How to Remember Your Life

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Most of your life you just can't remember.
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This video explores how I organize pictures. You probably have more pictures than you know what to do with. Phones are amazing for taking lots of shots but often the result is too many photos. I have been thinking about how to organize photos for a really long time and this is my workflow to best remember your life by using photos. It uses cloud based storage between my phone and computer to help me see my photos often and it also uses some guiding concepts that help me delete more photos and better enjoy the ones I keep around. I hope this helps at least one person better remember their lives.
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@stalman 5 лет назад

The first reason I started photography was a weird fear of forgetting life.

@chrisbleezy2988 5 лет назад

Tyler Stalman I’m about to do the same, for the very same reason.

@TT-dw2tp 5 лет назад

That's why I started journaling.

@jordanoneill7052 5 лет назад

When I was a teenager I had a sudden realization that over the years I had thrown away all of my childhood toys and possessions in a slow process of attrition, and with them, I realized I had disposed of countless memories, feelings, and passions I had as a kid and will probably never recall again. Since that day I have been a keen photographer, and and terrified of losing my library of pictures.

@joseagueda8206 5 лет назад

Tyler Stalman this is totally true for me either

@legoat8747 5 лет назад

I feel like the reason I started photography (well a part of the reason I started photography) is because I guess in a way I wanted to recreate feelings I have or had for nostalgic memories I do remember but couldn't quite know how to tell people with the right words of why or how I feel those memories are so important for me. So I feel like through pictures I would be able to express the feelings I have for nostalgic moments in life I cant tell other people otherwise through words. And I hope through those pictures they'll in a way no exactly how I feel and the cunfusion I felt of why I couldn't tell them with words. But that's just one reason I want to do photography. There's many other reasons but this is probably the core important meaning behind it. But then again I don't take pictures as often as I would like to because I'm afraid of what other people would think which causes me to not take pictures. Then I feel terrible because I cant express my self or do what I love because the fear of others judging me. Also I tend to over think the reason why I take a picture. Most of the time I take the picture for how it looks rather than finding a meaning or story behind it, which will cause the photo to not be special. I don't know what I'm talking about, maybe I'm blabing nonsense. ok anyways sorry for the long message

@raghavsomani4319 5 лет назад

I do something similar, but for me, it happened my accident. Every time I hear a new song, I keep on listening to the same song until I get bored or a better songs comes my way. Essentially, what it has done is divided my life into various songs that I have loved at different points of my life. When I listen to the same song again in the future, I remember exactly what I was going through at that point of time in my life. This is truly magical for me.

@lz.ricardo7101 5 лет назад

This happens the same way with me, is incredible.

@alexandrosgoulas 5 лет назад

Me too, I've got a note on my phone where I write down for every month the most significant songs/albums that I loved in that period :)

@tired2sleep 5 лет назад

I do this too! I go by albums or artists sometimes.

@vikingthedude 5 лет назад

This is exactly what happens with me too

@wenhaoyang969 5 лет назад

omg I'm exactly the same!

@alexsimpson6452 3 года назад

A journal is a great thing to have while travelling. While the photos can capture the visual information, a journal can contain what you were feeling and thinking. The best part is that writing in your journal can be done at the end of the day when the memory is still fresh such that it doesn't interfere with the moment.

@DryEther 10 месяцев назад

I'm just 19 but I cry out of happiness reading my old journals.

@annaireton8816 10 месяцев назад

And maybe you can put some flowers for the scent

@forget.me.not. 10 месяцев назад

I did this during my first trip to Japan and I'm so glad I wrote about it! I wrote a lot about little, innocent moments that happened during my trip for a whole month, and reading now about them feels like time hasn't passed, I can remember things easily ☺ Also, recording sounds (I'm not talking about recording videos) is a very good option too, just sounds of the environment 🌱 And if you are comfortable drawing you can sketch little details during a trip or even during your regular days. It is also a nice way to practice drawing and relax for a few minutes ✏

@RitikKumar-ud3gc 10 месяцев назад

@@forget.me.not.I did journal writing for years but it requires lot of discipline, sometimes I don't want to recall a bad event from the day just to write in the journal...

@thanhngale5060 9 месяцев назад

Yah i do that and confimred

@KyalPOV 3 года назад

We tend to forget something because our brains need to delete unimportant information. Johnny, one of the techniques I always do when I try something new is listening to a new song. For example, add a new song to your playlist when you travel next time. Listen to it in the car, before sleep, during the day. 5-15 times a day. Then, when you're leaving the place, stop the song, remove it from your playlist. Wait for some time, then listen to that song again. It will bring all emotions and feeling you were experiencing at that moment.

@ganeshbhosale2068 10 месяцев назад

Works with me as well.

@evgeny636 10 месяцев назад

That’s so true

@murmeldin 10 месяцев назад

I had that unintentionally when being in France. Every time I was in the car, there was playing bad habits from Ed Sheeran. Every time I later heard that song, I was thrown back to my France exchange.

@christopheradams2645 9 месяцев назад

Wow, that's a brilliant idea

@John-yi6cz 9 месяцев назад

This!! I listened to an album for the first time while I was driving in the middle of nowhere on a California road with the windows down and the smell of oranges completely filled the car. It was amazing. I forgot about the album for months, but now whenever I listen to that memory comes back to me very clearly and it's one of my all time favorite albums.

@drfusioncraft 5 лет назад

Cries as a student where my photo album is 90% pictures of professor's writing on the board and 10% of actual social engagements.

@andorfb 5 лет назад

CamScanner (been using it for years) or something like it. It keeps a separate gallery and it can export to PDF. It keeps it nice and clean ;)

@Dhia_Hadhri 5 лет назад

@@andorfb that's not the point

@andorfb 5 лет назад

@@Dhia_Hadhri What is the point then?

