Flickr Set Manager auto-generates useful sets

Posted on: June 7, 2008

Did you know there's a web tool that can take your X most interesting Flickr photos and make a set of them, right inside your account? (You need to grant it permission). It's called Flickr Set Manager — not exactly a specific name for the functions it performs. It can also come up with random batches of stuff, narrow down by tags, and other criteria.

I had no idea you could do this until I spotted it on Miyaoka Hitchcock's photostream. Apparently, it can also auto-refresh the generated sets about once a day. It's very plain and simple to setup. Here's some of my "100 Most Interesting":

A world who loves herselfCapture the momentThe Evilution of CommunicationRe-SourceTorley on Piano - awesomelicious art by Wynter BrackenTree of Second Life
An experiment in visual kineticsSculpted_FruitThe wonders of Second Life - on a special episode of SLosmosVirtual Romance, True LoveLots of organic-icity hereGraphic Novel City
Sickest CityClassic beautyYou may have cried, but the sun never went away!Second Life: For when you're too tired to drag a chair into the ocean.Bubble TroubleChance for romance
Second Life: For all your WTF moments.Want to TURN OFF the typing animation and soundUltranatural (MOD)All I really need to know I learned from Philip K. DickBellesFor all your fantasy CG art needs ;)

If that sounds useful to you, give it a spin and let me know what you think.

5 Responses to “Flickr Set Manager auto-generates useful sets”

  1. Mimzy Runningbear Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 1:29 PM PDT

    Great Info, I am brand new to Flickr and am anxious to learn anything and everything I can… seems your blog topics are so in tuned with my activities.. its a lot like did the egg or chicken come first? Cheers, Mimzy

  2. Lady Banana Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 1:40 PM PDT

    Been using this for a while, I also use it for my least interesting photos which is quite fun.. :)

  3. Torley Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 7:45 AM PDT

    @Mimzy: I'm just happy you found me.

    @Lady: Maybe it's a good way to get those "least interesting" elevated!

  4. Azaiya Aeon Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 AM PDT

    Neat! Torley, may I ask how you got those thumbnails into your post? I hope you didn't add them one by one. I'm looking for an easy way to add a bunch of flickr photos to my SL blog. Flick only lets you do one at a time with their blog feature. Maybe you know of some wizardry that I don't?

  5. Torley Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 7:51 AM PDT

    @Azaiya: Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I did it by selecting, and copying and pasting all those thumbnails from a set page. Easy to do in Firefox 3 and paste them into Windows Live Writer.

    It was just old-fashioned select copy-and-paste!

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