I've been meaning to write this down for a while. Last weekend I finally sorted through six years of photos scattered across three external drives, and I did it all with an app called Lap. It's a local-first, open-source photo manager: you browse, search and organize huge libraries completely offline, and nothing ever goes to the cloud. That last part matters to me, because I never felt comfortable uploading family pictures to some random server just to get face recognition. Setup took maybe ten minutes, and indexing 40,000 files was surprisingly quick. I could search by date, camera or location without waiting on a single upload. If you've got an overflowing photo library and care about privacy, give it a look at lapphotos.com. It genuinely changed how I deal with my archive.