Guidelines for a better experience.
Pitara is an extremely user-friendly tool that opens a universe of options to search your photos. Once the tool done indexing your photos, it’s all yours to experiment with searches.
We want you to have best experience with Pitara and have therefore prepared a quick guide for a seamless experience.
- While copying photos to PC, keep the organization very simple.
- One sample scheme could be like “D:\<year>\<Detailed Event Name>”.
- Keep folder names as descriptive as possible, use multiple words, they will all be picked up and indexed. Few examples – “Camping at Olympic National Park“.
- Avoid redundant words in folder names like “photos”.
When copying photos from your phone
When copying photos from cell phones, it can get a bit tricky, as we don’t back up photos from phones very frequently, and photos are often more than thousands. In a situation like this, you can’t come up with just one possible event name. One idea is to add keywords like “Phone”, to name those folders so that you can use “Phone” in search for filtering. You could search like Phone Sammamish to get photos taken on your phone at Sammamish.
Old photos that are already on your PC
There is a huge possibility that you already have a ton of old photos that don’t follow the above guidelines. No worries at all, you still can search these photos with several keywords mentioned in the commonly allowed keywords. Naming folders correctly is just one extra help.
We suggest – In your free time rename folders slowly to meaningful names. Pitara would auto re-index.
Restructuring folders
Anytime you restructure folders, Pitara will auto re-index.
Photos with no metadata
When you scan an older photo, copy it from Facebook, or get it from WhatsApp it doesn’t have any metadata. To make these photos searchable they should be copied to PC with meaningful folder names. As long as there are enough meaningful keywords in folder names you can instantly search those later from Pitara.