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organization

  1. live4music

    iPhone Photo Albums Organizing by Date Imported to PC Not Date Taken/Created

    So ever since I got my iPhone 15 Pro, ONLY photos taken by me and my iPhone are organized correctly (once imported to PC and put in a specific folder then put back on my iPhone). Photos and videos sent by people (even with iPhones), and even videos that I shoot, are ordered by the date they were...
  2. purdnost

    How to Filter Unassigned Contacts in the Contacts App?

    In the Contacts app, you can create custom lists to enhance organization. A couple of years ago, I started doing this, but recently, I've added new contacts without assigning them to any lists. Is there a simple way to filter out these unassigned contacts? It feels like there should be an...
  3. Substance21

    Looking for Mac beta testers

    Greetings Mac photographers, I’m looking for a few brave photographers to help beta test a unique Mac photo organization app that helps sort, filter, and keyword photos based on their visual attributes. Beta testers will be given access to private group discussions and will have an opportunity...
  4. J

    Please help with merging the contents of subfolders and deleting the parent folders.

    I've reached out to apple to no avail, so here goes: I have a parent folder "Food". inside the parent folder are three folders Breakfast Lunch Dinner now inside of the three folders are hundreds of folders of recipes. so, breakfast has 200 folders of individual recipes lunch has 500 folders of...
  5. PowerPCFan

    Do you use webloc files?

    Whenever I find a website I want to revisit, I highlight the address bar and drag it to a folder on my desktop. It creates a .webloc file I can double-click to revisit the site. Does anyone else do this? Also how many people use Stacks on their desktop? It's very amazing and helpful for...
  6. JohnEmmett

    Shadowrun

  7. nelson1457

    Desktop organization app

    I have a desire (need?) for a utility app for my Mac. I’d like an ability to click on an icon (or perhaps a menu bar icon) and have my desktop be different for the various tasks I do. I’m writing a book? I click on ‘author’ and up comes Pages (or Word) and Safari for research. I’m playing...
  8. AveryWrubleski

    WEIRD TOPIC - Finder Folder Sorting Issue

    Hey Everyone, I have a bazar question I would like to ask pertaining to folder organization problems, which effects my OCD. For well over a year now, some of my folders appear to be out of order and randomly positioned. This happpens in certain sections of my external hard drives file path...
  9. A

    Looking for simple rapid sorting with preview

    I'm dreaming of an application that does two things: previews files tags files with hotkeys I can't seem to hack anything together that does what I want. Here's the Details. Drag in a folder, and a window with two panes appears. On the left you have all the files, on the right you have a...
  10. Eagle 20

    Need Help to Keep Detailed Logs

    I like to keep detailed logs for various things. For example, recently I've been dealing with a website where PayPal is involved. So I have emails, phone recordings, screenshots etc. At the moment I'm using Notes since I have all Apple products, making it available on all my devices and handy...
  11. 2

    Best practices for a well daily organized workflow in the Apple ecosystem

    Not sure where I can post this, since it applies to iPhone, iPad, Mac's, Apple Watch users. But I am deeply tied into Apple's ecosystem. I own practically almost every device from Apple's router, watch, iPhone, iPad Pro, iPods, Watch, Apple TV, HomePods, etc. With that being said. I am dying to...
  12. C

    Apple TV Media Organization

    In iTunes, selecting "Keep Media folder organized" would reorganize all TV shows based on [Show] -> [Season] -> then store the episodes in there. In the new Apple TV app, they seem to have completely reorganized my library to eliminate [Season] folders, so now it's just [Show] -> episodes. This...
  13. T

    Is there a way to change the key photo for folders in the photo app in iOS 12?

    Is there a way to change the key photo for folders in the photo app in iOS 12?
  14. P

    Photo storage/organization to replace iPhoto

    I've been pulling my hair out for MONTHS trying to solve this conundrum, so any and all advice is SUPER appreciated. I've been using iPhoto, and have multiple libraries (I start a new one every couple of years to keep the size down). I despise the new Photos, but will switch to it if...
  15. jusacruiser

    Looking for "To Do" App Suggestions??

    I am looking for "To Do" app suggestions. Any good suggestions for either iPhone or MacBooks?
  16. A

    Organizing Photos: How to export Metadata to CSV?

    Hi! does anyone have suggestions how I can export all Photos' Metadata into a CSV List? Background: We had a wonderful trip through Africa in a convoy with different people. Now everyone dropped their photos into Dropbox and the imports just surfaced a big chaos: Many did not have GPS...
  17. M

    Desktop loaded in memory? Clean APP

    I just heard that one should keep the desktop uncluttered because Mac OS will take anything on it and put it in RAM. A lot of stuff on the desktop can therefore slow the system by consuming RAM unnecessarily. This was interesting news for me as I am not the tidiest person in the world and have a...
  18. jgelin

    Resolved How do I get this view in songs?

    Hello all, I was reading an article about iTunes and in one of the screenshots the guy has one of the most efficient layouts of the songs view that I have seen. I cannot figure out how to replicate the view on my iTunes however, is there a way for me to get this view or be able to stack the...