Photo Library Management
Photo Library Management
[A line graph is shown. The x-axis is labeled "Photos taken per day" and the y-axis is labeled "Time spent going through photos per day". The content is divided into six sections:]
[Section 1: Few photos taken per day, no limit to time spent:] "No problems" [Section 2: Some photos taken per day, a limited amount of time spent going through:] "Photo library fits on most devices as long as they're not too old" [Section 3: More photos taken per day, less time spent going through:] "Need cloud storage, external hard drive, or frequent upgrades" [Section 4: A lot of photos taken per day, and even less time spent going through:] "Photo library grows faster than Moore's Law" [Section 5: Above line increasing where more time is spent as more photos are taken:] "Can't find the good photos among the thousands of bad ones" [Section 6: Below line of negative gradient, as number of photos increases and time decreases:] "Can't sleep, too busy sifting through photos to find the best one"

The comic is about the results of how many photos one takes. It is a graph showing multiple areas corresponding to the number of photos taken per day by a user and the total time spent reviewing them.
The comic is split into 6 sectors as described below:
As Randall goes through more photos, he finds more bad ones, erases them and more storage becomes available. This allows taking more photos and still don't exceed the limits of the quota. This is why the "secondary" lines (e.g between the different storage types) are not completely vertical but tilted to the right at the top.
The title text states "A good lifehack is to use messy and unstable systems to organize your photos. That way, every five years or so it becomes obsolete and/or collapses, and you have to open it up and pick only your favorite pictures to salvage." If you know that you will lose everything, that knowledge will encourage you to save what you want the most and leave everything else. It will also help decrease how many photos you have through the same awareness.
[A line graph is shown. The x-axis is labeled "Photos taken per day" and the y-axis is labeled "Time spent going through photos per day". The content is divided into six sections:]
[Section 1: Few photos taken per day, no limit to time spent:] "No problems" [Section 2: Some photos taken per day, a limited amount of time spent going through:] "Photo library fits on most devices as long as they're not too old" [Section 3: More photos taken per day, less time spent going through:] "Need cloud storage, external hard drive, or frequent upgrades" [Section 4: A lot of photos taken per day, and even less time spent going through:] "Photo library grows faster than Moore's Law" [Section 5: Above line increasing where more time is spent as more photos are taken:] "Can't find the good photos among the thousands of bad ones" [Section 6: Below line of negative gradient, as number of photos increases and time decreases:] "Can't sleep, too busy sifting through photos to find the best one"
