Albums

Albums let you group photos into named collections. Smriti supports both manual albums (you create them) and suggested albums (Smriti detects trips and events automatically and offers them for your review).

Manual albums

Create an album from the Albums view, or directly from a Timeline selection:

1. Select one or more photos in any view.
2. Click Add to album in the action bar.
3. Pick an existing album or type a name to create a new one.

Albums support:

• Inline rename — click the title in the album header.
• Cover photo — right-click any photo in the album → Set as cover, or let Smriti pick automatically (landscape with faces scores higher).
• Reordering — drag photos within an album to change the order.
• Bulk remove — select photos, Remove from album in the action bar.

Removing a photo from an album doesn’t delete the photo — it stays in the Timeline.

Suggested albums

Smriti analyses your library for two kinds of clusters and proposes them as drafts you can accept, ignore, or dismiss:

• Trips — runs of photos taken away from your home city for at least a day. Photos must clear a few gates (duration, photo count, distance from home, rarity) before they’re suggested. Detected trips are titled something like “Trip to Tokyo · March 2019”.
• Events — bursts of activity within your home area: a birthday, a wedding, a concert. Detected events lean on photo density, duration, and face overlap with people you’ve already named.

Open the Albums view to see pending suggestions. Each card shows:

• A cover photo,
• The detected title,
• A photo count,
• Accept / Dismiss buttons.

Accept promotes the suggestion to a real album that you can edit like any manual one. Dismiss marks it as not-an-album so Smriti doesn’t re-suggest it the next time it scans.

Settings that affect suggestions

• Home city override in Settings tells trip detection where you live. By default Smriti infers home from the city where most of your photos are taken. Override when you’ve moved or the inference is wrong.
• Geocoding — trip detection needs your photos to have place names. If GPS data is present but place names are missing, run Settings → Fill in place names.

Album cover photo selection

When you don’t manually set a cover, Smriti picks one with a small heuristic: prefer landscape orientation, prefer photos with faces, break ties with recency. You can always override.

See also

• Memories — related “on this day” surfacing
• Map — pivot from a place to all photos there
• Settings → Map — home-city override