There’s a reward for taking photos of your documents and saving them to Google Photos: everything automatically saved and sorted by albumsThis is something you’ve had in the Google Photos app since last year, and you can now do it from the website too.
Google Photos web version is now available a section for documents where you can quickly find all your receipts, IDs, credit cards, notes or screenshots. These are automatically created albums, with the added benefit that you can configure them to be automatically deleted after 30 days.
Your documents in Google Photos
Google Photos is where your photos are saved and also where photos to store documents or screenshots. In fact, it’s common to find it difficult to find what you’re looking for with so much out there.
Google Photos has a great search for this, with object recognition, which it joined last year. Document managementwhich is not exactly the same. Documents have their own place in the app and now on the web.
You will find A new section called Documents In the side panel of the Google Photos website or through this link that contains albums automatically created with different types of documents.
Such documents include, but are not limited to, screenshots, identification documents, event information, books and magazines, payment methods, notes, recipes and menus, receipts, and social media. Sorting is done automatically Through Google Photos, you can delete photos from albums one by one if you see something that doesn’t fit. You can also add missing ones from the ⋮ menu of any photo and Add to documents.
These automatic albums have the advantage of being able to find all the photos in your notes at a glance, Configure to auto-archive after 30 dayshelps you free up space in Google Photos by deleting photos that have expired. This is disabled by default.
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