**Exploring Mileo: A Powerful Image Management Tool**

In my recent experience with Mileo, I discovered a powerful image management tool that has revolutionized the way I organize and access my images. One of the most impressive features of Mileo is its ability to create filters based on various criteria such as camera, star rating, and more. This feature allows me to narrow down my search and find specific images that meet my requirements. For example, when I filter by camera, I can view all images taken with a specific brand or model, making it easy to find similar images.

**Filtering Images with Mileo**

One of the most useful features of Mileo is its filtering system. When I open an image in Mileo, I can see filters at the top that allow me to narrow down my search. For instance, if I filter by camera and select a specific brand or model, Mileo will display all images taken with that device. This feature is particularly useful when I want to find similar images or compare shots taken on different cameras. Additionally, Mileo allows me to create multiple filters, making it easy to find images that meet specific criteria.

**Camera Filters in Mileo**

Another feature of Mileo that I found fascinating was its camera filter system. When I go into my Leica folder and select the M10 monochrome images, I can see a list of serial numbers associated with each image. This feature is incredibly useful because it allows me to identify which images were taken on specific cameras at different times or locations. For example, if I hit one of the filters, I'll see only the images that I shot in Germany, while hitting another filter will show the images that I took when renting a Leica camera.

**Mileo's Cloud-Free Approach**

One of the most significant advantages of Mileo is its cloud-free approach. Unlike other image management tools like Adobe Lightroom or Apple Photos, which rely on cloud services to store and manage images, Mileo creates a network between devices rather than storing data in the cloud. This means that my images are stored locally on my device, providing full control over my data and ensuring that it remains secure.

**Mileo's Encryption and Backup Features**

Mileo also offers encryption and backup features that provide an additional layer of security for users. When using a backup service with Mileo, the tool will fully encrypt my images, protecting them from unauthorized access. This feature is particularly important for users who rely on cloud services to store their images, as it ensures that their data remains safe and secure.

**Free Version Available**

One of the most impressive features of Mileo is its free version, which offers a wide range of functionality without requiring a paid subscription. The free version allows me to access all of my images, filter them by various criteria, and use the camera filter system to identify specific shots taken on different cameras or locations. This makes it an excellent option for users who want to try out Mileo without committing to a paid plan.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, Mileo has revolutionized the way I manage my images. Its powerful filtering system, camera filters, and encryption features make it an essential tool for anyone looking to organize and access their images with ease. Whether you're a professional photographer or a casual user, Mileo's free version is definitely worth checking out. With its cloud-free approach, encryption, and backup features, Mileo provides a secure and reliable way to manage your images.

**Getting Started with Mileo**

If you're interested in trying out Mileo for yourself, I highly recommend visiting their website and exploring the platform. The technical data on their website is incredibly detailed, making it easy to figure out what Mileo can do and how to use it effectively. Additionally, Mileo's community support is excellent, with a range of resources available to help users get started and resolve any issues that may arise.

**Special Shout-out to Mileo**

I would like to extend a special thank you to Mileo for sponsoring this video. Their contribution has enabled me to showcase the full potential of their tool, and I'm grateful for their support. If you have any questions or feedback about Mileo, please don't hesitate to leave them in the comments below or visit their website for more information.

