You are 100% right about the photo’s losing their value due to the amount we take.
Back in the days we needed the photo’s to be developed and printed so we orginized them in photo books, it was expensive so you would keep the amount of photo’s relatively low. Also not all photo’s in the book were perfect - you worked with what you had. When we went digital, storage became the major bottleneck forcing us to orgenize them once in a while, as storage was still expensive we still printed books. Now with the cloud, i shoot and forget, when you storage is full I am ashamed to say I just upgrade the capability…
On habits:
I am still learning how to change habbits the hard way, been struggling with alcohol addiction and self harm for years. After a successful program in 2023-2024, I started a new program in the Q3 of 2025. While I can manage no alcohol as long as there is no grey area, I still get the cravings (for example when you bought it for a bday party and it is still around when people left..
I just placed it on a high shelf ever since, but on bad days it is whispering to me. The easiest way to deal with it is to give/trow it away, but I (/ the program I follow) believe(s) real bahaviour changes come making the hard choices yourself, reflecting on every time you were succesfull (yeah, the craving is there but I have handled that before) and growing your mental strenght step by step.
With self hard the principles work the same but is harder as the proces of doing this is way shorter than with alcohol (where you have to pick a drink, open it, pour it and drink it so you can take an other direction during the process).
While my examples are hopefully a little to extreme for most people (hope non of you will have to go through this), The core principles will work even better for less urgent behavior. What worked for me pretty well in 2023 to battle cravings was to learn more about “Urge Surfing”
Long story short, while it sounds temping I don’t think such an app would build sustainable change but mostly weakens the strenght of individuals to make the changes they want them selves.
RE: A Thoughtful Habit