Most of us suffer from Digital Overload. With the latest figures suggesting that a whopping 1.8 billion photographs are uploaded through social media networks every day, it’s no surprise that trying to manage, organise and archive that sheer amount of visual content is at best, overwhelming.

Ask yourself: where are those photos you took on your baby’s first birthday? Are they in the same folder as your niece’s christening, the office Christmas party, the latest bath time or even your last holiday? As as the ability to snap and share all of the special moments in our lives becomes easier, we’ve all contracted some form of Digital Disorder, which threatens the well-being of our well-preserved, HD captured photo memories. But fear not, after examining all the best options to remedy the situation, here are five of the best ways to save and organise all your family photos.

1. Lifecake App

Once upon a time, parents archived their tiny tot’s first smile, wave, crawl and walk in baby books or homemade scrapbooks. Each time a new milestone was achieved, that book got thicker and thicker but with the advancement of technology, and growth of trigger-happy mums and dads, time to manage such a project becomes scarcer and the task unmanageable.

Enter the digital photo book app: Lifecake. Built specifically for parents, close family members who want to be kept in the loop and the granny and grandad who want to grandparent from a distance, Lifecake’s beautiful timeline is built around your baby’s birthday to allow you to keep a running tab on your child’s growth.

Free for Android and iOS devices, Lifecake allows its users to zoom onto any specific age in a matter of seconds, and compare the stages of your precious person’s upbringing. As all loved ones are automatically notified of new pictures and videos, no-one ever has to miss another special moment again.

In addition, the app also lets users create stunning HD photo books from the website and order photo packs, phone cases, posters, fridge magnets, and straight from the app.

2. Pinterest

The hugely popular archiving social network is widely used for a range of purposes, and saving your family photos is just one of them.

Using the upload feature, users can create pinboards for specific occasions or for certain family members, as well as control whether it will be viewed by all members of the public, or just privately amongst those who have access to a special link.

By adding tags to each pin, users can quickly search for any photo they’ve uploaded and organise every photo according to any topic or category of their choosing.

3. Google Photos

Offering unlimited free storage to all users with a Gmail account, Google Photos is a cloud-based programme that backs-up all your photos.

In addition to saving and organising all photos, through the system users can choose to combine image and video files to create home movies, or use a burst of similar photos to create quirky GIFs.

The best feature, however, is it’s facial recognition facility which allows users to search for all images of a particular person by clicking on their face in the search field.

So, if you want to share all the pictures of your little one being held by their auntie, just search for either one and create a dedicated album within seconds. What’s more, you can share the album with anyone by sending it to their email address.

4. Dropbox

The well-established cloud storage system has a huge fanbase thanks to it’s multi-purpose and cross platform solution. The one thing that Dropbox excels at is storage. Users can quickly back up and access all of their saved content from The Cloud.

After acquiring the web photo-service Snapjoy and the photo app Loom, Dropbox now offers users a photo specific tab, which charts every photo that’s been uploaded onto a time line. Users can use this to create albums and share them with friends and family via a web link.

The biggest drawback of the app, however, is that because it loads all images in full resolution, it can take a little while to open the file and display the photo.

 5. The Memory App

 Free to use for a multitude of different options, The Memory App is the ultimate digital photo album solution at your disposal. Safely and securely safeguard all your images so that you never have to lose another memory again.

Excelling as a personal organiser, users can automatically catalogue all images of their young child using personalised tags and chart the growth of their baby, and by creating unique labels from natural language, all content is categorised and organised automatically so that it is relatable for them specifically.

What’s more, pair the image storage feature with the note taking option so that in addition to leaving comments under each image, users can relive their special moments with voice notes recorded by themselves and their new baby. Thanks to it’s sophisticated search system, users never have to lose time frivolously searching for hours on end for specific photos or notes.

Choose to tag your photos as “baby Amy and her auntie”; “Amy’s first words” or even ”tantrum time” and look through all of the related images in chronological order. Download The Memory App today and start to save and organise your family photos!

Whether you love to cook or you just love to eat, the chances are that like most of us, you’ve hoarded heaps of recipes for delicious dishes over the years. Maybe it’s a cherished childhood cookbook, a favourite family secret, or one of the thousands of mouth-watering teasers plastered through your Facebook feed, we’ve all got our go-to gourmet grub that we want to keep hold of, but trying to save your favourite recipes can be a little tricky especially when they’re splattered across different sources.

