Route AVIF thumbnail generation through the bundled FFmpeg path instead of the Rust image decoder, avoiding unsupported-format failures without requiring system dav1d dependencies.
Requeue existing AVIF jobs that previously failed with unsupported-format errors and feed generated JPEG derivatives to embedding/tagging preprocessing while leaving lightbox display on the original AVIF file.
Derive default implementations for captioner and tagger option enums, simplify sorting and progress multiple checks, and remove redundant iterator conversions.
- Custom multi-folder picker replaces the native OS dialog: browse the
filesystem in-app, stage multiple folders at once, and add them in one
shot. Virtualised list handles large directory trees without jank.
- Duplicate Finder group list is now virtualised, keeping the UI
responsive even with hundreds of duplicate groups.
- Settings panel reordered: General is now the first (default) section.
- Lightbox video playback toggles (autoplay / auto-mute) added to
General settings, wired to the store with ARIA switch roles.
- "Rebuild Semantic Index" maintenance action added to Settings.
- Folder picker QoL fixes: chevron tooltip, Unix breadcrumb root label,
and partial-failure staging panel cleanup.
- Fix chevron tooltip: was "Open folder" in both branches; now shows
"No subfolders" when the entry has no children (consistent with the
existing opacity-45 visual cue on the same chevron icon)
- Fix Unix breadcrumb root label: was always "Home" even for non-home
paths like /mnt/data — now labelled "/" which is always accurate
- Fix partial-failure staging: on a mixed add result, successfully-added
entries are now removed from the staging panel so only genuinely failed
folders remain for the user to retry (index-pairing is safe because the
backend returns results in input order via a preserved .map())
Replace native add-folder dialogs with an in-app folder picker that supports collecting folders from multiple locations before adding them together.
Add backend directory listing and batch add commands with duplicate skipping, plus store actions and a themed picker UI with a dedicated folders-to-add panel.
Drops and recreates the sqlite-vec tables at the current model dimension, then
re-queues every image for embedding. Fixes "dimension mismatch" search errors
that occur when the vector table was built for a different model/dimension (e.g.
after experimenting with 768-dim models against this 512-dim build).
The rebuild runs under the embedding worker's DB write lock and resets the job
queue inside a single transaction, so it can't interleave with an in-flight
embedding batch (per code review).
Reorder the Settings sections so General is the top and default section instead
of AI Workspace. Add two persisted settings under a new "Video playback" group:
- Autoplay in lightbox (default on)
- Start muted (default off)
VideoPlayer reads these when a video opens — autoplaying only when enabled and
starting muted when enabled, otherwise falling back to the session's last-used
mute state. Settings apply to the next opened video, not the current one.
The duplicate view rendered every group and every thumbnail at once — a 5,000-pair
result mounted ~10K <img> elements, making scroll lag heavily (same class of bug
as the old per-month Timeline). Virtualize the group list so only on-screen cards
mount; heights are measured dynamically since each group wraps a variable number
of copies.
Removes subtle-light .settings-modal overrides that targeted classes no component
on main applies (dead rules), keeping the Settings modal flat and themed via the
global accent variables.
These subtle-light overrides target classes (settings-modal, settings-nav-active,
settings-model-card) that no component on main applies, so the rules never took
effect. They also pulled the Settings modal toward a card look we don't want. The
accent-text readability is now handled globally by the theme's accent variables,
so the modal themes correctly (flat) without this block.
Coloured text/icons (warnings, errors, status) used pastel accent shades tuned
for dark UIs and washed out on the light theme — e.g. "Update check failed" in
Settings was near-invisible. Darken those accent variables in the subtle-light
theme while resetting them to the bright originals inside .media-dark-surface,
so light chrome reads clearly and on-photo overlays keep their signal colours.
Pastel accent shades (amber/red/rose/emerald/sky/violet/blue -200..-400) are
tuned for dark UIs and washed out on the light chrome — e.g. "Update check
failed" in the Settings updates row was near-invisible. Darken those accent
variables in the subtle-light theme so coloured text/icons stay readable, and
reset them to Tailwind's bright defaults inside .media-dark-surface so on-photo
overlays (ratings, failed badges, the lightbox region tool) keep their signal
colours. Remapping the variable rather than the utility also covers opacity
variants like text-amber-300/90.
