Digital Photo Albums

After some searching, am having trouble finding a program to organise my daughters photographs.

Am looking for something that will upload the photo's, video and scanned documents onto a timeline so that we scroll along to a date and see what was happening then. My daughter is 4 now and we are finding that the software we have is too cumbersome to navigate through the plethora of images and video to find something specific.

Obviously we want to keep this as a private album and do not want it shared on the web, so am looking for a standalone program that can do this. Have been mucking around on this a while and the folder is getting larger by the day so are wishing to get this up and running sooner rather than later before it becomes entirely unmanagable.

Thanks.

Is it still the case that there is now widely agreed on tagging format for photos? With music most players can read most tags, but with photos tags made in one program are not readable in another. Or am i behind the times?

Mate. Why not just create sub-folders in explorer. You could go a different folder per year or per event.

I've got photos going back to 2001 across four cameras. I have a separate folder for different cameras (so photo naming conventions don't cause a problem) and then I group photos by activity. So I have holidays grouped (then sub folder for each trip etc) and another folder for diving photos.

It keeps things grouped nicely. You can keep creating sub folders as deep as you want so you can manage it easily.

Never played with tags and meta data but will probably need to start at some stage.

I try to set it up so that I don't have a massive number of photos per folder. Makes it much easier to manage