@mattparker3068 5 лет назад

andorfb I guess maybe because he’s so busy as a student that he doesn’t get to go out and have social engagements. Although I like your suggestion, I’m going to go check the app out now

@andorfb 5 лет назад

@@mattparker3068 Don't know if it's the best app, It's just the one that I'm using. I get it now :) Here's how I understood it (through my personal experience): he HAS actual social interaction, but the memories are "buried" in an overwhelming number of photos for university. This is what used to happen to me. I went out a lot, but only took tens of pictures, that got lost in the gallery among hundreds of pictures of documents, whiteboards etc.

@unoriginalusernameno999 5 лет назад

This is worth doing a TED talk about.

@diyowl5496 5 лет назад

Absolutely. It's brilliant. It affects everyone.

@Felishamois 5 лет назад

Oh definitely. 12 sentences worth of information stretched out to fifteen minutes. A TED talk it is already still nice to watch tho

5 лет назад

I second this!

@ZelenoJabko 5 лет назад

It's not. It's quasi science that the world does not need more of.

@Felishamois 5 лет назад

@@ZelenoJabko eh it's still useful ways of thinking to be reminded of. I hope people don't take it as science although I'm sure some do due in part to its presentation

@Maacholas 10 месяцев назад

One thing I started doing in 2016 was to actually record videos of what I wanted to remember (like the ocean waves and the breeze on a sunset when in Monaco) and talk about what I was feeling in that video. It's crazy how good it felt to relive those memories years later.

@zaradess 3 года назад

I spent TWO MONTHS on deleting all the unnecessary photos. My family would say to me that it would be better if I did something more important. But deleting photos is greatly important to me! I always feel that when you sort out your photos, you sort out your memories as well! I had about 20K PHOTOS, but now I have only 2K and that’s enough for me. I feel SO GOOD while scrolling my photos now and sparking ONLY MEMORABLE photos in my head! Thank you so much for this video! Finally I found someone who mentions the importance of all this!

@Sayansv Год назад

how many years it took you to gather 20k photos?

@miguelosterroht 11 месяцев назад

I’m postponing this for way too long that I like to admit (probably the same time since this video was released) I have now 30k photos, and want to get down to 5k. Just got a big hard drive, plan on putting everything there, and just keep the best of the day on the phone. Will take a few weeks to get it done

@aisu5969 10 месяцев назад

i have 40 k photos and it took me 1.5 years to reach this number LOL I don’t even know how to start deleting them

@higherpower254 10 месяцев назад

@@aisu5969 that's like 75 photos a day. 😂😂😂

@Radu_NG 10 месяцев назад

@@miguelosterroht hey! ~ you don't have to stress that much, like just do it as a little routine, to "lose some free time". I want to start organizing my photos, on the premise that I will relive some memories down the road. :) Thanks! have a good day!

@drewnotdrey5156 5 лет назад

"only keep the ones that spark joy for you" *Marie Kondo joined the chat*

@nobu9705 5 лет назад

hahahahah~

@kadekagusambara2212 4 года назад

I see that reference

@justmart4455 4 года назад

Haha

3 года назад

Same energy

@bruhdabones 4 года назад

If google ever kills google Photos, my life will be done for

@elegantswordop3265 4 года назад

same

@lastminutefilms9012 4 года назад

I really like Johnny Harris’ approach and I do something similar! I’d suggest getting an external hard drive dedicated to just saving photos for memories. Categorize each photo by month and year and then you’ll have a vast array of years organized by folders refined by months where you can click into that month folder from June 2006 (for example), and you can relieve that month! That way you don’t need to rely on cloud services and you can access your photos via usb. The only thing with this method is that you have to be diligent in uploading your photos to the hard drive through your computer every so often.

@bruhdabones 4 года назад

LastMinuteFilms oh, I already do that! I haven’t reached the point where I need to go external, however. I have a 500GB ssd I use as a boot drive. I keep important games and programs on it as well, with 100gb left over for copying new photos/videos. When I’m done editing them, I’ll move them over to my 2TB hard drive, where I’ve been collecting and organizing pictures by year/month/day/phone:camera since 2016. But still, if the drive failed and Photos died, well that’d be 💀

@elegantswordop3265 4 года назад

@@bruhdabones yeah i agree, saving on external hard drives can be risky. My friend's 1TB wd hard drive stopped working with lots of game in it.

@bruhdabones 4 года назад

vivek K WD is also kinda bad, idk. LaCiE or whatever their name is makes rugged ones. Hard drives cannot handle lots of movement, so an external SSD is faster and safer tbh. But I’ll keep using my internal drive as long as possible, because 120MBps is not a thing USB can do. Forgot to mention, I also have a 1TB drive for any programs that don’t fit on my SSD. So the ssd is for fast and important stuff, the 1TB drive is for less important stuff, and the 2TB drive is for photos and videos.

@fourtweven 9 месяцев назад

I’m super forgetful. It’s pretty bad. My sister passed away a year ago. I loved photography and she loved modeling. I shot a lot of photos and videos of her. I captured so many sweet moments that I had completely forgotten about and only remembered when I was looking through my old pics and videos of her. I’m so glad I was able to capture those moments.

@TheSUPERHAPPY1 3 года назад

Record people's VOICE. I'd love to hear my grandparents voices. A video or audio recording of them talking or reading a book would be so precious to me

@DrPeppa-ux4jn 4 года назад

people hate it when i am always taking pictures but then they appreciate it when years later they have the memories because of my efforts!

@floroberg 4 года назад

THIS! I'M IN THE EXACT SITUATION! High five to all the record keepers out there!

@lisab2132 4 года назад

Yess, my friends always love my pictures I take with my camera even if they are annoyed in the moment when I have to ask to stop our hike for the one hundredth time😂

@charlotte22 4 года назад

Same here x1000. In fact I have stopped taking pictures lately because my flame got extinguished by the things said to me by the people closest to me. :((((( A little bit of me died that day.

@floroberg 4 года назад

@@charlotte22 your friendship was at stake unless you stopped taking pictures? Sounds like a shaky friendship from the start then

@charlotte22 4 года назад

@@floroberg No, it was more that I thought I was performing service by taking great pictures and later sharing them but I learned my efforts weren't appreciated in the least.

