How to Organize Family Photos Most people's family photos aren't organized. They're just... there. Mixed across phones and cameras and external drives. Some are from 1995, some from last week, no way to tell the difference. Hundreds of nearly-identical shots of the same moment. Photos with the same name taken in different years. Duplicates you've forgotten about, backed up to three different cloud services. It's not an archive. It's a pile. And the reason it's a pile is that the systems people try don't actually match how human memory works.