Post-release quality-of-life work for 0.1.1:
- Timeline: right-edge year/month scrubber, full-library load so the scrubber
spans everything, and per-row virtualization so dense months scroll smoothly.
- Gallery grid row-virtualization; folder reordering (drag + keyboard) with
persisted custom order and A-Z/Z-A/Custom sort.
- Theme system (Phokus, Subtle Light, Conventional Dark) with an onboarding
theme picker, plus subtle-light parity fixes for the lightbox panel, media
overlays, duplicate finder, and window controls.
- Failed AI-tagging locate/filter from the background worker prompt.
- Perf: background media-updated batches no longer re-sort the whole image set.
- Video embedding jobs no longer churn through false failures before their
thumbnail exists.
- Tooling: changelog helper + notes.
JS regex has no \z anchor — it matched a literal 'z', so appending to the last
section under [Unreleased] silently failed and duplicated the heading. Use
$(?![\s\S]) to anchor to true end-of-input.
Holding Up/Down on a folder's drag handle fired a reorder_folders DB write per
keystroke. Update the local order immediately for responsiveness, but debounce
the persist (400ms) with cleanup on unmount.
In subtle-light, the lightbox dragged its whole surface (including the metadata
panel) dark via media-dark-surface, while conventional-dark themed the panel
normally. Scope the dark surface to the media canvas and re-light the panel by
remapping --color-* variables on a .lightbox-panel wrapper (Tailwind v4 resolves
every colour utility through these vars, so this re-themes the subtree —
including accents — with no !important). Mark gallery/duplicate media tiles as
media-dark-surface so their on-image overlays stay light-on-dark, and theme the
window restore icon via var(--color-gray-950) instead of a hardcoded hex.
replaceExistingImages re-sorted the entire loaded image array on every
media-updated event. Harmless for the ~200-item gallery window, but in Timeline
(which loads the whole library) it was an O(n log n) pass many times per second
during background indexing — severe lag, occasional crashes. Thumbnail/metadata
fills don't change list position (Timeline re-buckets by taken_at separately), so
replace records in place and skip the sort; return the same array reference when
nothing matched to avoid a wasted re-render.
Each month was a single virtual item that rendered all of its tiles, so
scrolling into a busy month mounted thousands of ImageTiles at once. Flatten
months into a fixed-height row list (header rows + tile rows of `cols` images),
mirroring the Gallery grid, so only on-screen rows render and thumbnails stream
in as you scroll. Active-month tracking and scrubber jump-to-month are remapped
to the flat row model.
Add a failed-tag discovery flow for background worker failures.
Changes:
- Add a Failed Tags toolbar filter that appears when tag failures exist.
- Add Locate buttons for failed tag tasks in the background worker prompt.
- Route Locate to the affected folder and filter the gallery to images with tagger errors.
- Fetch and display failed tag filenames/errors in the expanded worker details.
- Add a backend query and gallery filter flag for images with failed AI tagging.
- Improve subtle-light contrast for failed worker chips, filenames, and Locate/Retry buttons.
- Also slightly increases the title bar update indicator pulse size for better visibility.
Make the onboarding tour theme-aware across the app themes, add the first-run theme picker, and keep fake media previews on the dark media surface. Update light-mode secondary controls in onboarding, settings, dropdowns, toolbar controls, and duplicate actions so they no longer render as dark buttons on subtle-light.
Timeline:
- Add a right-edge scrubber (year labels + month dots) that jumps to any
period; runs in the same direction as the scrolled content
- Load the full filtered set in Timeline view so the scrubber spans the whole
library instead of just the first page
Gallery & UI:
- Virtualise the gallery grid
- Folder reordering in the sidebar (drag + persisted sort_order) and a themed
dropdown component
- Subtle Light theme contrast fixes for toggles, secondary buttons and the
update toast
Embedding workers now defer video jobs without a thumbnail at claim time and
requeue any previously-failed deferred jobs on startup, so videos no longer
churn through failed embeddings.