**Final Thoughts**

In conclusion, Mileo is a powerful image management tool that offers a range of features and functionality that make it an essential resource for anyone looking to organize and access their images. Its cloud-free approach, encryption, and backup features provide an additional layer of security and control over my data. Whether you're a professional photographer or a casual user, Mileo is definitely worth checking out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everyone in this video I've got something really exciting that I want to share with you guys this is an application that I've been using called mileo mileo is essentially a catalog application that is probably one of the best if not the most unique that I've seen to date I've actually been using myo for the last couple months the company reached out and said we would like to sponsor a video if you're interested and I said absolutely this is an application that has solved a big issue for me and I think it's something that most of you are going to find useful too so let's start at the beginning what is mileo mileo is a cataloging application and the thing that makes this different than photo editors that you've used so far you know most photo editors have some kind of catalog functionality For Better Or usually worse buil in and what makes mileo different is mileo allows you the ability to create a network across multiple devices so this could be multiple hard drives that are external it could be multiple computers it could even be your smartphone and your tablets and all that stuff and so one of the problems that I think we all have today that has been one of the greatest things about digital photography is the the convenience of it but it also makes keeping a catalog of all of your work pretty difficult to do chances are and I'd actually be willing to bet that most people who would be watching this do not have their catalog very well organized unless it's something that you've committed to for a number of years now and really gotten serious about keeping organized and keeping labeled and that stuff is not exactly fun to do it's very timec consuming and so we have been in big need for a long time for a cataloging application that just makes all that stuff much easier I give you an example I travel a lot and sometimes I bring a laptop with me and I'm taking images on the trip the images will go on the laptop because I want to be able to see them and edit them in the moment and then I have to remember when I get home they've got to go sync with the catalog here so you got to have a solution for that I've have images on my phones and on my tablets and I actually have two different phones because I have one for work and one for personal usage so I have different pictures on each one of those I have even seen friends of mine where somebody might borrow his wife's phone take a couple images and then later on down the line when he needs them for something he wants to use maybe they family pictures something like that can't find them because they're on a completely different device so mileo is actually something that can solve that by having this network ability to bring all those devices together so I'm going to show you how this works it is very cool so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to launch mileo here so right now I'm in a single image View and I just want to walk you through the interface and then I'll show you how you're going to bring all this together so if I have an image selected over on the right hand side of the screen you've got your inspector panel this is going to show me all the metadata that I have associated with the image it's going things like the camera that I used the lens I used the file format the date created so on so forth you're going to see that it's got space for keywords and when I bring images in here I actually can go in and keyword them but that's the part that's not all that fun but here's what gets really cool is that mileo has the ability to assign smart tags so this was an image that I brought into mileo I didn't do anything to it but bring it into the application and you're going to see down here smart tags and it knows that this is a mountain mountainous plant Sky trees and so what it's going to do is it's going to be able to identify things in your image and so when we get into this you're going to see how you can use those smart tags and how this is going to make finding images really easy it's one thing to have a massive catalog full of stuff it's another thing to be able to get to images quickly especially when you have a really big catalog of literally tens or hundreds of thousands of images so we're going to go back to the grid view here for a second I'm going to draw your attention over to the left hand side of the screen here and you're going to see our navigation menus here and I'm actually going to start at the bottom here under the dashboard icon and the reason I'm going to do this is this is going to show you kind of how mileo Works in terms of setting up a network between devices so if I click on devices you're going to see that we get a little list here and I can see that my iMac is the main device this is where this is kind of the central Hub of where Miley is going to live here and I also have my black iPhone over here and it is not connected so it's grayed out now the way this works is myo has an app that runs on your mobile device so what I'm going to do is go ahead and launch myo once I do you're going to see the green check mark light up and that means that these two devices are online and talking to one another mileo is really cool because what it's doing behind the scenes is it's connecting your devices across a network is it lets you decide what you want to keep on each device in terms of images so in mileo photos we're dealing with three different image formats so we've got