[Feature] Ability to hide albums from the timeline. #5158
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Yes I want this. I still want to back them up just excluded from the timeline. |
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The obvious solution is to use the archive feature. BUT... the problem with archive, in this use-case, is that they then get mixed in with all the archived items and you can't un-archive from within the album. Hmm... I think that might be the solution. Add the ability to unarchive archived items from within the album view. I feel like that might already be in the works? |
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Any ETA on this feature? Is this being / will this be worked on? |
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I would also want this feature. Archiving is not an ideal solution tbh. |
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Fully support this feature request |
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This is the one missing feature I desperately want. I have a lot of pictures I take around the house for various projects and maintenance stuff I have to do. A lot of it is pictures of model numbers, measurements, or whatnot. Just so I can easily look that stuff up later. And Immich lets me just instantly have a glance at those pictures anywhere, from any device. But its off-putting when family photos get interrupted by 3 shots of a microwave magnatron I need to replace, or an oddly shaped hole in the ceiling. |
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I second this feature. Would be really helpful. In my case I would host photos of other people. But I don't want them im my personal feed. |
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I would also really like this feature. It would really help with saving all my images to immich, as I do want to save screenshots etc., but I dont want them cluttering my main timeline, which is just for normal photos from my phone or camera |
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I have a workarround for this. It's a bit ugly but it works. Share your album by link, and allow upload. Open a private navigation window and upload photos to the album. You're not the owner of the pictures so you can view them in album view, but not in your timeline. |
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I could imagine that a per-album setting to hide the photos in the timeline would be helpful for everybody. A default setting could be defined in the user profile. This would cover: |
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My workaround for the "screenshots" use case:
the shared pictures are hidden by default from my main user's timeline, they can be accessed via "Sharing" menu in the sidebar. |
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I agree and I think this is an important feature to have separate from locked photos. I also want to be able to hide albums such as screenshots & downloads from the timeline view, yet still sync them automatically. |
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Fully support this feature request, too! And for me there is one other advantage: Archive function don't move the archived images into a separate folder in the library and can't be separated from the other images on the file system, if im using the templating feature. |
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Hi @alextran1502 first of all thank you so much for chiming in on this topic again! I really appreciate you being part of this discussion -- this thread felt already abandoned. I understand what you are saying, there is no single good solution and at this point, adding something like this opens unintended issues somewhere else. I will need to try the Workflows and maybe they will improve things. However, I similar slight reservations as many here. For example, being "action" based rather than "passive filter" based means things can be missed if a workflow won't run for some reason. Having all my pictures in the archive, just because I don't want to see them in the timeline sounds rigid as well. As @deadmeu asked, what are the side effects of this? Will me pictures remain fully associated with its albums etc? I would like to bring up again what I suggested a while ago in this thread: I think the core of the issue is the timeline instead of a timeline. To me, albums are specially curated selection of pictures belonging to a specific event or something "closed". For example "Family Holiday 2025", "Christmas 2024" etc etc. I believe the biggest obstacle is that immich was just not designed for it and implementing this would be a major overhaul. But may I ask, apart from labor resources, is there a good reason this wouldn't work? How I said it, it would be fully backwards compatible with everything as it is right now and add timelines without any of the issues we are discussing in this thread. |
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I would want to be happy with setting up "hiding WhatsApp images" from the timeline via archiving with workflows along with other albums. However, archiving sounds more of like marking pictures / videos as "I don't want it for now but I want to keep it just in case" and also with the workflow approach, what if I want to undo it and show the whole album in the timeline? |
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The workflow auto archive is not a great solution for me. I want to be able to see albums (memes, GIFs, receipts, screenshots, same as a few people in the thread), if they are in an archive folder they are not visible, and to my little ADHD brain things cease to exist when I can't see them. I also just imported all my photos from Google photos so there's huge swaths of memes and WhatsApp photos that were imported with the same date, so the timeline is flooded in several places. Could we not have like "hide from timeline" and "keep searchable" as a per image setting? |
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The discussion in this thread has long run its course. The decision was explained in #5158 (comment) and #5158 (comment), and every comment since is just devolving into complaints and personal attacks, so I will be locking this thread as well as any unsubstantiated attempts to open duplicates. |
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I would like to exclude some albums from showing up on the main timeline.
I have an album of random receipts. Another of store items i might wish to buy sometime. And a few others.
I want to keep these pictures and have access to them, but don't want to see them as i'm scrolling down memory lane.
Possibly a simple version of #2451 but without the complexity and privacy orientation.
Thanks!
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