Catalog: A Long-Term System for Organizing Creative Work

A practical guide to organizing, finding, and protecting creative work over time. Catalog brings together workflows for Lightroom, metadata, file structure, backups, and long-term creative archives.

Catalog: A Long-Term System for Organizing Creative Work

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How I organize photos in Lightroom (a simple system that scales)

A simple Lightroom workflow built for long-term scalability. Learn how to organize photos using a single catalog, a Year > Month folder structure, metadata, Smart Collections, and backups that keep your archive searchable, approachable, and future-proof.

Lightroom Classic photo organization system

My Lightroom Folder Structure Is Just Year > Month

A simple Lightroom folder structure for long-term photo organization. I use Year > Month folders, stable camera filenames, and Lightroom metadata to keep the archive readable, searchable, and usable for decades.

Lightroom folder structure organized by Year Month and Photo RAW folders