Originals which is pretty self-explanatory it's the original image as it was brought in then we have Auto optimized Auto optimized images are really cool because they retain all of the original information in the raw file but it's a much smaller files so it's good enough for printing let's say a 5x7 but it's great for making edits and syncing these back up when you're on the Fly and if you want to get back to the originals then those edits will update accordingly and we also have previews and previews are a little more like a thumbnail image it's still pretty high quality but the size of the image if you're concerned about storage space is about 10 to 15 times smaller than the auto optimized image so there's a lot of flexibility that we've got here and of course you can always get back to your original images in a single click it is super easy so this is probably a good time to mention the different versions of my Leo there are so the main version of myo as I mentioned in the title this video is free and it offers a lot of power and a lot of flexibility so what the free version allows you to do is it allows you to pull in all of your hard drives all of your devices you can pull images in from your phone your tablets and it allows you to manage them all from a single computer so basically if I have the free plan I can manage everything from this computer there also is a paid version which allows for a lot more flexibility so mileo photos plus is the premium version it allows you to do all the things on the free version with the exception that you can actually manage your library from your phones and from your tablets you can even add additional computers onto this and so it gives you a lot of flexibility it also allows you to do things like you can enable automatic backups which is really important to do if you're serious about saving your work you can do things like sharing is going to be coming up soon in my Leo version 24 so you can take an album and you can actually share it with somebody and so there's a lot of reasons why upgrading is probably going to give you a lot of more power it's all going to come down to what type of photographer you are and what your needs are and how serious you are about your catalog but it is Worthing worth looking into that another thing that I'll mention is you do get 50% off of your first year if you choose to subscribe and I'll put that link below this video in the show description another thing that mileo does when you set this up and I'm going to show you in the finder here is when you set it up on your computer what it does is my Leo sets up a watch folder and you can customize this you can create more if you want so you're going to see over in my favorites here on the left hand side I see my mileo inbox so what happens is anytime I want to add images to my catalog this is a watch folder myo is constantly looking at that folder so what it's going to do is any images that you put into that folder it's going to automatically ingest and move into the catalog and so it's very cool makes adding images to your catalog really easy and there's also a Lightroom plugin it's a little beyond the scope of what I'm talking about here but it makes all this automated if you're used to working in a Lightroom catalog and so that's something worth checking out too you can get more information on Mia's website but I want to continue to show you the app so let's go back in all right so in the navigation I'm going to click on this first icon which is just going to give us our entire catalog and so while this is useful and I can just sit here and scroll through it I do want to point out how smooth this is and I won't mention software by name but one of the other big applications when you click on a folder it sits there and rebuilds previews and does a bunch of stuff behind the scenes and it drags and it takes forever and this is very Snappy as an interface it's very clean the code is very well written and this is an outstanding application from that perspective but anyway I'm in the catalog view here and I'm just kind of looking at everything so if I need an image that may be 10 years old be scrolling for a long time so let's look at some of the ways that we can actually pair this down and look for images in other ways so the first thing I'm going to do is go over to the navigation and click on this little icon of the person and this is going to allow me to view by people what's really cool is you can see that I already have some of these up if I'm looking for a photo of somebody specifically it's going to recognize faces in the images so here's Alexandra she's a friend of mine who is a dance choreographer uh I photographed one of her dance shows and I can bring it in and I can see there she is and it labeled her face in that so what's really cool is when I initially set this up I brought a bunch of images out of Lightroom and I used the sidecar files to do that with and it brought those in so it already found a bunch of these faces and had them set up for me so what's really cool about that is I didn't have to do it manually now as I continued to add images into mileo I might have to do it if there's some new people it doesn't recognize and there's a lot of images in here where it doesn't know who they are like all the stuff that came off my phone so it's a really easy way to go in and do this so if you want to tag people you can do this on an image by image basis which we're kind of set to do here but if I want to look at the catalog as a whole to make this a little bit easier I can go back over here to the dashboard and if I go to actions what I can do is there is a tab in here for tag faces I'm going to go ahead and select this and it's going to go through my images and it found me to start with well it doesn't know who this is it's making a guess that these are all Ted Forbes and what I can do is I could change