@thisistotallyfine 5 лет назад

Basically keep things (photos) that spark joy

@Ello927 5 лет назад

And spark memories

@mariahcareygreece 5 лет назад

Konmari method applies to everything

@tommyduque2383 5 лет назад

@@mariahcareygreece haha yep

@robinhood5529 5 лет назад

Make sure you say thank you for the memories before you click delete

@chilldude30 5 лет назад

Haha you sound like my girlfriend. Is this mary kondo or some shit lol

@TehZeeqoIK7R 3 года назад

my only way of recollecting events is actually by listening to music. as a big introvert, i’ve been listening to music basically 8hrs a day for almost 10 years. as i associate songs with memories, everytime i here some music, rythme or melody, it makes me relieve the said memorie. the only problem with that, is that i may forget the name of the song ..

@treasajanette7350 2 года назад

That's true.

@user-cj2dx5tf8g 3 года назад

"When was the last time you saw a hamster?" **me looking at my hamster**

@sheilablub 5 лет назад

"When was the last time you saw a hamster?" Me: *holding my pet hamster in my lap* Well then. Lmao

@jackarrow-journal5317 5 лет назад

"the scary thing is that you dont even remember when was the last time you saw a hamster"

@noodledoodle6029 4 года назад

I haven't seen one for real so far... Welp

@spiritgoesby7407 4 года назад

I remeber it

@pose7897 4 года назад

Jakub del Saar last time i saw one was in 2012 or some shit

@karini-xf6zl 4 года назад

@@noodledoodle6029 you haven't ever been in pet shops?

@nathanieldrew 5 лет назад

This is incredible, I'm so grateful that you made this.

@donotunsubscribe 5 лет назад

Fancy seeing you here! It's people like you and Johnny that drive the narrative of living an intentional life. Thank you both for your work, you're single-handedly changing lives out here.

@nicolasdegiosa287 5 лет назад

Hey man, love your channel!

@grahamdayy6043 4 года назад

i was actually thinking of you during the entire video

@Powaup 4 года назад

Nathaniel Drew I delete pics whenever I’m on a flight. Perfect time

@nikkoXmercado 4 года назад

Can't believe you're here

@theos115 3 года назад

As a photographer during this quarantine I started doing film photography. The message i want to share with others is that when you have only 36 or less shots you start thinking what do you actually want to memorize in the form of a photo. As you said Johnny less photos mean more time to put down the camera and just enjoy and live the moment. PS : I haven't developed the films i shot since June so memories are waiting//

@SuicideBunny6 3 года назад

There's this moment I remember from our trip to Italy we did with school. We'd done a whole day of bus trips and sightseeing and we ended the day by strolling through Florence. A couple of friends and me we had just bought ourselves a beer and sat down in the middle of the square, enjoying the evening sun, watching other people go by. I already had some pictures of the day and thought to myself, I should remember this moment and this feeling. I decided not to take a photo, cause it would've spoiled the moment, but I still remember that scene vividly.

@twentypaphnies108 5 лет назад

concerning the last step (reliving memories and the emotions that come with them): i started doing something over four years ago (when i was 15) with no intention of it ever becoming this big of a part in my life. but it did. and it's really simple but also really effective. i just make a lil 1-4 minute video every month containing photos and videos of that month, played over a song that i listened to alot or that was important to me because i listened to it in an especially memorable moment. now, i have this library of videos for every month, and every time i watch one i feel the way i felt in that time. i also got better in memorizing random events because i can always be like oh, that one time we drove around at 1am? that was in february '16, because i rewatch the videos so often that i know it's in there. (sorry for my english, isn't my first language)

@bennemann 5 лет назад

Great idea. And your English is fantastic! It sounds really natural, with the only mistakes being a few wrong prepositions (which is fine, native speakers make those mistakes too) and not capitalizing the first words of sentences (please at least always capitalize the pronoun "I", it's not "i"). But really, there is no reason to include that little message at the end in future comments, and no reason to be insecure about your English!

@TheoWentHome 5 лет назад

Love this! Will try this too :)

@jherrera15 5 лет назад

twenty paphønies that sounds awesome. I’m going to try to start doing that as well!

@twentypaphnies108 5 лет назад

@@bennemann wow thanks for the honest and nice reply, you rarely see that on youtube! i'm trying to get to a place where i'm happy with my english, but especially when writing about more complicated things like the videos, i sometimes get confused, but i'm happy it isn't that noticable!

@allyssa3410 4 года назад

very good thinking. in my case, i only upload photos relevant recently on a private album using facebook so thats really cool. where do u store the videos after?

@michalferdyn 4 года назад

Well I'll be honest - At the beginning of the video I was like: a) Does this actually work? b) Even if it does I don't take a lot of photos that "document" my life sooo ... it is probably not for me. Well, here I am after about one and a half hours going through my photos and deleting something around 6300 of them (granted its from like 2012 to today). The best part is that when I was going through them I was happy, laughing and even shedding a few genuine tears from the happy memories that it mead "re-live". It's not often that I comment on a RU-vid video but I wanted to share my thoughts & experience. Thank you for making this video and helping me "re-live" parts of my life

@zakbobby 4 года назад

Not gonna lie, somehow reading this brought a tear to my eye.

@chinmaymathur7000 4 года назад

@@zakbobby Same

@sashwatpandey4673 4 года назад

I am afraid that you can't have that "re-live" again.

@michalferdyn 4 года назад

@@sashwatpandey4673 Well yes, that's true but only partially. I go through my photos from time to time and the experience isn't the same - it's at a "That was fun/cool" level. I can 100% agree that when I was doing that for the first time the experience was amazing, then it sort of was less exciting/ emotional - I guess the "Law of diminy returns" applys to everything.

@MuhammadRaiyan135 3 года назад

why were u deleting em?

@Daisy-og8er 3 года назад

I actually use Snapchat for this. It is pretty convenient to take pics and save them to memories without having to post it. They also have throwbacks for each day so everyday I am reminded on where I was or what I did or what I wished 1 or 2 years ago, which is pretty great and motivating sometimes

@SunnySJamil 2 года назад

Snapchat photo quality is terrible, though. I stopped using it to take and save photos when I realized that pressing the download button on a Snapchat photo is the equivalent quality of taking a screenshot of your screen. Tremendous loss of quality and no meta data.