Scribbling them down on various notes of papers and shoving them into the kitchen drawer just isn’t cutting it anymore, so you need to find a better method of organising your favourite recipes so that when it comes to cooking that winner chicken dinner, you can quickly pull up your guide and get cooking. After all, have you ever wanted to dive into a new dish that you know you saved the recipe for but couldn’t remember where you saved it? Was it in that magazine you bought a month ago, or maybe it was in Gran’s cookbook?

Maybe you pinned it to a Pinterest board?

To help you get started, here are six easy ways you can save your favourite recipes.

1. Paprika App

Available on a plethora of platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, and even Kindle Fire, with Paprika users can clip favourite recipes from the web and save them into different folders or notebooks through an easy-to- use a drag-and- drop system.

What’s more, the clever food app even has a grocery list feature that will generate a shopping list for you and allow you to swipe away all the items you have so that you can keep track of all the ingredients that you still need to buy.

The only downside to Paprika is that it’s not a universal app, meaning that currently in order to use it across different platforms, you’ll need to purchase it for each device you want to use.

2. BigOven

Boasting a recipe library with over 250,000 global dishes, BigOven is a free-to- join app available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

To get the best use out of its features, BigOven offers a Pro membership scheme for its users which allows access to the recipe scanner: a digital device that captures photos of cookbooks, handwritten note cards, and printed-out recipes in order to add them to your personal collection. However, Pro only allows for 25 free scans, after which additional scans are charged per item so if you’re looking to scan a lot of items, it may be better to use the manual entry item facility instead.

3. ChefTap

Another free-to- use app created specifically for foodies, ChefTap allows users to clip recipes from around the web and edit them for your own taste. From blog posts to Pinterest boards, users can clip, categorise and catalogue any recipes they come across and save them for use later.

The best feature, however, is the application’s “kitchen view” option that automatically enlarges all instructions so that if you want to take your device into the kitchen with you, you can easily follow the cooking method step-by- step without having to squint. Leave that down to the onions.

4. Google Drive

Time to move on from cooking specific apps and look at what other solutions exist. Google Drive is one of these.

Essentially a free cloud-based storage system and office programme suite available to anyone with a Gmail account, through your Google Drive, users can copy and paste recipes from various sites into a Document and add their own notes and reference points.

What’s more, all documents can be instantly shared with anyone provided you have their email address so you’re not just limited to the resources at your disposal, ask your friends and family for the recipes for their signature meals and recreate them in your own kitchen.

And for the icing on the cake? Every recipe is searchable by either name or even ingredient!

5. Pinterest

What do most people do before they tuck into their meal? Why, take a felfie – that’s food selfie for anyone not in the know – of course! As human beings, we’re very visual creatures and playing into this is the hugely popular digital pin board application: Pinterest.

Catering for both seasoned and unprepared chefs, Pinterest allows users to archive all images from anywhere on the internet, and save the visual link onto your own personalised Pinboard, so anytime you come across an appetising item, pin the image and it will create a link back to the original article.

Add tags to each of your pinned items to make it easier to search for saved items, or create different Pinboards for each of your family members or meals of the day!

6. Save Your Favourite Recipes With The Memory App

The Memory App excels at two things: storage and search. Scan a recipe, add the appropriate tags, and, hey presto, you’ve got yourself an excellent digital recipe book.

The free and multi-use platform not only lets users scan, store and save their recipes, but as a note-taking app and personal organiser, users can catalogue text and images from anywhere on the web affording users the flexibility to type up or simply copy and paste their favourite online recipes.

What’s more, it’s innovative and intuitive search system automatically creates unique and personalised tags using natural speech and linguistic patterns to categorise, organise and catalogue items, so you can easily find your saved recipes within seconds.

Choose to tag your recipes as “cookbook”; “recipes I want to try”;”recipes I love”; “appetiser”; “lunch”; “dinner”, with the ingredients or even with the calorie count so that you’ve always got your cooking inspiration at your fingertips. Additionally, it means that next time you’re at the supermarket and see that salmon is on sale, you can quickly looking up salmon on my phone with “under 500 calories” and arm yourself with everything you need for a guilt free, gluttonous meal.

Download The Memory App today and start to save your favourite recipes!