Where's that photo of ours - the one from the summer market?
The photo exists somewhere - you remember taking it - but the filename is a string of numbers and it's buried under a year of later uploads. Scrolling to find it wastes the ten minutes you had.
Search by what it is, not what it's called
Your library holds a record card for every photo: a title, tags, who's in it, where it came from. Ask your assistant to search by any of those and it reads the cards rather than guessing from filenames - "the one from the summer market" is enough if the card says so.
Then see exactly where it's placed
Open the photo's card in your library and the "Where it's used" section lists every page - on every one of your sites - that currently has it placed. That list is kept honest by a regular check of the pages themselves, not by memory, so a photo you removed months ago drops off the list and one you placed yesterday shows up. If a photo isn't on the list, it isn't currently on any of your pages, whatever you might remember.
One honest limit: this only sees a photo referenced directly in a page - a photo used purely as a background image inside your site's styling, rather than placed on a page, won't show up here. That's rare in practice; most photos on a bernard site are placed the ordinary way. See Help me choose the best photo for comparing what's currently in place against alternatives.
The prompt
“Find the photo of [what it shows, or roughly when it was taken] - search my library by title or tag, then open it and show me where it's currently used.”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- How do I find an old photo without scrolling back through everything?
- Describe it - what it shows, a tag you might have used, roughly when it was taken - and your assistant searches your library's record cards rather than guessing from filenames. Nothing changes on your site just from looking; only a change you approve does that.
- Can I see every page a photo appears on?
- Yes - open the photo in your library and its "Where it's used" list shows every page and site it's currently placed on. It's kept in step by a regular check of your actual pages, so it reflects what's live now, not what you remember placing months ago.
- What if the same photo got uploaded twice under different names?
- Search by tag or by what's in the shot rather than a filename you might not remember, and both copies turn up. Titling and tagging photos as you go is what makes this reliable.