@Aethelhadas 2 года назад

Apple devices has the reminder too!

@AshitakaAD 2 года назад

Little advice for everybody reading this : I took photos both with Snapchat and stock photo app and I am so disappointed that I took a lot with snapchat ! When I wanted to export all my photos from every devices to one unique Photos album (the Apple software), I couldn't have the chronological order for the snapchat pictures. Indeed, saving pictures into Memories then exporting them make it loose their medatas, including picture capture date. that's a shame and I won't take photo with this app anymore because I add to put back dates on hundreds of photos

@arroe8386 Год назад

Actually a lot of apps do that and most are a better fit than Snapchat

@itchyeyesmcrealize165 3 года назад

You're the kind of bloke that makes me want to be a better person. Thanks for this.

@steffijose7185 4 года назад

I’ve always been shy and scared of cameras and years later when I looked into all the photos of our dance groups, parties, exchange programs ... I wasn’t there. It really makes you feel special looking back to your memories

@everythingsamsungpro445 4 года назад

I have similar friends and i talked them and changed them. Now they are bombarding instagram and whatsapp status with photos.😅.

@nunonunes097 4 года назад

Same situation. From 12 to 19, visually, my life is a blur. But oh well we can only change what's yet to come.

@YVZSTUDIOS 4 года назад

True. I think have just a handful of footage of myself when I was in highschool. But I think the reason also ties to the same reason why I didn't take selfies at that time 😅

@maryqueentelen8458 3 года назад

same thing for me. It's sad when I think about it.

@annagyorgyi1963 4 года назад

It just made me incredibly sad when you made me realise how much I've lost my memories

@tobiasgrijsen3943 3 года назад

Same here, especially since my SD card is getting corrupt, losing alot of files and ive basically had it for years... Lost so many photos and videos already

@harshrajnikam9445 3 года назад

2:44 In April of 2011, Indian International Cricket team lifted the World Cup after 28 years and I vividly remember the whole day of 2 nd April 2011........... Still gives me goosebumps when I recall it.

@espial 10 месяцев назад

I began doing this process two years ago without even having seen this video. I can't describe how amazing it has been. You are so right, limiting photos of each event DOES enhance the memory-making of that event!

@im650 4 года назад

i'm only 16 and i've been worrying about forgetting my life for years. i became a pic/video hoarder in a desperate attempt to have things documented as much as possible, even if they're really bad pic/vids. this video scares me, but i'm definitely going to try this right now and keep it in mind for the future. thank you :)

@macualey 4 года назад

i feel very simliar, i think these memories are great but it's also important that you can let go and live in the moment

@dsego84 4 года назад

you will forget, and that's okay. don't worry about it too much and enjoy life right now or you'll miss it.

@Jo24Park 3 года назад

How did it go?

@bryan.w.t 3 года назад

Same. I hoard way too much photos. Now, I'm sorting all of it and hide the duplicates. I like Johnny's philosophy but I'm too scared to delete them

@miguelmelo2663 3 года назад

Ughh I wish I did exactly this starting at 16, I'm now almost 18 and the last two years have been the best of my life but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna forget them 😥 I already did forget some things :/ Anyways I didn't take almost any photos mostly because I hate taking photos and I just like living in the moment and feeling the moment without being bothered with photos or the future. But now that I watched this video and realized how important it is to document my life and I regret not having documented anything I'm gonna start making an effort to take more photos (and then delete most of them lol)

@tjpwithdonte5189 5 лет назад

This is why I journal. Those little random memories you don't even know you want to remember. The dates he mentions had me running through Journals getting as close as I could to the dates. I need to write more this was fun!!!

@prettylittleravenna 5 лет назад

Do you have like a daily schedule for journaling? I can't get into regular schedule for the life of me, tried doing it in the morning, in the evening before bedtime, during the day, etc. Maybe journaling is just not for me, but I love the concept so much, so I'm not giving up

@tjpwithdonte5189 5 лет назад

@@prettylittleravenna No I keep my journal on my computer desk were I spend most of my time or on the night stand by my bed. It makes remembering to write a little easier.

@prettylittleravenna 5 лет назад

TJP With Donte Good idea

@monkiram 5 лет назад

I kept journals for short periods of my life and I love reading them, it's such a crazy glimpse into my past mind which no amount of photos could bring back. It's just way too hard for me to keep it up for any significant amount of time :(

@prettylittleravenna 5 лет назад

Momera Same 😩

@juanmayorga4702 11 месяцев назад

I´ve been doing this for the past two months now, and is a fact that not only you save a lot of space and remember better things that you forgot; It makes you feel more lighter, more aware of where you are and why. Great video!

@mogzswamp8047 3 года назад

Extremely powerful pitch, that’s exactly what I needed to hear in my life. I kind of lost the motivation for photography because of over abusing it. Thank you so much for this. Hit straight into the heart

@IzHarris 5 лет назад

BRB gotta go cry over how big our babies are. I'M FINE.

@Camila53658 5 лет назад

I think the best part about what you guys do on this platform, is having a way to look back. Years from now when the kids are 20, you'll have all of this to look back at. Great reason to keep it up💖 Love.

@ahmxtb 5 лет назад

Iz Harris AWW

@sarthakbhole3724 5 лет назад

You really have a partner to be proud of. You probably gonna have most of your moments/memories catalogued.

@JavierB1988 5 лет назад

@DerekCastillo 2 года назад

I love how thoughtful and intentional you are. You're the man.

@thesoftestgloww 11 месяцев назад

I needed this. Thank you. For some time I become really afraid of not having beautiful moments of my life captured on the photos, and I also had a some sort of anxious perfectionism that led to tons of pictures in my gallery, many of them looking just similar. But recently I started to understand that the most important thing is to actually feel these moments. To be present as fully as possible. With no camera. And several pictures are really enough.

