Browse semantic photo-search results in chronological order
At a glance
An Immich user worked around relevance-sorted AI search by putting the selected results into an album and browsing that album by date. This workflow is listed under Photos, Personal Archives, Search.
- Agents / tools
- Immich, CLIP smart search
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What they did
1) Start with an Immich photo library whose smart-search indexing is available, and an account allowed to create an album. Choose a scene or activity to retrieve, such as beach or hiking photos. 2) Run the semantic search for that term. 3) In the search results, use Select All or Ctrl+A to select the returned photos, then choose Add to album. 4) Open the destination album to browse the selected photographs in chronological order, as in the regular photo view. 5) Check which images actually entered the album before treating it as a complete event collection; the workaround changes how the selected results are browsed, not what the semantic model retrieved.
How it went
JakeTheRabbit reported this working sequence in the discussion on February 9, 2026.
Worth knowing
A reply questions whether only the first 100 results are added. The thread does not establish that Select All captures every match.
