Photo Albums and Collections

Photo albums collect image and video entries under one timeline entry. In the code and some older messages, albums are also called collections.

Albums appear in the timeline as entries with a row of image and video thumbnails.

Where Albums Appear

Albums appear:

• As a timeline card with several thumbnails.
• As a calendar entry on the album date.
• In the overlay as a thumbnail grid.

Album items keep their own image or video previews, but the album itself has one title, date, caption, and set of tags.

Creating an Album

You can create albums in three ways:

• Choose Photo album in the add entry overlay.
• Use Import Image Collections from the main menu import menu.
• Add image/video files to an existing image or video entry and convert it into a collection.

Viewing Album Items

Open an album in the overlay and select a thumbnail to view that item.

When an item was opened from the album:

• Use left/right overlay arrows to move within the album.
• Press Escape to return to the parent album.
• Video items show a video marker in the album grid.

Editing an Album

In edit mode you can:

• Change the album title.
• Change the album date.
• Change the caption.
• Add or remove tags.
• Remove individual items.
• Drag items to reorder them.
• Add more image/video files.

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Moving Entries Into Albums

Use Add To Collection from the overlay, or Move to Collection from the list context menu.

You can:

• Create a new collection and move the current entry into it.
• Choose an existing collection.

After the move, Lifebook opens the destination collection.

Moving an Album Into Another Album

When you move one album into another, Lifebook transfers the source album's items into the target album and removes the now-empty source album.

Removing Album Items

In album edit mode, hover an item and use the remove button.

If an album becomes empty, Lifebook can ask whether the empty collection should be removed.

Importing Image Collections

The import menu can scan folders and import subfolders that contain supported image or video files as albums.

An import is skipped when:

• The folder has already been imported.
• The folder has no supported image or video files.
• The folder is hidden.
• The folder structure is not a valid collection folder.

Large collection imports show a confirmation message and progress in the status bar.