@n0stalg1a 5 лет назад

Yes, I do remember July 17, 2007... that's my birthday ;)

@w8q0gbvsadgu 5 лет назад

Hmmm i was 5, hard to remember.

@IzawaYuki 5 лет назад

Mine too 🤪

@GameKraken 5 лет назад

I was a little over two and a half years old, so I have little recollection

@vznquest 5 лет назад

Same here!

@vishalsanthosh595 4 года назад

Happy Belated Birthday wishes Eva !! 😍💐

@lps-emily 4 года назад

One of my absolute favourite things to do is a "one second of the day" where i document every day of the year in one second increments. As a photographer myself, I find this the best way for me. When I see a snippet of the day, I'm most likely to remember it, without losing all feeling through taking 200 photos. Watching it at the end of the year is SO rewarding and those 6 minute videos are something I'm going to have for the rest of my life. You also get so many mundane experiences as I'm not going on trips every day, and little things like doing homework or watching the rain are so much more meaningful and memorable :)

@mimikai6808 3 года назад

I started doing this exact thing this year, and so far, i adore it.

@Leo9ine 3 года назад

For anyone curious, there's an app that makes it easy. "1 Second Every Day"

@DadSkool 3 года назад

dont take photos for you, take them for those you leave behind bc inevitably you will forget them all. I take many pics and double back them up every decade for my kids, not me but for the pics i really want to make sure they stay, i put in a photo album bc it only takes a solar flare to lose everything digital which is also inevitable. Most likely my grand kids will have a few photo albums that i bothered to print, alot more than the 1 photo album of my childhood. Print the pics you really want to last imo, keep the rest. Sort of the same as this video but smarter i think

@emmamakesbadart 3 года назад

I did it when i was in highschool because there was an app but then lost all progress when switching phones, so i stopped. I think im going to pick it up again

@DadSkool 3 года назад

@@emmamakesbadart omg, thats awful, just take normal selfies in the same spot every day. Now you just need to figure out how to put it into reverse bc i think it would suck to watch yourself age in front of your eyes, then look into a mirror :(

@amandamulvaney8437 Год назад

Since our brains evolved to remember the bad stuff easier than the good stuff (to avoid it/learn/survive) I really really appreciate having photos of the good times. Great video!! I appreciate this in depth explanation of experiences around taking photos!!

@ahmadhasan3258 10 месяцев назад

You had me locked in a trance from the moment you have started reliving memories with the car breaking down till the end. Thank you for this video. This is a problem I recognized but had no way of addressing. You did that for me. Thank you

@Mr.Voysey 5 лет назад

This guy is just flexing his photographic memory

@pokefanchanti 3 года назад

shut up and the fact u dont have any replies is crazy

@TheGreatSatan_ 3 года назад

And he's flexing his iMac and iPhone working together to the Windows guys

@beckwilde 5 лет назад

I'm one of those peoples that feel upset when I realize that our memories fade. I wish I could take candid pictures in special moments all the time because I don't ever want to forget about that feeling - ever.

@beyzaaa3585 4 года назад

Rebecca Chen you could write it down so you dont forget about it at all

@Fogmeister 3 года назад

I've been doing this recently without realising why. I had photos on group trips of people I had long forgotten but by going through and deleting them I was remembering the places and the feelings and the smells and sounds. And places I had never even taken photos of. It's definitely good to have the photos there to create a trigger for the memories but you're spot on about the act of taking photos stopping the absorption fo the rest of the spectrum of the experience.

@SuperNinjaMcMaster 10 месяцев назад

I'd like to add that communal storytelling is sort of a lost art but such a beautiful idea for how to remember small and big events with loved ones. And yes, you can create a story on your own, documenting the details and themes of your own life by immersing yourself in your experiences and "romanticizing" them as if you're in a book or a movie, maybe with the aid of a journal. But if you have the opportunity and people willing, try sparking conversations about that trip you had or that time you got caught in the rain. Combined with Johnny's point that you need to slow down each moment and let your brain absorb the senses, I think your memory will be more powerful than you think.

@TinyWorlds 5 лет назад

Marie Kondo your memories basically ^^

@mossmoss2019 5 лет назад

tinyruin THEY SPARK JOY

@NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад

This video really hit home to me... I took videos of my grandfather and I playing cards last year before he passed away. Nothing special, just something he and I would do after school when I was a kid and when I was home on break from college. After he passed away last year I look back on those videos as the most important possession in the world to me. I strive to find the line between capturing my life and being in the moment, but as someone who is very paranoid about forgetting things I skew towards documentation. I think photos and videos ground me to where I was and what I was feeling. Most people will never see them. I’m making a little time capsule for nobody, but it’s a bit of comfort in the void. I hope one day to show my own grandkids HD footage of their great great grandfather so they can maybe see how special he was. Where words fail me videos can do justice. Thank you for another great video Johnny, this is making me pretty emotional at the office.

@Ello927 5 лет назад

I like when you said, "I'm making a little te capsule for no one." Sounds like the title of a deeply philophical book

@carsoncoleman7 5 лет назад

Oh hey! I remember seeing you on a vlogbrothers video(?) and watched a few of your videos. Cool to run into you!

@NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад

Carson Coleman the internet is pretty small sometimes! Thanks for checking us out!

@NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад

Meghna Raj well I suppose I have to write it now!

@nyeaw 5 лет назад

Having a time capsule is a great idea

@nikolat1696 3 года назад

I am so glad I stumbled on this video. Forgetting memories has been troubling me for quite some time, and issues with lightroom you mentioned, after losing a ton of metadata, just made me quit cataloging photos. Thank you for reigniting this idea, it was very moving to watch the insights into your process.

@blueispog 2 месяца назад

i wish more people understood this stuff.

@pineapeach1696 5 лет назад

I've been writing down everyday in my journal. It only takes 5 minutes. Then you read your journal on your birthday; wishing to do better in the coming year.

@waluigi3515 4 года назад

You're so right, thanks. I'll try to do this for 2020, this is advice i plan to remember :)

@abhimanyuroy7743 4 года назад

Don't you ever run out of Journals....

