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Tips, Tricks, & Thoughts
Discover practical advice on decluttering, organizing, and enjoying your digital and printed memories.
I share thoughts, stories, and insight on a variety of topics:
Travel Photo Books: Begin at the End
If you plan on making a photo book of your travels, set yourself up for success by thinking about the photo book before you set out for your trip.
Arrange Wander Focus turns 1!
Arrange Wander Focus is 1! I have hit the year mark photo organizing, helping people rediscover their photos and stories - sometimes in anticipation of a special event, sometimes after a difficult loss, sometimes to get things in order so as not to leave a mess for others, and sometimes just ticking an item off of a to do list. Bring on year 2!
Three Tips to Organize Your Phone Photos in 2022
Overwhelmed by your photos? Here are three tips to get you started organizing your photos in 2022.
Three Ways to Share a Family Photo Collection
What is the best way to share your photos? In this post I discuss my favorite three ways to share a photo collection.
Holiday Gift Guide!
Create personalized photo gifts for the people you love this holiday season. Here are my top seven - not quite ten - favorites.
How to save photos from your iPhone texts
Learn how to bulk save and delete photos from you have received via text.
Searching for faces on your iPhone
Take advantage of the iPhone’s built-in facial recognition feature to search your library for specific people. You can even search for multiple people together.
Did you know your camera roll is actually a searchable photo database?
Use the built in search capabilities, keywords, and captions to find any photo at anytime.
Who gets this photo?
How do you split up photos for you children and family? Scan and share them instead. Unlike you, your photos can be in two places at once!
5 tips to stay organized as you head out on vacation
Organize your vacation photos as you go to avoid photo overwhelm when you get home.
Three tips to make an amazing slideshow
Want to make a great slideshow? Here are three tips to help get you there.
A video book makes a fabulous gift for graduation and other special events!
Looking for a great graduation gift? How about a video player filled with videos of your graduate. A perfect gift for your graduate and for a technologically-challenged family member!
Strategies to take control of your screenshots
Screenshots are wonderful for taking a quick “note,” but they become space hogs on your phone very quickly. Here are some strategies to control them.
Let’s talk about backing up your photos
Everyone should backup their photos. Here are several suggestions on how to make sure your photo library is secure.
Apps I love: 1SE
One of my favorite photo apps is 1 Second Everyday. It mashes together 1 second video and photo clips to tell your personal story.
Why I love keywording my photos and why you should too
Keywording your photo library allows you to find any picture within a matter of seconds. It’s what truly makes your library enjoyable.
Put yourself in the picture
An easy way to make sure you come home from vacation with pictures of the whole family. Together.
Capture family stories before they are gone
Preserve the stories that accompany your old family photos before it is too late.
Bring intention to your camera roll and avoid photo library bloat
Too many photos? Next time you take 15 shots of the same thing, immediately pick the best one and discard the rest.
Thoughts on International Women’s Day
I never thought of myself as a trailblazer. But looking back, by successfully navigating through a male-dominated landscape, maybe I was. Maybe all women are.