So, with Windows essentials gone (yes, I know, that happened in 2012 . . .), I'm looking to replace the various utilities it has. One of them is the photo viewer, which also had some ability to manage your photos.
Unfortunately, the photo viewer that comes with Windows 10 is a pure viewer only - you can't tag/categorize your photos or move them between folders, like I could with the Photo Gallery app that came with Essentials. Not a replacement. I'm also looking into more advanced management and batch editing of photos, so I need something a bit more powerful anyways.
So I've settled on XnView MP as my replacement.
In any case, there's a feature that Photo Gallery has that I haven't seen in XnView: You can browse your photos in a hierarchy by date taken (year / month / day). It's a very useful feature, as honestly if I don't know anything else about a photo I'm looking for, I usually know when it's taken.
I can (and probably will) use categories or folders to accomplish the same thing, but in my opinion it's a feature worth adding.
Automatic date categories
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