What's next for PhotoStructure?

The following are some of the features that we’re considering adding to PhotoStructure in the coming months and years.

Note that these are not in priority order, and we’ll try to keep this page updated as changes happen.

Front-end improvements #

  • 🗂️ Support for browsing by filesystem folders (as they appear on disk)

  • 🎰 Support direct navigation to a specific asset in a gallery. This fixes several issues:

    • Scrolling through a large gallery, clicking into an asset, and clicking back would return you back to the same scroll spot
    • Clicking the breadcrumb titles in the asset view jumps to the asset in context

  • 🎥 Enhance support for videos in thumbnails

  • 📂 Support for manually created albums

  • 🗑️ Support for hiding and removing assets, individually and through bulk operations

  • 🐳 Support browsing very large numbers of “child tags” (for, example, PhotoStructure libraries with > 20 years of photos)

  • 🔍 Support for faceted browsing (view all library contents, or view non-hidden assets, or only view ⭐'ed assets)

  • 🔍 Search by keyword, tag, path, or other asset attributes

  • 🍿 Slideshow support (possibly including local smart TVs)

  • 📽️+📷 “Live” photo support (autoplay video, replaced with full-resolution still image)

  • 📚 Support for “stack” management (many shots taken of the same content, with the ability to pick a “cover”, or “best” variant)

Secure sharing #

  • 👨‍👩‍👧 Support sharing via albums and tags

  • 💖 Support user likes and comments

Enhanced curation and browsing #

  • 🏷️ Folder-name based “event” or “album” tagging (YYYY-MM-DD-eventname, YYYY-MM-eventname, YYYY-eventname, and variants).

  • 📅 “On this day” album

  • 🤖 Add ML-powered face-and-thing tagging. As always with PhotoStructure, all computation happens locally on your computer. Your data stays yours.

  • 🌍 Support reverse-geocoding, to automatically tag assets with location names.

  • 🌏 Map-based views of assets and events.

  • 🔍 Albums based on search results

Synchronization management #

  • 📈 View progress of current synchronizations

  • 📂 Add/remove folders and volumes from sync

  • ⏯️ Pause/resume/force sync for a specific volume

  • 🔁 Add “watched” folders that synchronize as soon as files are added

  • ⛔ Retroactive application of NoMedia folders

Import improvements #

  • 🗜️ Archival file imports (import from zips, tarballs, …)

  • 🕷️ Non-local imports (via S3 or other URL-accessible sites)

🙋🏽‍♀️ See something you want? What did we miss? #

Please vote for your favorite feature, or describe something we’re missing via chat or email. We’d love to hear from you.