{"id":3362,"date":"2016-01-11T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2016-01-10T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T01:13:17","slug":"google-photos-makes-me-sweat-less-enjoy-more-old-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/11\/google-photos-makes-me-sweat-less-enjoy-more-old-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos throwbacks make me sweat less, enjoy more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often let the perfect be the enemy of the good, failing to share a lot of good photos because I haven\u2019t gotten enough time to winnow down a set &amp; perfect them Lightroom. (If it weren\u2019t for my wife\u2019s fast, pitiless curation, I\u2019d fail even more.) I don\u2019t expect this to change\u00a0vis-\u00e0-vis sharing as I go: I\u2019m just not willing to dump out everything I shoot, and to do it in the buff.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m finding, though, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/my-favorite-new-google-photos-feature-is-here\/\">my single favorite feature in Google Photos<\/a>\u2014namely, daily throwbacks to memories from the same date\u2014is that I\u2019m not stressing about finding, sharing, and perfecting the \u201cright\u201d photos. Rather, I\u2019ll get a little collage of moments (generally showing our kids as tots), then send <em>the entire photo set from that day<\/em> to my wife, my mom, and occasionally other friends. It\u2019s actually <em>more<\/em> interesting to see all the in-between, throwaway moments than just the super-curated highlights.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does this mean to you?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back up <em>all<\/em> your stuff from all your devices. (It\u2019s free &amp; unlimited!)<\/li>\n<li>Delete <em>only<\/em> the total crap.<\/li>\n<li>Make\u00a0sure you check your <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/assistant\">Assistant<\/a> for these throwback cards.<\/li>\n<li>Share more, worry less, get on with life. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collage.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Collage1.jpg\" alt=\"Collage\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often let the perfect be the enemy of the good, failing to share a lot of good photos because I haven\u2019t gotten enough time to winnow down a set &amp; perfect them Lightroom. (If it weren\u2019t for my wife\u2019s fast, pitiless curation, I\u2019d fail even more.) I don\u2019t expect this to change\u00a0vis-\u00e0-vis sharing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}