I've been meaning to sort out my photo library for ages. Ten years of travel pics, random screenshots, and duplicate downloads all sitting on an external drive, gathering digital dust. Cloud services make me uneasy — I don't love the idea of my entire life being uploaded and scanned somewhere. Someone in a privacy forum mentioned trying a local-first organizer, so I gave lapphotos a shot. It's exactly what I wanted: everything stays on my machine, no cloud uploads, and it still handles a massive library without choking. Offline browsing, searching by date or location, tagging — all local. I spent a whole evening happily re-discovering old trips instead of doing chores. I've put the link here in case anyone else is tired of trading their memories for convenience: lapphotos.com. It's open source too, which settles it for me.