Describing all my photos

I take a lot of photos, but I only keep a fraction. Every week, I go through my camera roll and sort my photos into three buckets: keep, delete, or “needs action” (pictures like paperwork or screenshots that I need to do something with, but don’t want to keep indefinitely). This lets me filter out repetitive, blurry, or uninteresting shots. A few years ago, I reviewed my entire 30,000 item library and I deleted almost a fifth of my photos, but I haven’t missed any of those photos. If anything, browsing my photo library has been nicer, because the average quality went up. My photo library only contains my best pictures, not just everything I’ve ever taken. Recently I added a new step: I now write a description for every photo I’m keeping. Typically the description is a sentence or two of context, like what I was doing when I took the photo, or how I felt when I did. A lot of this context isn’t obvious from the image, and over time I forget those details. Sometimes I can piece it…