the name up here at the Top If I wanted to and they are all me so and for better or worse and if I can go over here and I can say approve I can say reject ignore skip I'm going to go ahead and approve those and it's going to tag a whole bunch as me oh Ralph Gibson well let's go ahead and approve him and so you can continue to go through like this and any faces that it doesn't find you're going to see noted with the question mark on the side here so it makes it kind of interesting to work on makes it actually kind of fun to do which is rare with a cataloging application and it makes it really easy to find stuff later this is something that I've done in other software applications like Lightroom and the best way to do is just to chip away at it in fact when I did my catalog I chipped away at that for probably a year since they actually introduced that into the software this is a much better system for it and the other thing that I like is it's not super clunky in terms of software like it's not slow and clui and trying to find stuff once it's set up it runs really smooth so let's go ahead and go back out to our catalog and I'm going to show you the map view and the map view is really cool too because this enables me to use Geo tagging and GPS data from my images uh to put stuff on a map and you're probably going to have to do this manually with let's say a DSLR or a mirrorless camera if you don't have any GPS built in but you can see what it's got here if I kind of scroll out we'll go to a worldview and I can kind of Click around here and you're going to see that by area here like you know this is where I live down here there's 35 images here I have 110 from Los Angeles 206 from California over here so if I want to see all my images from California this would have been when I was there for the Apple uh keynote last year that's a really cool way to go look for images just by location data there's also ways you can go add location data if they're not in the images another way you could search for images is by using the calendar view and to get there you're going to click on the calendar and you're going to see that by date and by year we've got images and I can see here that February 8th here this was my trip to Marfa and I can see all the images I shot on that day which is actually a very cool way to search for images this is a way that most of us would think to search for images if you know the date but let's talk about some harder stuff where it's a little more difficult to find that specific image that you're looking for so let's talk about smart tags I mentioned these a minute ago when I had that shot from bamp that was up and it knew that it was in the mountains and it knew that there were trees in the image and so how do you get to those and how do you use those to your advantage well let me show you what we're going to do is go over to the Le hand side of the screen here and I'm going to go ahead and open up the sidebar and this gives me a lot of stuff that I can look for in here that gets be becomes much more granular so for instance if I want to I'm going go out let's look at the entire catalog here all right so here we go so I can go by rating label and flag we can go ahead and and just hit five star and so this is going to give me all of my pictures that have a five-star rating all right so let's go ahead and view these by smart tag so if I go over to by smart tag I'm going to expand this here and you're going to see that I have a bunch of stuff like I can look at plants I can look at things that are places I can look at things that are people I can look at the mountain shots I didn't have to do any of this I just set this up and then part of its process when mileo is setting up and bringing in a catalog of images it's going to go through and analyze these things and look at them for you so it's not always 100% perfect but you can actually adjust that also so for instance you're going to see this little gear icon here I'm going to go ahead and click that it's going to bring up detect mountain and the AI sensitivity it's by default and I can make more matches which is going to be less accurate or I can bring it back to fewer rches fewer matches which is more accurate so you can kind of cater this to taste what I have found that yeah sure it's not exactly perfect this is something that I would expect would improve especially now that we're in the age of AI and this is something that is being worked on but it's enough for me and it's close enough for me now to where I can get stuff cuz I've already Whitted an entire catalog of images into down into something that's actually doable here so I can usually find things that way so this is a really cool way to go another thing that I want to show you is that each time I put one of these on here it creates a filter so at the top it says filters mountain and star rating equals five so that's something to keep in mind because I'm narrowing it down you can have multiple filters up here so if I want to see all of my images that contain mountains that don't necessarily have star ratings I can go ahead and deselect or get rid of that the five star start rating and it'll give me more selections here or more options uh so it's a way of whittling down your images and finding things that are going to work just for you so I'm going to go ahead and select by camera and when I open that up you're going to see that it does it by brand here so if I go into my hosel blood folder I can view all of my images that were taken on a Hos blot x1d for instance and so it's just going to give me all those images I can just show images that were done on an x1d Mark to or I can go into my x2d images and look that way another thing that's very cool I'm going to show you this if I go into my Leica folder and this is something that I have not seen in other applications which is very cool so if I go to my M10 monochrome