Organise photos by date

I organise my photos by grouping them in a directory, where the directory takes on the name “created_date title” (e.g. 2016-05-16 Birthday Party). As it became tedious to create a directory and manually group photo sets, I wrote a Ruby script to assist with the heavy lifting. After that, it’s just a matter of providing a title to each created directory.

require 'exifr'
require 'fileutils'

Dir['*.jpg'].each do |file|
  date = EXIFR::JPEG.new(file).date_time
  if date
    folder = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
    FileUtils.mkdir_p(folder) unless File.directory?(folder)
    FileUtils.mv(file, folder)
  end
end

Note: you will first need to run gem install exifr to install dependencies.