Photo trick.
I have several thousand photos. It's tough when I'm searching for something and all I have are dates.
So I began a time consuming task that I do about 15 minutes a day.
I bought a notebook and have categories (birds, purslane, bird houses, turtles, frogs etc) and I list the date under the heading, Example;
Turtles
5-11-05 painted canvas
7-14-07 painted wall EXPO
8-22-07 painted wood
0=7-24-11 painted rocks
This is becoming a life safer!
A pain...but a life safer