@miskaball1734 4 года назад

@@waluigi3515 Hi, you can try this journal www.amazon.co.uk/One-Line-Day-Five-Memory/dp/0811870197 basically you write very short paragraph about every day... i do it 3 yrs already and I always remember situations and feeling I think i lost already... :)

@abhimanyuroy7743 4 года назад

@@miskaball1734 It helped, thanks.

@bryan.w.t 4 года назад

Casey Neistat: "I NEVER delete any footage"

@bl4ck1911 4 года назад

yes because when you're a creator, you use even random small footage to put in compilations so you have the sense of continuity going on

@shifanMmed 4 года назад

And Dave 2d "I delete all the videos as soon as I upload them to RU-vid" 😂😂

@lilig6773 2 года назад

Watching this again two years later after a summer full of adventuring and not an exorbitant amount of picture taking... Thank you 🙏

@Avealua 3 года назад

Those are some invaluable pieces of advice! What my wife and I also do, we made a habit to make physical albums every year on St. Valentine's day with photos from the previous year. We take turns in composing and ordering those albums, so this year I make it, and the next year my wife will make another one. It takes some effort to condense 1 year to an album that comprises of 30-40 photos, but it's worth it. It's so nice to look through, like a book, and it's nice to show around when you gather your friends and relatives. We now have 7 of those and we intend to keep it going till the end ;)

@michelekendzie 5 лет назад

As someone who has been recording my life since 1980, I identify with this. I was surprised you didn’t mention journaling. That would be a way to record smells and feelings. I’ve journaled in many ways but for a few years now I’ve been committed to journaling digitally, using the Day One app. You can even add audio to entries, so sometimes I do that to record the ambience. I also caption my photos in Lightroom. By the way, I have tens of thousands of photos in LR and it’s running fine; not bogged down. And because I caption them, I can search and find what I’m looking for pretty efficiently.

@shelbyrayne5893 4 года назад

Ive journaled for years as well. It is so therapeutic and beneficial. That app sounds amazing!

@saranshgothi3720 3 года назад

Yeah journaling and clicking pictures is like book and movie Some like reading it some visually looking at it

@realSonNguyen 9 месяцев назад

How magic is that, I've been searched for weeks for an app that can do exact the same thing like Day One, but I couldn't because didn't know the keyword. Thank you so much!

@rachelpang310 5 лет назад

This is basically why I have kept a journal since 8th grade

@apacheglider 5 лет назад

I've always had this fantasy of keeping at least a thought/photo a day, but picking up bad habits seems to be the only consistent thing in my life

@JustAnotherMe 5 лет назад

I started being more deliberate about keeping a journal and never miss a day, just answering 'so how was your day?'. But with just 1 year, there's so much written in it that I wonder if I'll ever read it? No one can possibly go back and read all that so what's the point anyway? The more data there is the less useful it becomes. Maybe I need to konmari that too.

@RashmikaLikesBooks 5 лет назад

Having it on a Word document instead of physical notebooks have helped me since I write too much, and it allows for navigation and search.

@DsVibe 5 лет назад

3rd grade, though not consecutively

@vin_2620 5 лет назад

@@JustAnotherMe digitising them can save a lot of space. Also, handwriting recognition is bound to improve in the future so they can become searchable and editable at some point.

@piratze5945 9 месяцев назад

I am normally a person that isn't very emotional, however your videos have something ebout them, especially the soundtrack, that makes me feel kinda melancholic/sad in a good way. Maybe that sounds kinda weird/silly, but what I want to say is that your videos are very special! Please never stop making mezmerizing content!

@anantoutshaho5509 10 месяцев назад

I love the way you tell stories. You are such a great storyteller. You have the power to say specifically what the viewers want to listen. It is a very interesting video that I really like.

@j07harper5 5 лет назад

there're some gorgeous moments i've experienced in my life and even if i brought a phone by, i just don't want to take pictures, instead i stand there and use all my senses like, to feel. i wished the time was stopped for a few minutes just to let me sit on the rock and look very very far away across the foggy landscape. personally i don't regret that much. there's plenty of things out there could "spark joy" and be a string that connects me with nostalgia.

@mackenziegulutzen2015 5 лет назад

Truong Laivan honestly I do the same. I sit/stand and put myself into a full awareness of what’s going on, and it helps me to remember how I was feeling and what it smelt like. It’s truly crazy and amazing!

@DrewCrawford_com 5 лет назад

I couldn't help but notice how our memories resemble the universe - with the most memorable moments being the brightest stars... knowing that there is more out there in the void, even if we are unable to "see" it in this very moment. Great video Johnny!

@godskisonsunday 11 месяцев назад

In 2013, I backpacked through France, Andorra, and Spain with a friend, and decided to do a travel sketchbook. I didn't set enough time aside, so the drawings are all rushed, and incomplete. But I learned a lot, and I love looking back on them. More importantly, a new habit was formed. I highly recommend drawing and journaling as a way to connect with the moment. It's had arguably the largest impact on how I see the world and my place in it.

@cyber_cowpoke 11 месяцев назад

This is absolutely amazing! As someone who deleted Instagram for personal reasons, I have struggled to document and remember my life. THIS is the answer to that and I am SO glad I found this video!!

@astralaxolotl8700 4 года назад

I believe that we are made to forget our memories. We aren't designed to remember every good memory in our lives! If it was efficient and good for us to remember so much then our brains would have evolved to do so. I think this kind of obsession with recording every good moment is setting ourselves up for mental health problems and anxiety - living in the past good memories rather than focusing on the present moment. Just my two pence. Peace

@leonmuller8475 4 года назад

Leon Nixon But our Brains remember nearly everything, you just need a trigger for your faded memories to come back. So with your logic we are meant to remember nearly every thing, because our brains do.

@antonk5414 4 года назад

Plus it's a way for the brain to detoxify all the "useless" data in order to keep working and be able to absorb new information. It would keep only the highlight and important things. It's like an organic computer with limited hard drive space lol.

@user-ue2zk5xz6r 4 года назад

Who made and design us that way ?