images here and I select that so it's going to give me the serial numbers because I've actually shot images on three different cameras there were two different times I had loners from Leica and then I had my own so that's another way if you know which serial number it is that you can actually separate your images out which is very cool so for instance if I hit this one these are just the ones that I used when I was in Germany and hit this one and these are some that I did here when I rented one and then here's the one that I have and there's a lot more images here so this is a very cool way of being able to drill down and just see things by camera something that's actually very useful to me because generally speaking I do remember what camera I shot something on so all these ways to find things that are really cool so a couple things to point out about mileo so first of all mileo and this is important it's not actually a cloud service so if you think of something like Adobe Lightroom which has the cloud component or you think of Apple photos or Google photos those are things that will upload your image into the cloud what mileo does is it actually creates a network between devices so you're not going to be using the cloud to do that now if you do want to use the cloud there are capabilities and this is actually very smart to do there are a number of cloud services mainly backups that mileo is compatible with and I would recommend if you're going to make this your main thing that you do get a backup service and so that's fully automated and you don't have to think about it the other thing that's cool is mileo will fully encrypt your images when you're using a backup service so you don't have to worry about people being able able to open your images and see what you've got that actually is a big concern and I know people personally who have problems with cloud services for images because they just don't know how their data is being used so this is a really good alternative if you fall into that category another thing that you should know about mileo is there is a free version that works right out of the box it's actually very cool and that right there is enough reason why I think everybody probably should go download this and check this out there is a paid subscription version and the difference is is depending on if you want to connect devices all together and create that network but if you just have all of your images on one machine and you want to work with it like that you can use the free version and it's pretty awesome I recommend that you guys go check this out for yourself I'm going to put a link in the show description so uh please head over and uh see what mileo can do for you I'm going give a special shout out and thanks to mileo for sponsoring this video if you guys have any questions leave them below or even better over on Milo's website this is another thing that's really impressive all of the technical data is very detailed on there and it's one of the easier websites to go figure out what it is that you're looking for and get help with and I just think it's really well done so anyway I will see you guys in the next video Until then laterwelcome back everyone in this video I've got something really exciting that I want to share with you guys this is an application that I've been using called mileo mileo is essentially a catalog application that is probably one of the best if not the most unique that I've seen to date I've actually been using myo for the last couple months the company reached out and said we would like to sponsor a video if you're interested and I said absolutely this is an application that has solved a big issue for me and I think it's something that most of you are going to find useful too so let's start at the beginning what is mileo mileo is a cataloging application and the thing that makes this different than photo editors that you've used so far you know most photo editors have some kind of catalog functionality For Better Or usually worse buil in and what makes mileo different is mileo allows you the ability to create a network across multiple devices so this could be multiple hard drives that are external it could be multiple computers it could even be your smartphone and your tablets and all that stuff and so one of the problems that I think we all have today that has been one of the greatest things about digital photography is the the convenience of it but it also makes keeping a catalog of all of your work pretty difficult to do chances are and I'd actually be willing to bet that most people who would be watching this do not have their catalog very well organized unless it's something that you've committed to for a number of years now and really gotten serious about keeping organized and keeping labeled and that stuff is not exactly fun to do it's very timec consuming and so we have been in big need for a long time for a cataloging application that just makes all that stuff much easier I give you an example I travel a lot and sometimes I bring a laptop with me and I'm taking images on the trip the images will go on the laptop because I want to be able to see them and edit them in the moment and then I have to remember when I get home they've got to go sync with the catalog here so you got to have a solution for that I've have images on my phones and on my tablets and I actually have two different phones because I have one for work and one for personal usage so I have different pictures on each one of those I have even seen friends of mine where somebody might borrow his wife's phone take a couple images and then later on down the line when he needs them for something he wants to use maybe they family pictures something like that can't find them because they're on a completely different device so mileo is actually something that can solve that by having this network ability to bring all those