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Chapters
Chapters are albums you build by hand by defining a start and end date. All items whose capture date falls within those dates will be included in the Chapter. An item can belong to any number of chapters at the same time.
Examples:
- Senior Year of College: August 30, 2004 → May 30, 2005
- College: August 30, 2000 → May 30, 2005
- Honeymoon: October 15, 2006 → October 22, 2006
- SF Apartment: November 1, 2007 → December 1, 2010
- Kid Kindergarten: August 15, 2019 → June 1, 2020
- Seattle Road Trip: September 1, 2024 → September 8, 2024
Creating a chapter
Choose File → New Chapter…. Enter a name and start and end dates, then click Save.
You can optionally include people who played important roles in that Chapter. Future versions of Iris will make use of this data in upcoming features.
The new chapter will appear immediately in the Chapters section of the sidebar.
Items whose capture date fall within a Chapter will automatically be included.
Editing or deleting a chapter
Right‑click the chapter in the sidebar:
- Edit Chapter… — change the name or description.
- Delete — remove the chapter. Items inside it stay in your library; they just lose their chapter membership.
Browsing a chapter
Click the chapter in the sidebar to see its items in the content area. The same view modes apply — Grid, List, Map — and the same sort order options.
Use Map view to see the geographic shape of a chapter (great for trips and travel).
How chapters interact with everything else
- An item can be in any number of chapters.
- Chapters are independent from dates, people, and places — adding to a chapter doesn't change anything else.
- The Inspector's Summary tab always shows every chapter the current item belongs to, so you can see at a glance "this photo is in 'Yosemite 2023' and 'Summer 2023'"