Sort photos by posting date

TidBITS Talk
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apple’s photo app sorts photos by the date metadata assigned by the camera. in most cases, this is perfectly reasonable. but i’m an unreasonable user. i pull photos out of my library in arbitrary order to edit then post at my website. i’d like a smart album or such that would allow me to set the posting date on a photo and sort on that.

anyone know of an app or plugin or whatever that would do that?

i’m currently using a text string “posted [date]” which is sadly very error prone given i’m not terribly reliable or consistent. a better solution would be wonderful.

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Given that exporting isn’t an action that generates image metadata, I think your only option is to give exported images a dated name, as you’re already doing. I guess I could imagine the possibility of dropping the exported image on a Shortcut or AppleScript app that would find that image in the library and automatically assign the dated name. But you’d need to work with a chatbot to figure out how to write such a thing, if it’s even possible.