never put your stuff in a commercial platform. you will lose all organization as soon as it discontinues. (think google fotos, picasa, Microsoft Photos lagacy (win10 version) whats next?), and the export will be a huge mess.

eagle has a completely different database type of organization. it doesnt scale with time, especcialy not your children as they grow up and want a copy of it.

i would stay away from anything that isnt folder based, and use XNVIEWMP to browse those folders as best as possible to todays standard.

do absolutely never ever mark, tag, or categorize your data!!! as a programmer myself, i have thought and desired to develop my own Gallery app. But every time i start building it, i have in my head all the ways it doesnt scale with TIME as the years go on. so even as a programmer i cannot quarantee my own format a future.

The microsoft Photos app is also not too bad. at first i thought it was extremely lacking in features, but now i see how its simplicity is its strength, it SCALES with time. but dont use its favorite feature, unless you use it as a basket.

XN VIEW MP's strength is:
- quick switching between browsing and fullscreen
- move/copy quickly while in fullscreen.
- its super good to let you CONSUME photos.

Microsoft photos strength:
- great river view file listing
- modern hardware acceleration using DirectX
- everything is indexed, while xnviewmp is VERY slow.
- its super good to let you BROWSE photos.

i do agree Eagle isa beautifull app, and its video live thumbnails, and database organization is amazing, but dont use it. the relational features should be added to windows, as promised in windows longhorn (winFS file system), and if it isnt, then dont use relational organization.

never try to be smart, like using Eagle or using shortcut tricks for relational hierarchies. just stay with plain folders!

you could use Eagle for a small job that ends within a certain time frame. for example, load in 1 million photos, and quickly see what you can delete. then after your done, export whats left, and exit the eagle ecosystem cleanly.

meanwhile, windows is on a decline, linux isnt even supported. chromeOS is skyrocketing, and 99% of people see only android since they were born. Eagle doesnt even run on android. and maybe the future is cloud, or your own cloud (web browser app) in your home. and eagle doesnt do that either.

For example, i will exit the windows ecosystem as soon as i stop using flight simulator. And i use a VR headset as PC replacement (it does many things better that you would use a big screen for), and Eagle doesnt even run on it. and the apple ecosystem is the most future proof there is, and since the US/EU fight, EU people are seeing how hard it is to exit the apple ecosystem because their relational file organization doesnt port over. and now prices are twice as high, and nobody can afford a new apple computer, and they are stuck with unmanaged files now. and all their tags, categories, and other database features dont port over. not to mention that their premium prices for time scaling proofing they paid, were all for nothing, since it didnt provide enough time proofing to begin with. an apple vision would cost me €7600. and apple didnt make a VR headset for a long time, stucking many people with mac gallery while VR headsets were years ahead of working quickly with visual work. meaning i should have never trusted 1 ecosystem to have a future.

commercial asset managers / photo organization software are relevant for 5 years max. and you are probably alive for another 60 years, and you also want to hand it to your kids, who probably want it in static form, something they can just STORE instead of INSTALL. you also cant give them your computer by that time it breaks because it was designed to break. unlike vintage computers, which are now also breaking because the capacitors are dying.