Photos

Google’s official data export service, producing massive archives covering Gmail, Google Photos, Drive, YouTube history, Calendar, Contacts, Location History, and dozens more services. A single Takeout dump is the largest personal data ingestion event most people will ever perform — and a critical starting point for anyone building a personal digital archive.

The complete personal digital archive: ingesting a Google Takeout dump, organizing photos with AI-assisted browsing, archiving personal Telegram channels, preserving YouTube watch history and subscriptions, and tying it all together in a git-annex vault with browsable frontends.

A self-hosted, AI-powered photo management application with face recognition, automatic categorization, map views, and album management. In the con/serve architecture, PhotoPrism serves as a rich visualization frontend over git-annex-tracked photo archives, applying the data-visualization separation principle: photos live in git-annex, PhotoPrism provides the browsable UI.

A simple, self-hosted photo gallery designed for photographers who want a clean browsing experience over existing folder structures. Already deployed as a service in Lab-in-a-Box. Lighter than PhotoPrism, it reads photos directly from the filesystem without requiring import or database migration.