devices together so I'm going to show you how this works it is very cool so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to launch mileo here so right now I'm in a single image View and I just want to walk you through the interface and then I'll show you how you're going to bring all this together so if I have an image selected over on the right hand side of the screen you've got your inspector panel this is going to show me all the metadata that I have associated with the image it's going things like the camera that I used the lens I used the file format the date created so on so forth you're going to see that it's got space for keywords and when I bring images in here I actually can go in and keyword them but that's the part that's not all that fun but here's what gets really cool is that mileo has the ability to assign smart tags so this was an image that I brought into mileo I didn't do anything to it but bring it into the application and you're going to see down here smart tags and it knows that this is a mountain mountainous plant Sky trees and so what it's going to do is it's going to be able to identify things in your image and so when we get into this you're going to see how you can use those smart tags and how this is going to make finding images really easy it's one thing to have a massive catalog full of stuff it's another thing to be able to get to images quickly especially when you have a really big catalog of literally tens or hundreds of thousands of images so we're going to go back to the grid view here for a second I'm going to draw your attention over to the left hand side of the screen here and you're going to see our navigation menus here and I'm actually going to start at the bottom here under the dashboard icon and the reason I'm going to do this is this is going to show you kind of how mileo Works in terms of setting up a network between devices so if I click on devices you're going to see that we get a little list here and I can see that my iMac is the main device this is where this is kind of the central Hub of where Miley is going to live here and I also have my black iPhone over here and it is not connected so it's grayed out now the way this works is myo has an app that runs on your mobile device so what I'm going to do is go ahead and launch myo once I do you're going to see the green check mark light up and that means that these two devices are online and talking to one another mileo is really cool because what it's doing behind the scenes is it's connecting your devices across a network is it lets you decide what you want to keep on each device in terms of images so in mileo photos we're dealing with three different image formats so we've got Originals which is pretty self-explanatory it's the original image as it was brought in then we have Auto optimized Auto optimized images are really cool because they retain all of the original information in the raw file but it's a much smaller files so it's good enough for printing let's say a 5x7 but it's great for making edits and syncing these back up when you're on the Fly and if you want to get back to the originals then those edits will update accordingly and we also have previews and previews are a little more like a thumbnail image it's still pretty high quality but the size of the image if you're concerned about storage space is about 10 to 15 times smaller than the auto optimized image so there's a lot of flexibility that we've got here and of course you can always get back to your original images in a single click it is super easy so this is probably a good time to mention the different versions of my Leo there are so the main version of myo as I mentioned in the title this video is free and it offers a lot of power and a lot of flexibility so what the free version allows you to do is it allows you to pull in all of your hard drives all of your devices you can pull images in from your phone your tablets and it allows you to manage them all from a single computer so basically if I have the free plan I can manage everything from this computer there also is a paid version which allows for a lot more flexibility so mileo photos plus is the premium version it allows you to do all the things on the free version with the exception that you can actually manage your library from your phones and from your tablets you can even add additional computers onto this and so it gives you a lot of flexibility it also allows you to do things like you can enable automatic backups which is really important to do if you're serious about saving your work you can do things like sharing is going to be coming up soon in my Leo version 24 so you can take an album and you can actually share it with somebody and so there's a lot of reasons why upgrading is probably going to give you a lot of more power it's all going to come down to what type of photographer you are and what your needs are and how serious you are about your catalog but it is Worthing worth looking into that another thing that I'll mention is you do get 50% off of your first year if you choose to subscribe and I'll put that link below this video in the show description another thing that mileo does when you set this up and I'm going to show you in the finder here is when you set it up on your computer what it does is my Leo sets up a watch folder and you can customize this you can create more if you want so you're going to see over in my favorites here on the left hand side I see my mileo inbox so what happens is anytime I want to add images to my catalog this is a watch folder myo is constantly looking at that folder so what it's going to do is any images that you put into that folder it's going to automatically ingest and move into the catalog and so it's very cool makes adding images to your catalog really easy and there's also a Lightroom plugin it's a little beyond the scope of what I'm talking about