QoL polish across BackgroundTasks, DuplicateFinder, Lightbox and VideoPlayer.
Single-page marketing site built with React 19, Vite 7, and Tailwind v4.
Covers the full product story: local-first privacy, semantic search, explore/timeline,
curation, deduplication, and download. Screenshots transcoded to AVIF/WebP at build
(~5.3 MB masters → ~0.5 MB served). Self-hosted Inter and Space Grotesk variable fonts.
Mobile-first redesign with phone-optimised hero, swipeable feature cards, and touch-friendly
navigation. Includes the standalone Phokus aperture SVG asset.
CI: exclude website/ and docs/ from the Rust/Tauri check workflow.
Replace the stacked desktop layout with a phone-first product flow featuring an image-led hero, inline privacy proof, compact semantic search, swipeable feature cards with live pagination, expandable technical details, and touch-friendly navigation and calls to action. Add the standalone Phokus aperture SVG asset.
Self-host the Inter and Space Grotesk variable fonts, tighten the mobile layout, hide oversized edge marks on narrow screens, and add keyboard focus plus reduced-motion safeguards. Exclude website and documentation-only changes from the desktop CI workflow.
Single-page marketing site for phokus.jezz.wtf in the website/ pnpm workspace
(React 19 + Vite 7 + Tailwind v4). Sections: Hero, Local-first, Search, Explore
& timeline, Curate, Cleanup, Tech facts, Download. Product-first composition with
a recurring aperture motif (EdgeMark) bleeding off alternating edges.
Screenshots are transcoded to AVIF/WebP at build via vite-imagetools (sharp);
~5.3MB of masters -> ~0.5MB served. Commits only the 7 in-use captures.
The global *.json rule (added for transient ComfyUI workflow dumps) forced
git add -f on real configs and hid tauri.conf.json from tauri-action's
gitignore-aware globbing. Removed it and the negation workarounds; local-only
ignores (e.g. skills-lock.json) live in .git/info/exclude instead.
- tauri-action globs for tauri.conf.json honoring .gitignore; the global
*.json rule hid it (force-added but still ignore-matched), so detection
failed with 'Failed to resolve Tauri path' and it tried to re-init.
Negate it like the cuda overlay already is.
- rename uploadUpdaterJson -> includeUpdaterJson (valid v0.6.2 input).
Merge chore/release-prep into main for the first public release.
- Release pipeline: CI (fmt, clippy -D warnings, tsc) + tag-triggered
GitHub Actions building the NSIS installer as a draft release.
- Self-updater via GitHub Releases — launch check, Settings UI, update
toast, and a title-bar focal-point indicator that lights up when a new
version is ready.
- Production hardening: real CSP, scoped asset protocol, rotating file
logging, single-instance, window-state.
- Guided first-run onboarding with background FFmpeg provisioning and
resilient (curl-based, resumable) model/DLL downloads.
- Branding: Phokus aperture mark across the icon set + title bar, with a
reusable PhokusMark component.
- CUDA installer variant with bundled runtime DLLs (built locally).
- MIT license, bundle metadata, NSIS-only target, and docs (README
install/privacy, CHANGELOG, 0.1.0 release notes).
- new StepUpdates: explains the title-bar update indicator with a mini
app-window mockup, and introduces the aperture mark as the app's identity
- move the tour-closing copy off the AI features step onto this final step
- changelog: note the title-bar update indicator + one-click install, and the
new onboarding step
- light up the Phokus iris's focal point (pulsing amber) in the titlebar when
an update is pending; click goes straight to install, with a fast custom
tooltip (native title delay was too slow)
- PhokusMark gains an optional dotClassName to render the central focal point
- DemoPanel: inject every updater state (available/downloading/installing/
error/up-to-date), which is otherwise unreachable without a remote latest.json
- regenerate src-tauri/icons from the new branding/phokus-aperture.svg master
- add reusable PhokusMark component (inline SVG, inherits currentColor)
- use it for the titlebar app mark, retiring the placeholder
The background-worker pipeline drains in under a second on a fast machine,
making it impossible to screenshot live. This adds a dev-only panel
(Ctrl+Shift+D) that injects a frozen mid-pipeline state into mediaJobProgress
so the worker bar can be captured at leisure, then cleared. Gated by
import.meta.env.DEV and verified absent from the production bundle, so it
never ships. A first rough cut of the broader screenshot/demo mode.
