Looking for a bit of advice because I feel like I’m missing something obvious.
Over the last few weeks I’ve finally consolidated my photo library and got everything into OneDrive. I’ve now got two folders:
Photos
Videos
Between them there’s around 3000 files in total. The files go back years and are a mix of family photos, holidays, screenshots, random phone pictures etc.
I’ve been trying to use AI to help me organise everything properly.
Things like:
- Finding duplicates and near-duplicates
- Identifying people
- Grouping photos from the same trip or event
- Creating folders/albums automatically
- Tagging photos so they’re searchable
- Picking out the best photos and obvious rubbish
- Suggesting a sensible folder structure
I initially thought ChatGPT might be able to help, but I’ve quickly hit a wall because I couldn’t work out a practical way to give it access to thousands of files sitting in OneDrive. I tried to connect it to OneDrive and just kept getting an error.
This is where I start getting lost. I keep seeing people talk about agents, MCPs, local models and automation workflows. I’ve done a bit of reading, but if I’m honest I don’t really understand how those pieces fit together or how I’d actually use them myself. I have a rough idea what an MCP is, but nowhere near enough knowledge to build anything from scratch.
I’m reasonably technical, but I’m not a developer. I’m happy to learn and tinker, but I’d prefer something a beginner could realistically get running without spending weeks building infrastructure.
My setup is:
Windows laptop
i7-10750H
32GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro P620
Everything stored in OneDrive
Ideally I’d like to keep costs as close to zero as possible. I have a ChatGPT plus subscription.
If this was your photo library, what would you actually do in 2026? Is there a beginner-friendly AI workflow for this, or am I looking at completely the wrong type of tool?
And if the answer is “don’t use an agent for this, use something else”, I’m completely open to that too.
Any advice appreciated.
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