our brains. Living with clutter causes the stress hormone cortisol to be released, especially for women (bad news for me).
The anxiety is partly due to uncertainty about the effort needed to eliminate clutter. We feel guilty and embarrassed: “I should be able to manage this” and “I should have all this organized.” The anxiety only compounds when it gets so bad that we miss deadlines or flake out on our commitments.
As the clutter grows and deadlines approach, stress builds. So, how do we clean up our digital mess and find peace?
Mylio Photos can help organize your digital life. To successfully solve a clutter problem, start with quick, manageable chunks. Taking one part of the problem and working to fix it gives you a sense of accomplishment: I can do this.
Mylio Photos is a big help for organizing your scattered photos, videos, and documents. It’s free to download for all major platforms, and the app lets you bring unlimited media from your device, hard drives, cameras, and scanners. Its powerful Photo DeClutter tool is a fun way to start your journey to clean up messy files.
Photo DeClutter finds similar photos in your collection and brings them together for you to review and remove the ones you don’t need. Those burst shots of your kids to get one of them smiling all together? Photo DeClutter finds them and cuts through the mental noise of deciding which one to keep.
I use Mylio Photos+, the optional premium plan with many great features, including the best duplicate-removing tool I’ve ever used. This tool searches everything on all your devices and tells you when you have duplicates. For instance, email attachments you’ve downloaded a dozen times and photos copied from your camera and then again by accident.
My advice: start with one folder, then one hard drive. Add one device and then add more to complete your universal library. You remove the overwhelm and the ensuing procrastination by chunking the task into pieces.
Starting with digital file organization might seem tough, but Mylio Photos offers handy tools. Features like Map, People, and LifeCalendar make it user-friendly. Cleaning up years of messy files might feel like an endless task. In reality, you can bring automatic order to your files relatively quickly. Mylio Photos shines in battling digital clutter because of its automated tools and robust manual organization capacity when needed.
Mylio Photos automatically organizes your files – regardless of where they are on disk – into logical, human-centered views. It helps you find your files in the same way that our minds remember.
From “I need that photo from winter three years ago” to “Where did I save the photos from our Hawaii trip?” the built-in views in Mylio Photos get you to where you need to go. Map, People, and LifeCalendar bring a new way to browse your files: Working with how we think about images helps us get to what we need faster.
Often, we keep unneeded files “just in case,” making our digital spaces messier. But with Mylio Photos+, the Vault devices ensure your files’ safety, letting you tidy up without worries. Trusting Mylio Photos+ with backups ensures your essential files remain protected.
Protecting our important files is part of dealing with a messy file system. I have a bank of historical family photos dating back over one hundred years. I must store multiple copies of these precious photos to protect against drive failure and data loss.
Storing multiple similar files makes cleaning up duplicates nerve-wracking. It’s time-consuming and unreliable to manually check that I have these photos stored elsewhere as a backup before I delete anything. Mylio Photos+ solves this with Vault devices connected to your Library and Photo DeDupe.
A Vault device is simply a computer, external hard drive or SSD (solid-state drive), NAS (network attached storage), or cloud service like OneDrive, Google Photos, or an S3-compatible private cloud that has been added to your Mylio Library and has enough room to store all your media. I use a 12 TB external drive as my Vault drive. It holds a backup of my entire media collection.
With a Vault in place, I can run DeDupe in Mylio Photos+ and be confident that the duplicates the tool finds are indeed unnecessary copies. I already have a backup copy in my Vault, so I can safely delete duplicates scattered across my computer and other devices. Moreover, Photo DeDupe can merge metadata from duplicate copies, so any work I have done with one file will be copied and safely recorded.
Having a Mylio Photos+ plan and backup system alleviates the stress of being unsure if a duplicate copy is safe to delete. We know the duplicate can go because the original, and all the work we’ve done to it, is protected.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Each of those bites takes you one step closer to cleaning up messy files, a calm workspace, and the clarity to approach each task with focus.
You can also set time aside to tidy up at the end of your work day. Have you downloaded another two or three copies of that critical photo from your email? Run Photo DeDupe to clean up. Have you put that stock pattern where it belongs? Drop it into your Mylio Inbox so it’s ready to go for next time.
Regularly taking steps to sort out clutter and prevent it from building up will cause lasting change. This is why I’ve embarked on a journey to transform and organize my digital life. Are you on board?
Story by Jemma Pollari. For more, visit https://jemmapollari.com.
Clearing spaces and organizing are high on many to-do lists. Cleaning out closets and garages may be top of mind, but don’t forget about digital clutter. We are creating more digital files than ever, including precious memories in photos, documents, and videos. But do we organize our digital lives? Are the most important files backed up and protected? Can you find and access them at all times? Do you even know where to look for that specific photo or contract?
