But I don't feel like doing it right now!
Would it not be great to have someone who loves to file and sort and catalogue for us. Sorta like a photographer,s secretary. As soon as I hit the lottery I will hire such a person, if such a person exists.
I've been lazy with photography in general. Miserable summer here, hot humid. Lots of home projects too. Thoroughly soaked my clothes most days. So I spent most of my spare time on the couch enjoying the air conditioning when not working my projects. So I know the feeling of not wanting to mess with things.
Anyway, I like to add keywords in stages. It seems like less work. You can tag multiple pictures and apply keywords or use the spray tool to apply. I might tag a whole folder with something like 'lake', school', 'vacation', or a town name, etc. Whatever you can think of that applies to all. Then I break it down from there trying to group as many as possible for a given keyword. After tagging all with a general word, I might go back and add 'bird', 'bug' or people names. You can continue to tag in bulk even if previous key words are already applied, it won't overwrite previous words. So for something tagged 'lake', you can go back later and add 'duck' to a subset of those without affecting the previous words added. And lightroom remembers previous words you have used, so when you start to type the word it comes up as a suggestion. It goes really quick and doing it in waves makes it less tedious for me. Go for one general word, then rest, lol. Then add a few more words when you feel like it. Surprisingly, even one or two words can help you find things later. Once you get started, I think you will get more into it and maybe even enjoy it. I love being able to find stuff.
I could trust my wife or daughter with this. Lightroom missed the ball with the tablet version. I have no urge to edit on a tablet. But to tag or organize on the run would be great. Or better yet hand the tablet to my daughter to earn some gas moneyOh yes wouldn't it - and have them think exactly like us and not tag something the wrong way.
Now that is what I call organised @Don Kuykendall
Have to smile though because for me 99.99% of my shots would be in one location.
This plan was set up due to desperation of years of doing nothing and never being able to find a photo that I needed.
I have around 15000 shots in my Lightroom catalog and I have a set routine which works for me and is pretty quick.
Before I start the import off, I add all keywords that are applicable to each shot of the import and apply an import preset which applies the lens correction profile, CA removal and automatically corrects the exposure. Once the import is complete, I add keywords that are appropriate to each individual shot.
I then go through and give the shots a star rating - Anything that is 1 star get deleted then I edit the remaining shots. After editing, I revise the star ratings again deleting any 1's.
Like Don, I like the Geotagging too, but I only use it for wildlife - Over time I can build up a picture of where I have taken my best Red Kite / Buzzard shots etc and it has helped with learning their hunting areas etc too.
This is exactly what I want to do but have yet to work out how to do it all prior to import; such as the keywords and a preset import with lens correction, CA removal and auto exposure.
And I seem to have hidden my star rating.
It sounds like a lot of work but I am sure it saves hours