@hoixthegreat8359 4 года назад

@@user-ue2zk5xz6r God? Evolution? Depends who you ask. Though, there's an evolutionary benefit to not being able to recall every day and it's memories.

@technicolorskies5432 4 года назад

I wouldn't worry about it, evolution doesn't give a shit about our mental health.

@ChrisHernandoTV 5 лет назад

Robin Williams - "If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I’ll bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling". From Good Will Hunting.

@Schneeeulenwetter 5 лет назад

Chris Hernando the ceilings is just as nice! hahaha

@saammmy7 5 лет назад

It smells like too many slightly sweaty tourists jammed into one room ;)

@lewisharold 4 года назад

Logic and reason is a machine.

@Loganomics 8 месяцев назад

This is absolutely amazing and significant. I often think about how, until recently, did not know what my great great (and beyond) grandparents names were. I did not know what they did for fun, for money, what they sounded or walked like. I simply have 2 or 3 still portraits of them and a few stories handed down word of mouth. When WE are great great grand parents, our great great grandkids will know what we looked like, what we sounded like, how we laughed, what we laughed at, how we walked, how we cooked, how we danced, who are friends were, what cars we drove, what our most boring days looked like, what our extravagant events looked like, what made us tick, etc. Photography is a time capsule we all have easy access to.

@davegball 3 года назад

One of the more interesting videos I've ever watched on RU-vid. (and I watch a lot). I'm going to start implementing this approach immediately. Thank you.

@josiecarpenter2046 4 года назад

I used to think about this on the bus and I realized that I didn’t remember the day before on the bus. I even decided in my mind I would remember that day, but I didn’t really, all of the times I rode the bus blended together so I have no idea if it was dark and cold, or sunny and warm. I rode the bus twice a day for years. It’s kinda sad.

@toniqa3 4 года назад

hey I do that too.

@Shilly 3 года назад

This the same for everyone because its easier for us to process.

@MrXIndependent 4 года назад

You were coming from a place where you took too many photos. (I've always thought that taking photos made you forget about experiences, or made you not fully experience moments in the first place.) So, I'm coming from a place where I take almost NO photos so that I can fully immerse myself and appreciate the moments for what they are. I figured if I don't remember something, then it must not have been influential to me or my life. However, there are usually some exceptions for things that I might have really liked but forgot about. So, I made it a point to only take pictures of things that I know that I absolutely never want to forget. Yet, I still feel like I haven't taken enough pictures in my life, to fill the gaps in between my favorite memories. So I want to thank you for providing a well thought out process for documenting life in a way that still remains mostly non-obtrusive to the immersive live-life-in-the-moment experience. I'll try to go at my own pace in taking more photos. Cheers!

@Aethelhadas 2 года назад

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. Really made me think.

@carmastermax2129 10 месяцев назад

This video is awesome 😊 I found that from my last few years of travelling with my family, sketching places on the day really helps build an image in my head of what was going on around me, the sounds and sometimes smells when I was drawing that picture. I realise that it is a very specific thing to do to remember locations, events etc. But looking at one of my sketches even years after doing it brings me right back to the moment I drew it and sometimes what I was doing for the rest of the day.

@alyssameyerdirk7503 3 года назад

I love this concept. I feel inspired to go on a delete spree on my phone. I have experienced the benefit of limited photos and sensory immersion through shooting on film. I have to ration my 24-36 exposures which forces me to slowdown and really be in the moment. Also not being able to immediately see the image playback helps me not rely so much on the outcome as experience the moment. Then I get to relive and remember the moment when I get my rolls developed sometimes weeks or months later and I'm also not overwhelmed with tons of photos. These often are my most special memories.

@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod 4 года назад

You take really nice pictures.

@salehhoque2072 5 лет назад

I can honestly say Johnny Harris is my favorite RU-vidr/Filmmaker now. It was Casey Neistat back in the day but after now Johnny's on that threshold alone. Iz is also such a sweetheart and funny in matching Johnny's somewhat opposite personality calmer characteristics. Fav couple on RU-vid hands down. Just chill personalities and the best storytellers

@chirantanmahanti2627 2 года назад

I have really been thinking for the last few days abt how i was gonna document my life and come back to it years later. We are sooo lucky to be living during these times of tech. Thanks John for this video. Love from India :)

@caiua07 9 месяцев назад

I do something like that too. First I went through my old photo albums, scanned the most significant ones, and now I have this arquive saved at the cloud where I keep all the relevant pictures of my life since birth at chronological order.

@florentinw 5 лет назад

How do you handle Screenshots? - My Library is Full of them

@Floris.G 5 лет назад

On iPhone there's an album for all screenshots. Then I guess you only keep the ones that spark memories or joy. I think Google Photos has something like that too. I'm saving some screenshots from the "draw something" game. Good memories when I see those drawings :)

@taylojam 4 года назад

make a favourite meme album discard the rest (maybe extract important info in a google drive document, or cloud based note)

@mackinleyparham3716 4 года назад

Google Photos!!!!!!

@bryan.w.t 4 года назад

Archive them all, then open the screenshots folder to find them

@labibrashidinan9868 4 года назад

Firefox ScreenshotsGO

@jordinarylife1323 4 года назад

This needs to be talked about much more! Coming from a Filipino family, all of my relatives are all so caught up with taking pictures and videos of every second of an event or an experience, but sometimes I fear that they're living through the pictures and not the actual moment. Like you said, the visuals are there, but the immersive experience (the feelings and senses) of that present moment is lost

@annaeeee7516 3 года назад

I was fortunate enough to visit Hawaii for the first time last year and then went back 6 months later. The first time I took photos nonstop, but after the trip was over, I found myself not remembering those details, feeling like I had been so focused on documenting everything that I didn't really take it in. I said to myself that the next time I was there I would take a few photos, and then sit for a moment and take it all in, like you said. That was the best decision I made. The second time was my true first time "being" there. I still took photos, but limited myself to taking them in the beginning of the experience, and then putting my phone away and just sitting there, enjoying the wind and the beautiful views. Thank you for making this video and reminding people to live in the moment.