Most people have their digital memories scattered across devices: phones, computers, cloud services, old hard drives, and more. Wouldn’t it feel good to have all those files backed up and organized in one place?
The first step in managing your digital memories is to get everything in one place. Most people think it’s not very easy. But it is more straightforward than it sounds.
Start by collecting all the devices where you’ve stored photos and other digital media (smartphones, computers, external drives, thumb drives, memory cards, etc.). Next, list all the digital services where you’ve stored and shared photos. (Apple Photos, Google Photos, Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, etc.)
Start importing all the media into a central storage location. An external drive with a lot of space or a desktop computer with a large hard drive is ideal. Software like Mylio Photos can simplify this process.
Now that you’ve consolidated your entire media library in a single location (here are a few recommendations), it is time to create a backup copy. Remember, all hard drives eventually die; it is just a matter of when. (Learn more in this article.)
The universal standard of 3-2-1 Backup tells us we should have three copies of our data. That’s three copies stored on at least two different drives or services, with one copy stored off-site. This method ensures your family archive is safe and protected, even in a worst-case scenario.
Mylio Photos is installed on your laptop computer to manage your media library. You’ve connected an external drive that stores your primary archive to that computer. You connect a second external drive to your laptop that Mylio Photos+ automatically syncs to create a backup of your library. When creating a single archive, don’t forget about your old memories.
With Mylio Photos+, you can collect, sync, protect, and manage unlimited photos, videos, and documents across unlimited devices. For just $9.99 a month, this may be one of the smartest investments to achieve a clutter-free and organized digital life.
And there’s more: in the new Mylio Photos version 24, Mylio Photos+ users can back up and protect their files even faster with Mylio Drive. Click here to learn more about it.
You’ve added an optional cloud service (such as Google Drive) to your Mylio Photos+ account that automatically syncs to create an offsite backup of your family archive to the Cloud. A 3-2-1 backup setup provides maximum protection if a hard drive fails, is stolen, or something catastrophic happens to your home or office where the original archive is stored.
Mylio Photos+ enables you to automate a 3-2-1 backup routine easily. Once set up, it runs in the background, keeping your precious memories backed up and protected.
Now that you’ve brought your photo sources together, it’s time to start the organization process. The excellent news is that Mylio Photos has already done some work for you. Quickly and easily browse your entire media library by date in the LifeCalendar view or by place in the Map view, even if you’ve stored your media among multiple devices.
For some people, the automatic organization tools in Mylio Photos are just what’s wanted and needed. However, you might realize that your consolidated library has duplicates and other clutter holding you back from thoroughly enjoying your photographic memories. Mylio Photos has several tools to help you tame your digital chaos.
In today’s diverse tech ecosystem, individuals often juggle Windows, Android, and iOS devices, leading to a syncing nightmare. Transferring and organizing media across this OS mosaic can be plagued with compatibility issues, file duplication, or even data loss.
That’s where Mylio Photos+ shines as a beacon of simplicity. Regardless of your device’s operating system, Mylio Photos+ seamlessly syncs your media, ensuring your cherished memories are consistently organized, accessible, and protected. It’s not just software; it’s a universal digital life organizer that harmonizes the chaos of cross-platform media management. No other software will give you this level of security and flexibility.
You will likely have a few duplicate photos as you bring your media into a single library. The Photo DeDupe tool helps you find and remove exact duplicates from your photo library as soon as you start to import. This time-saving tool is available to Mylio Photos+ subscribers and users currently on our free 30-day trial. Click here to learn more about Photo DeDedupe. Now that you’ve removed the exact duplicates, you can focus on eliminating clutter and finding your favorite and best photos.
Once you’ve removed duplicates, you can focus on cleaning up similar photos. With modern phones and cameras, capturing images in burst mode is straightforward. These sets of near-duplicate photos tend to become unnecessary clutter.
After a quick scan, the Photo DeClutter tool identifies photos taken on the same device within a short period (that you can customize). You can quickly select the best and delete (or hide) the rest from your library. Click here to learn more about Photo DeClutter. Narrowing down your “keepers” to the best of the bunch saves hard drive space and makes your library more fun to browse and more accessible to search.
Culling in photography is the process of choosing your best images. Mylio Photos’ QuickReview mode simplifies finding your best photos and lets you hide (or delete) the ones that aren’t. When working in QuickReview mode, there are other distracting options so you can focus on reviewing your photos.
Designed for mobile devices, the tool lets you swipe left or right to keep or mark images for deletion, making the process addictively fun. At the same time, you can easily add Flags and Star Ratings to an image and then Auto-Advance to the next photo. You can also use the tool on a computer with keyboard shortcuts, a mouse, or a computer trackpad. Click to learn more about QuickReview.
