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Pro tip: I was wasting hours on site photos before I tried a simple naming trick
For the last two years on my jobs in Phoenix, I'd take hundreds of daily progress photos and just dump them into a folder called 'Site Pics'. I thought I was being organized. Then last Tuesday, my super asked for a specific shot of the plumbing rough-in from three weeks back. I spent 45 minutes scrolling through over 2,000 unnamed photos and came up empty. That was the tipping point. The next day, I started naming every photo with the date, trade, and location, like '041524_Plumbing_UnitB_Kitchen'. Now, finding a photo takes 10 seconds. It's such a basic thing, but it changed my whole week. Has anyone else found a simple tech habit that saved them a ton of time on site?
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lunaf672mo ago
Read about a guy who tags photos by room number too.
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leo_fisher2mo ago
Switched to cloud folders by trade, game changer.
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jamie_carter872mo ago
That's a solid move. It's easy to forget the security side of things. Having everything in one cloud folder means you can lock it down with one strong password and two-factor auth, instead of worrying about a dozen different logins. If your laptop gets lost or stolen, you can just cut off access from your phone. It turns a security headache into something you can actually manage.
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