here but it makes all this automated if you're used to working in a Lightroom catalog and so that's something worth checking out too you can get more information on Mia's website but I want to continue to show you the app so let's go back in all right so in the navigation I'm going to click on this first icon which is just going to give us our entire catalog and so while this is useful and I can just sit here and scroll through it I do want to point out how smooth this is and I won't mention software by name but one of the other big applications when you click on a folder it sits there and rebuilds previews and does a bunch of stuff behind the scenes and it drags and it takes forever and this is very Snappy as an interface it's very clean the code is very well written and this is an outstanding application from that perspective but anyway I'm in the catalog view here and I'm just kind of looking at everything so if I need an image that may be 10 years old be scrolling for a long time so let's look at some of the ways that we can actually pair this down and look for images in other ways so the first thing I'm going to do is go over to the navigation and click on this little icon of the person and this is going to allow me to view by people what's really cool is you can see that I already have some of these up if I'm looking for a photo of somebody specifically it's going to recognize faces in the images so here's Alexandra she's a friend of mine who is a dance choreographer uh I photographed one of her dance shows and I can bring it in and I can see there she is and it labeled her face in that so what's really cool is when I initially set this up I brought a bunch of images out of Lightroom and I used the sidecar files to do that with and it brought those in so it already found a bunch of these faces and had them set up for me so what's really cool about that is I didn't have to do it manually now as I continued to add images into mileo I might have to do it if there's some new people it doesn't recognize and there's a lot of images in here where it doesn't know who they are like all the stuff that came off my phone so it's a really easy way to go in and do this so if you want to tag people you can do this on an image by image basis which we're kind of set to do here but if I want to look at the catalog as a whole to make this a little bit easier I can go back over here to the dashboard and if I go to actions what I can do is there is a tab in here for tag faces I'm going to go ahead and select this and it's going to go through my images and it found me to start with well it doesn't know who this is it's making a guess that these are all Ted Forbes and what I can do is I could change the name up here at the Top If I wanted to and they are all me so and for better or worse and if I can go over here and I can say approve I can say reject ignore skip I'm going to go ahead and approve those and it's going to tag a whole bunch as me oh Ralph Gibson well let's go ahead and approve him and so you can continue to go through like this and any faces that it doesn't find you're going to see noted with the question mark on the side here so it makes it kind of interesting to work on makes it actually kind of fun to do which is rare with a cataloging application and it makes it really easy to find stuff later this is something that I've done in other software applications like Lightroom and the best way to do is just to chip away at it in fact when I did my catalog I chipped away at that for probably a year since they actually introduced that into the software this is a much better system for it and the other thing that I like is it's not super clunky in terms of software like it's not slow and clui and trying to find stuff once it's set up it runs really smooth so let's go ahead and go back out to our catalog and I'm going to show you the map view and the map view is really cool too because this enables me to use Geo tagging and GPS data from my images uh to put stuff on a map and you're probably going to have to do this manually with let's say a DSLR or a mirrorless camera if you don't have any GPS built in but you can see what it's got here if I kind of scroll out we'll go to a worldview and I can kind of Click around here and you're going to see that by area here like you know this is where I live down here there's 35 images here I have 110 from Los Angeles 206 from California over here so if I want to see all my images from California this would have been when I was there for the Apple uh keynote last year that's a really cool way to go look for images just by location data there's also ways you can go add location data if they're not in the images another way you could search for images is by using the calendar view and to get there you're going to click on the calendar and you're going to see that by date and by year we've got images and I can see here that February 8th here this was my trip to Marfa and I can see all the images I shot on that day which is actually a very cool way to search for images this is a way that most of us would think to search for images if you know the date but let's talk about some harder stuff where it's a little more difficult to find that specific image that you're looking for so let's talk about smart tags I mentioned these a minute ago when I had that shot from bamp that was up and it knew that it was in the mountains and it knew that there were trees in the image and so how do you get to those and how do you use those to your advantage well let me show you what we're going to do is go over to the Le hand side of the screen here and I'm going to go ahead and open up the sidebar and this gives me a lot of stuff that I can look for in here that gets be becomes much more granular so for instance if I want to I'm going go out let's look at the entire catalog here all right so here we go so I can go by rating label