![]() ![]() Scanning the photos yourself allows you to do the project in stages. That means either scanning your images, paying a service like ScanCafe or Legacybox to scan them for you, or taking photos of your photos. If you’re looking to get started with organizing your family library, particularly older images, remember, before organization comes digitization. So, while we were excited to have two years of family history at our fingertips, we stopped there.īut that was the early 2000’s, and now there’s a host of resources that didn’t exist then, Mylio chief among them. When we decided to digitize old photos of my grandparents, it turned out to be far more time-consuming than any of us expected. If you hadn’t guessed, the story I opened with was my own. Finding the best way to digitize old family photos I means I can also let the less tech-savvy adult members of my family flip through my Mylio library to their heart’s content without the constant worry that they’re going to mess something up. Guest mode allows me to share their history (both recent and further down the line) with them without risking our history’s safety until they’re old enough. The problem is, they are accident-prone little balls of energy who could mess up all my digital organization in a hot second. Then, select the social media app of your choice. Just select the photo you want in your mobile app and tap the Share icon at the bottom of the screen. Mylio makes this type of sharing darn easy. Families who are spread out, in particular, are able to stay close in a way they never could before thanks to Facebook, Instagram, and the rest. While I’m more a fan of experiencing life than documenting it compulsively, there is definite value in sharing photos on social media from time to time. We’ve all heard that phrase, “Pics or it didn’t happen.” That means we finally have a true, shareable family photo library, rather than a collection of camera rolls and folders that we wrestle with about once a year in November, when it’s time to put together our annual family Christmas album to send our respective mothers. We make frequent updates and changes to Mylio on each device, and they sync like butter. My life is on a Macbook, my husband can’t live without his Surface Book 2, and we both use iPhones. And what’s more, your library plays nicely between all those different platforms. Mylio is “device agnostic”, meaning it works with iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows. It also makes it simple to share from a central hub, which means I share photos (and experience them) more. Mylio’s functionality and versatility keep things running and organized, even when life is too crazy for me to take an active hand in my photo organization. So often, the processes we are enthusiastic about in the beginning fall by the wayside over time. The best way to share photos with family is the one you’ll actually use. We’ll talk a lot about digitizing and preserving your older family photos in a bit, but let’s not forget the most important part of having a digital family photo library: sharing and experiencing those photos in a convenient way. Today, I’m showing you how to do that with Mylio. It’s time to upgrade how we preserve, organize, and experience family photos. Though all our stories are just a little bit different, our family photos have something in common: they’re as difficult to manage as they are sentimental. Or maybe it’s a camera roll full of quarantine family photos that will fall victim to the “endless scroll” until the next time you upgrade your smartphone, when they could be lost forever. Maybe it’s a stack of yearbooks from the 90’s. Maybe for your family it’s a shoebox full of Polaroids. And those folders remained largely unopened for many years after. Some of the photos got labelled, but most didn’t. Rejoicing in their success, they put the images in two folders: Germany-1 and Germany-2. One by one, they scanned each slide and saved them on a USB drive with a whopping 256 GB to its name. Their daughter also had daughters, and one day many, many years later, she sat down with them, surrounded by slides from the Germany years none of them had been alive to know. They fell in love, lived in Germany for a while, had a daughter, and loved each other for the rest of their lives. Once upon a sweltering Alabama summer, a young man winked at a young woman in a department store lobby. ![]() How to digitize, organize, and access your family photos Description: It’s time to upgrade how we preserve, organize, and experience our family photo libraries.
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