Tag based search file organizer

[teal kelp]

Have you ever wanted Danbooru, but offline, for files in your computer? Well, I made that. I'm calling it Sievedex, for now. Available for Linux only.

It includes:

• A file browser which will display file thumbnails matching the tags you input on the filter pattern.
• A file viewer which will display the full version of the selected thumbnail's file. (currently only works for images)
• The tag filter input has auto-completion.
• It groups tags by "family" and allows you to change the colour that represents each family.
• The browser results are paged so you don't have to deal with long loading times.
• It scans files only when you want it to, so you don't have to deal with unexpected loading times.
• The database is made of a few plaintext CFG files, so you can fudge with it manually if you want to. It's my preferred way to write descriptions for the tags and make tag synonym associations.

I'm polling people to give me ideas for a better name for this app and maybe suggest a logo.
After I think it's bug free enough, I will release the app here.

Future Features:

• Tag and browser sorting options
• Accordion menu for tags, so you can quickly find what tags you are looking for by family.
• Allow you to select which folders to scan for files. Currently all files must be in a set folder.
• Ability to load and preview more file types (Probably audio, text and comic book formats)
• Generate thumbnails for video. Will require that you have FFMpeg installed. Currently you'd have to do it yourself, manually.
• A dedicated method for editing tag information. So you don't have to find the database files.
• A proper database format, if people want that bad enough.

What I can't do:

• Video preview. Unless you want to convert all your video files to OGV Theora. It's a Godot limitation.

[teal kelp]

I'm open to discussion about the usability features. Currently those features include:

• Pressing the middle mouse button on a thumbnail will add or remove the "favourite" tag to it (indicated by a yellow star), or it will send the file to the computer's trash bin.
• Pressing the left mouse button selects the thumbnail, as you'd expect.
• Pressing the right mouse button selects the thumbnail and switches to the selection viewer.
• You may open the file of the selected thumbnail with an external application. The only way to view videos.
• The Browser view displays all the tags of all the matched files.
• The Selection view only displays tags of the selected file.
• You can switch the tabs with F1 and F2 keys, but also side buttons of the mouse, if you have that.
• Thumbnails can be sized between 128 and 256 pixels wide. (the thumbnails are square, so the height is the same)
• Pictures can be zoomed and will zoom to fit the app window when selected. You have buttons to switch between fitting zoom or full resolution.
• Hovering tags with the mouse on the Browser view, will display the number of files with that tag, the name of the tag family and a description.
• In Selection view, you can delete multiple tags at the same time from a file.
• In Selection view, you can change the family of multiple tags at the same time.
• Tags in the "META" family can't be edited.

The filter input rules:

• There is a synonym system for tags, where if you type certain words in the filter, it will replace them with the registered synonyms. Only these synonyms should be registered to files.
• Typing a plain tag in the filter will match any file containing that tag.
• Typing a tag with suffix "-" will reject any matches with that tag.
• Typing a tag with suffix "+" will ignore rejection of matches that include that tag.
• Typing a bunch of tags with suffix "&" will only accept files which have all those tags.

[teal kelp]

This is the current look of the application. I don't think I will change it much away from this until release. I also renamed it to "Gogetter".

This is the help file where you can find all the features listed.

There are still a few bugs to sort out an I need to enable thumbnail sorting.

[bright musk]

Mmm... i dont known if "Windows longhorn" has the "Tag-based" search in his WinFX architecture but ok, this look like these feature ❤️