and flag we can go ahead and and just hit five star and so this is going to give me all of my pictures that have a five-star rating all right so let's go ahead and view these by smart tag so if I go over to by smart tag I'm going to expand this here and you're going to see that I have a bunch of stuff like I can look at plants I can look at things that are places I can look at things that are people I can look at the mountain shots I didn't have to do any of this I just set this up and then part of its process when mileo is setting up and bringing in a catalog of images it's going to go through and analyze these things and look at them for you so it's not always 100% perfect but you can actually adjust that also so for instance you're going to see this little gear icon here I'm going to go ahead and click that it's going to bring up detect mountain and the AI sensitivity it's by default and I can make more matches which is going to be less accurate or I can bring it back to fewer rches fewer matches which is more accurate so you can kind of cater this to taste what I have found that yeah sure it's not exactly perfect this is something that I would expect would improve especially now that we're in the age of AI and this is something that is being worked on but it's enough for me and it's close enough for me now to where I can get stuff cuz I've already Whitted an entire catalog of images into down into something that's actually doable here so I can usually find things that way so this is a really cool way to go another thing that I want to show you is that each time I put one of these on here it creates a filter so at the top it says filters mountain and star rating equals five so that's something to keep in mind because I'm narrowing it down you can have multiple filters up here so if I want to see all of my images that contain mountains that don't necessarily have star ratings I can go ahead and deselect or get rid of that the five star start rating and it'll give me more selections here or more options uh so it's a way of whittling down your images and finding things that are going to work just for you so I'm going to go ahead and select by camera and when I open that up you're going to see that it does it by brand here so if I go into my hosel blood folder I can view all of my images that were taken on a Hos blot x1d for instance and so it's just going to give me all those images I can just show images that were done on an x1d Mark to or I can go into my x2d images and look that way another thing that's very cool I'm going to show you this if I go into my Leica folder and this is something that I have not seen in other applications which is very cool so if I go to my M10 monochrome images here and I select that so it's going to give me the serial numbers because I've actually shot images on three different cameras there were two different times I had loners from Leica and then I had my own so that's another way if you know which serial number it is that you can actually separate your images out which is very cool so for instance if I hit this one these are just the ones that I used when I was in Germany and hit this one and these are some that I did here when I rented one and then here's the one that I have and there's a lot more images here so this is a very cool way of being able to drill down and just see things by camera something that's actually very useful to me because generally speaking I do remember what camera I shot something on so all these ways to find things that are really cool so a couple things to point out about mileo so first of all mileo and this is important it's not actually a cloud service so if you think of something like Adobe Lightroom which has the cloud component or you think of Apple photos or Google photos those are things that will upload your image into the cloud what mileo does is it actually creates a network between devices so you're not going to be using the cloud to do that now if you do want to use the cloud there are capabilities and this is actually very smart to do there are a number of cloud services mainly backups that mileo is compatible with and I would recommend if you're going to make this your main thing that you do get a backup service and so that's fully automated and you don't have to think about it the other thing that's cool is mileo will fully encrypt your images when you're using a backup service so you don't have to worry about people being able able to open your images and see what you've got that actually is a big concern and I know people personally who have problems with cloud services for images because they just don't know how their data is being used so this is a really good alternative if you fall into that category another thing that you should know about mileo is there is a free version that works right out of the box it's actually very cool and that right there is enough reason why I think everybody probably should go download this and check this out there is a paid subscription version and the difference is is depending on if you want to connect devices all together and create that network but if you just have all of your images on one machine and you want to work with it like that you can use the free version and it's pretty awesome I recommend that you guys go check this out for yourself I'm going to put a link in the show description so uh please head over and uh see what mileo can do for you I'm going give a special shout out and thanks to mileo for sponsoring this video if you guys have any questions leave them below or even better over on Milo's website this is another thing that's really impressive all of the technical data is very detailed on there and it's one of the easier websites to go figure out what it is that you're looking for and get help with and I just think it's really well done so anyway I will see you guys in the next video Until then later\n"