New AI-driven tools in Mylio Photos make it easy to filter for and quickly find images based on specific parameters. Using computer vision to scan your pictures on your local device (no Cloud required), SmartTags can identify more than 1,000 activities (from scuba diving to weddings), objects (from balloons to street signs), and visual properties (from blurry to underexposed).
You can use QuickFilters to search for photos (in a folder or your whole library) that are blurry, underexposed, or overexposed, or show people with eyes closed to get results of images quickly that you may want to improve or delete.
Another neat trick helps you quickly delete screenshots you no longer need. Use the “By File Extension” QuickFilter to find all your .png files, then delete any unwanted screenshots. Click here to learn more about QuickFilters.
Managing vast photo libraries across multiple devices is often synonymous with the dreaded “Storage Almost Full” notification. By creating optimized images, Mylio Photos+ solves this problem for you. Optimized images in Mylio Photos+ are more space-efficient versions of your original photos. With Mylio Photos+, you get the best of both worlds. These images retain the original’s richness, detail, and editing features, ensuring no compromises in quality.
What’s even more impressive? These optimized images typically consume just 5%-15% of the original raw file’s space. So, whether you’re thinking of regular prints, sharing memories on social media, or browsing your collection, Mylio’s got you covered. With such efficient space utilization, gone are the days of constantly juggling and deleting files. With Mylio Photos+, you can carry your vast photo libraries in your pocket without the perennial storage anxieties.
In essence, while your original shots remain unaltered on the initial device and any protection vaults, Mylio ensures that you always have access to your memories in a space-efficient manner. It’s not just about storage but intelligent, efficient, and seamless photo management.
Organizing your digital life is more than just a one-and-done event. As we capture new memories, it’s helpful to remember that managing our digital lives and maintaining an organized digital archive is ongoing.
The first step is ensuring Mylio Photos receives new media from your phone, camera, and other sources. If you take photos mostly with your smartphone, install Mylio Photos so your camera roll photos automatically get added when the app is open on the home screen. Setting up automatic importing and doing manual imports when needed ensures your most recent pictures are always backed up and protected.
To keep your photo library in good shape, schedule an hour or so each month to audit your images. Check for new clutter and get rid of things you don’t need. That way, once you’ve done your initial organizing push, you never have to tackle a significant digital decluttering project again.
We’ve all faced this: frantically searching the computer for that perfect family photo for the holiday season. Did you save it on your phone? Or perhaps your tablet? And why are there so many selfies blocking the way?
In today’s digital-centric world, the seemingly simple task of managing digital files has morphed into a complex puzzle. From the sprawling galleries of photographs taken on a whim to crucial documents saved in obscure folders, the digital realm can quickly become a chaotic web. While technology promises convenience, the sheer volume of files we deal with daily can lead to missteps and mishaps.
The challenge of managing digital files – from photos to documents – is real and growing. Whether you’re a professional handling photos for work or a parent sorting through family memories (or both!), it’s shockingly easy to drown in a sea of digital clutter.
But, breathe. Regaining your digital serenity is achievable. Here are five pitfalls we stumble into when trying to manage digital files and how to sidestep them.
The tricky part? Keeping tabs on everything. Often, I’ll launch a project, and its direction shifts several times. My filing system reflects this chaos, making things hard to locate. Old folder systems are limiting. But what if you could look for files based on when or where they were created? Enter Mylio Photos+. This software reinvents how to search and manage digital files, offering several intuitive ways beyond the usual folder dive.
Duplicate files are silent space hogs. They clutter space from re-downloading email attachments because you can’t remember their original location to duplicating photos across multiple devices. Thankfully, Mylio Photos+’s DeDupe tool sweeps through all your devices to spot and eliminate these duplicates.
Camera phones are a blessing, but they can be indiscriminate. Multiple shots are taken to get the ‘perfect’ one, leading to an overflow of nearly identical photos. Mylio Photos introduces a solution with its Photo DeClutter tool. It helps you swiftly choose the best shot and discard the redundant ones, streamlining how you manage digital files.
Backups are vital. If disaster strikes – from hardware failures to accidental drops in a lake – backups are your safety net. While manual backups are tedious, cloud drives can be pricey, especially for large libraries. Mylio Photos+ bridges this gap. It lets you employ your devices as secure backup options, synchronizing in real time.
What’s the point in capturing memories if they’re lost in the digital abyss? With Mylio Photos, reliving those cherished moments becomes a joyful journey, not a chore. From exploring past trips using the Map view to reminiscing about significant events, it’s all at your fingertips. And with the new Mylio Photos 24, sharing your memories with your loved ones is secure and enjoyable.
In conclusion, managing digital files doesn’t have to be a Herculean task. You can reclaim control over your digital domain with the right tools and awareness of common pitfalls. Mylio Photos+ could be your ticket to a clutter-free, well-organized digital life and long-lasting digital memories!
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