Table of Contents Introduction Walled garden The solution syncthing picman photoprism honorable mention: Photostructure Introduction Google photos was amazing in the beginning, the photos application did what I wanted and in general it was a good experience I was somewhat of an early adopter, so I had a plethora of photos stored in google photos. I didn’t really have to think about photos, it was just handled for me.

github https://github.com/sigmonsays/picman I wrote a basic tool to replace my krufty bash scripts that imports my photos from various locations into their final resting place. The tool operates in steps where each step is kind of idempotent. The set of all steps is called a workflow and operates on a single file. see code. Each step operates on the same workflow object, which primarily has a state object State Object code