Pick of the Week: DropIt – Automating Photo & Video Organization

Two weeks ago, I stumbled upon an interesting open-source Windows application called DropIt. Before diving into why I like it so much, let me first describe the problem I was trying to solve. I organize all my photos and videos manually into folders. Yes, I know there are plenty of archiving tools from Google, Yahoo, or even Apple’s iPhoto and Aperture on macOS. But I don’t want to upload my pictures to the cloud, nor do I want to depend on a single piece of proprietary software to keep track of something as important as my memories. Instead, all my files are…