Removing a folder only reloaded the gallery when that exact folder was the
active selection, so on All Media (or another view) its images stayed on
screen until a manual refresh. Now the folder is dropped from the sidebar
optimistically (instant feedback while the backend deletes its images), the
gallery is always reloaded, and a failed delete resyncs the folder list.
Switching search modes briefly showed the next demo's result images because
the results container stayed mounted and faded its opacity down from the
previous demo's visible state. Key it by demoIndex so it remounts fresh at
opacity-0 and only fades in once the new query finishes typing.
ureq's read timeout doesn't fire on a stalled large transfer on some Windows
TLS stacks (schannel), so a stall hangs the download forever with no recovery.
Download the ONNX runtime DLLs and the tagger model through the system
curl.exe (Win10 1803+/Win11), which has a real inactivity timeout
(--speed-time) plus resume (-C -). The size probe uses curl too, so nothing in
the download path depends on ureq.
A stalled download discards its partial when it gives up (no more deleting the
model folder by hand to restart) and fails to a retryable error in a couple of
minutes rather than locking the UI on 'preparing'. Adds progress, extraction,
and runtime-init logging. Verified downloading both models on real Windows 11
hardware.
The default build (default = candle-cuda) load-time-imports the CUDA runtime,
so it crashes on any machine without the toolkit. Add a CUDA release variant
that bundles the redistributable runtime DLLs (cudart/cublas/cublasLt/curand,
verified via dumpbin) so it runs on any NVIDIA machine with just a driver.
- tauri.cuda.conf.json: a 'tauri build --config' overlay (CPU release
untouched) that points the updater at latest-cuda.json so a CUDA install
never self-updates into the CPU build
- windows/cuda-hooks.nsh: NSIS hook embeds the DLLs via File and extracts them
next to phokus.exe, where the Windows loader searches
- build:app:cuda script; cuda-redist/ gitignored (DLLs copied from the toolkit
locally), with a negation so the overlay stays tracked
Phase 6 release collateral:
- README: Installation (unsigned-build/SmartScreen note, requirements,
first-run downloads) and Privacy & local-first sections
- CHANGELOG.md seeded with the 0.1.0 feature set
- docs/release-notes-0.1.0.md draft for the GitHub Release body
Also corrects the CLIP model download size from ~330 MB to ~580 MB (the
actual model.safetensors is 577 MB) across the docs and the onboarding UI.
The onboarding tour tells users they can right-click a folder to pause its
background work, but only the per-worker buttons in the BackgroundTasks bar
existed. Add a 'Pause/Resume background work' context-menu item that toggles
all four workers (thumbnail/metadata/embedding/tagging) for the folder.
To keep the bar and the menu in sync, worker-pause state moves from
BackgroundTasks' local state into the store (the canonical owner of app
state), so pausing from either surface reflects in both. Reuses the existing
set_worker_paused / get_worker_states commands; no backend change.
Replace the two near-identical pale ocean sunsets with three distinct
'golden sunset over water' stills — a vivid coastal sunset, a soft golden
ocean, and a golden alpine lake — so the /s demo shows a convincing,
varied result set. Drops the redundant sunset2 asset.
- search demo results were greyed-but-visible while the query was still
typing, as if the app pre-knew the search; they're now invisible (space
reserved, no layout jump) and fade in only once typing completes
- gallery preview dropped from 3 rows to 2 so the 'Click any tile' explainer
text is visible without scrolling
Two refinements from testing:
- the gallery-reveal, pipeline-drain, and search-typing animations looped
forever; they now play once and stop, with a Replay button to re-run
- the search demo's result tiles didn't match the queries. Now: a filename
search returns one exact file, '/s golden sunset over water' shows only
ocean-sunset stills (added a second), and '/t landscape' shows the three
actual landscapes (valleys + alpine lake), not a foggy forest
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