There are continuous discussion on what’s the best way to organize your photo collections. It’s fair to say that none of them stands out as the predominant winner. My way (and of course Les Pas is implemented exactly as this is) looks like the following:

Shoot as much as I can with my phone and digital camera.

After the trip or event or simply a period of time like a month or so, revisit the photos, choose the best of them, then edit and put them into a new album in Les Pas. Then publish (means share in Les Pas’s term) the album to others if I think they care.

For those photos deem to be mediocre, they stay in the camera roll (which is nicely backup on the server) or in their respective folder organized in date. And eventually I will move them to an external hard drive and they stay offline. I have very bad experience in the past of hard drive broke down after short period of time because they are kept spinning all days. I currently have only 5000 photos in 30 albums online, and they come out of those tens of thousands which are now sleeping in the offline drive.

I also have albums which won’t end in a specific day, like the one documenting the growth of my kids, and the one collecting recipes footage. Whenever I shot a good one or found a piece of interesting stuff on the Internet, I add it to my collections respectively.

Each member of my family follows these procedure. Whenever we need someone else help, we can publish the album as Joint Album, so that others can contribute by adding photos into it.

If I need to show my works to someone who doesn’t have account setup on my server, I can make a photo blog out of an existing album and Nextcloud would be happy to share it to the outside world.

I believe organize photo in albums and the cleansing job in step 2 is a effective way to enhance my memory of those moments. I can locate a specific photo more quickly then using date/location/AI search among thousands of photos, even though Les Pas provide ways to do some of these search. It will take some extra time to do it, but you will get reward in the long run.

Yes, the iOS is the real challenge. Otherwise, you can have Les Pas and call it a day.

Nextcloud + Les Pas. It’s Joint Album feature might be what you are looking for.