@MrRetri8 3 года назад

journaling, even never reading back, just once writing it down, helps a lot to remember. also i've never thought about actually deleting photos, only selected them, but i'm sure it works. amazing video, thank your for all the advice

@jordymcneill 5 лет назад

This is such a unique, important video that EVERYONE should watch, thanks for the inspo Johnny!

@timetravelmm3042 5 лет назад

No way every person in the universe is going to watch this. You're such a dreamer.

@ohhlena1460 5 лет назад

I also love the concept of printed photo books :) thank you for the video Jonny, I will rethink my process with photos

@goobda 3 года назад

Yeah man that was really interesting. I too have been downsizing my huge bulk of photos, often of the same thing. I remember when you had to get your photos developed and so each photo was precious. Photos capture our lives and hence they are our histories. I appreciate your advice on organizing photos for a more memorable life.

@livlit Год назад

Such wisdoms and a truly beautiful video. Thank you!

@DefinitelyNotAdolfHitler 4 года назад

this vid is an enlightenment to me, i was so preoccupied capturing moments with my cameras to re-live it later but killed them in the process, such irony

@patriciaabreu7230 4 года назад

For me "being in the moment" happens before the pictures. Taking pictures happens kind of in between - after i've gone through my first "impression" of the moment, i seal that in with some photos - but sandwich it into a bit more of absorbing of this experience- whether I'm alone or not. Good times to take a photo: when you're turning a corner, walking out of a building, returning to the same spot after covering a place that "loops". Make the most out of the moments you won't remember and take your photos then. But always let your brain take it all in.

@Simone-zc2nk 3 года назад

another great way of remembering feelings is through creating art!

@martinharrisFTW 11 месяцев назад

Agree with the concept, but not the delete approach. Instead, favourite the photos you want to "keep". The reason for this is that you now have a curated library of just memories and not other non-photo bits (eg screenshots, receipts). And if one of your loved ones passes away or similar, if you want to really go back to that specific point in time you can use the favourite photo of that time as your 'signpost' of time, then you can go to that date and find all of the photos from that day! Another plus is that google nest, chromecast, and the other smart-screen devices have the ability to slideshow an album. So set it up with your favourite album and you've got a changing slideshow of your memories! If you have an iphone, connect icloud photos to google photos for syncing and favourites are carried over automatically!

@julius43461 10 месяцев назад

I kind of do this in that I copy the favorite photos to a different folder, which I use to select some for printing. That way I have both a curated library and one that satisfies my OCD.

@duybachvu1891 5 лет назад

"you have got this amazing camera with you at all times" looking down at my nokia with VGA camera...

@davideographer4410 5 лет назад

At least yours is indestructible! 😄

@waluigi3515 4 года назад

well that's you, he's talking about the general public, and the general public has an amazing camera with them at all times.

@Sahilxsachdeva 5 лет назад

I really don't follow travellers. But this man! Your videos. Your basic tips. Everything about this channel and you, is just so peaceful to watch. Keep up the good work. Keep inspiring ♥️

@MissSassieee 11 месяцев назад

I really loved this video. I love to combine my photos with my journal to relive the moment. Once a year I make a photobook to keep the memories alive and relive those moments every time I pick up my photobook 😊

@priyankkeshri1619 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Harry, you're incredible. I use to review my photos from time to time. But your perception towards it is eye opening

@kelseyp.9667 4 года назад

Actually, this such a good concept, at the end though when he was talking about what photos sparked joy all I could think of was Marie Kondo cleaning out closets and saying to only keep the clothes that sparked joy.

@jjxlifts 5 лет назад

Very interesting, instead of photos, I use music to remember. When I’m in the moment , I listen to a song, after five years when I listen to the song again, I completely immerse into my memory. Edit : and yes I take photos and mostly use film but as clear as you stated 14:50 it’s more of experiencing the moment than capturing it

@do9bellbessa545 3 года назад

the part you started talking about porto almost made me cry a bit, I studied there for 4 years and I miss that place and its sensations deeply also I feel like I have been applying this logic in my life, I decided one day to make a video with music with all the unnecessary small videos I had on my hardrives and now I have this nicely edited video that shows me and my friends lives passing by to a nice sounding song

@DarcyLane Год назад

This is great man! You articulate things that I’ve realized in my own, but can’t wrap my head around.

@DCAMM720 5 лет назад

*looks through insane library of photos, remembering things I had forgotten about* *Cries uncontrollably*

@seeker2450 4 года назад

I feel that

@tanjimmishkat2610 5 лет назад

Damn this is easily one of my fav youtubers! Keep up the good content man!

@May04bwu 3 года назад

I never liked being in photos so I never took many. I had about a hundred photos with my friends throughout my teens and some with my family. They were all lost when both my computer and my backup external disc stopped working. Now everyone is gone, moved to other countries or they have families so we don't see each other. My dad passed away when I was 17 and even though we spent hours together every week, I can't recall it properly. What he was like, what he looked like in detail, what he sounded like. It's been 9 years. I can't recall the happy moments with my friends either. And now it's all gone. Take pictures with your loved ones, people. You'll be grateful for it one day.

@maximusgillespie9964 3 года назад

This is my favorite video. Ever. This is just great. I’m gonna start doing this. I always take too many pictures! I hope this means a lot to you because you did a great job with this. Also love all your videos, but especially this one. Great job

@mitch7w 5 лет назад

This was very thought-provoking.

@vorkosigan28 4 года назад

I would only add to TAKE VIDEOS they are so often much better than photos.

@Weyird 4 года назад

I try to take a single 10 - 20 second video of some places, just so I can remember the sounds and movement and energy of a place. I really like them.

@NilsWesthoff 4 года назад

I like video a lot too, but unless I make an edit, I won't watch them ever again. Unlike photos. But if you have any suggestions to casually have videos in your life like I have photos up on my tv, I'd love that!

@annaeeee7516 3 года назад

@@Weyird yes! I love doing this too. There's more to help you remember how you felt in that place 😊