Add a dev-only Vite UI mode with Tauri API mocks, in-memory fixture scenarios, reusable media source handling, and documentation for browser-based visual testing.
Albums (manual collections):
- New albums/album_images tables with FK cascades; DB functions and Tauri
commands for create/rename/delete/delete-many/reorder/list, add/remove
images, and paginated get_album_images.
- Distinct sidebar "ALBUMS" section with cover thumbnails, create/rename/
delete, and a Manage multi-select mode for bulk album deletion.
- Album view reuses the gallery grid (activeView "album" + selectedAlbumId);
spans folders; add from the bulk bar or the lightbox, remove from within.
Gallery multi-select + bulk actions:
- gallerySelectedIds selection model with a top-left corner checkbox that
reveals on corner hover; click-to-toggle in selection mode, double-click
to open.
- Floating BulkActionBar: tag (inline autocomplete popover), rating,
favorite, add-to-album, and a delete with an explicit "from disk"
confirmation. Batch commands bulk_update_details/bulk_add_tags/
bulk_remove_tag.
Also:
- Duplicate Finder delete now requires confirmation with clear "from disk"
wording (was single-click fire-and-forget).
- CPU/CUDA build-variant badge in Settings (get_build_variant).
- Rating/favorite no longer re-sorts derived collections (similar/region/
semantic/tag/album results); single and bulk paths replace in place there.
- Album-aware indexed-images/media-updated handlers so thumbnails paint and
newly-indexed files don't leak into an album view.
- CHANGELOG updated.
Post-update UX for the next release (0.1.2):
- What's New: after a version change, greet the user with a toast that opens
an in-app release-notes screen (collapsible Added/Changed/Fixed sections)
sourced from the bundled CHANGELOG.md, reopenable from Settings -> Updates.
Backed by a last_seen_version settings file (get/set_last_seen_version
commands) that distinguishes upgrades from fresh installs.
- Updater: the download/install progress toast now reappears when an update is
started from the title-bar indicator or Settings after the prompt was
dismissed; Settings -> Updates gains a real progress bar with a percentage.
- Light theme: fix the recurring subtle-light breakage. Neutral surfaces now
rely on the CSS-variable remap instead of light-theme:bg-white (which forced
surfaces dark because --color-white is remapped dark); the green action
buttons drop the broken light-theme:hover:bg-emerald-200 (remapped dark,
unreadable on hover) for an override-free emerald-500 tint that auto-themes,
across the updater, What's New, and onboarding.
- Debug panel: add What's New triggers (toast / modal / reset).
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.
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.
Phase 5 of the 0.1.0 release prep:
- FFmpeg no longer blocks startup (or crashes the app offline): provisioning
runs in a background thread emitting throttled ffmpeg-progress events,
with installed/downloading/failed state queryable via get_ffmpeg_status
and a retry command
- video jobs are invisible to claiming and tier-priority checks until FFmpeg
is ready, so they wait as pending without failing — and without starving
image embeddings/tagging (include_videos gating in db.rs)
- 7-step show-don't-tell onboarding wizard: welcome + live FFmpeg progress,
real first-folder picker, faked animating pipeline bar, placeholder
gallery tiles, cycling search-syntax demo, views overview, and an AI
features step with a real opt-in tagger download
- skippable at every point (Escape included), persisted via
settings/onboarding_completed.txt, re-runnable from Settings > General,
which also gains an FFmpeg status/retry row
Phase 3 of the 0.1.0 release prep:
- tauri-plugin-updater + tauri-plugin-process wired into the builder, with
updater:default / process:allow-restart capabilities
- bundle.createUpdaterArtifacts: true; endpoint points at the GitHub
releases latest.json, pubkey baked into tauri.conf.json
- store: update status state machine (check / download progress / install)
with a quiet launch check (prod only) that stays silent on network errors
- UI: dismissible update toast with download progress, plus an Updates group
in Settings > General showing current version and manual check/install
Debounce embedding/tagging completion notifications per folder (6s window)
so rapid file additions from downloaders fire one notification instead of
one per file. Add per-folder mute via the sidebar context menu and a global
pause toggle in Settings > General, both persisted across restarts.
- New Timeline view groups all media by YYYY-MM using taken_at ?? created_at
- @tanstack/react-virtual (group-level virtualiser) keeps scroll smooth on
large libraries; estimateSize is exact so no measureElement needed
- ResizeObserver tracks container width; virtualizer.measure() is called on
cols change to prevent stale position cache after window resize
- setView("timeline") in store auto-sets sort:"taken_asc", resets images,
and triggers a fresh load
- Calendar nav item added to Sidebar between Explore and Duplicates
- ContextMenu and ImageTile exported from Gallery for reuse in Timeline
Adds a full discovery and organisation layer to the gallery.
## AI Tagger
- WD tagger (ONNX via ort) with DirectML/CPU acceleration
- Per-image and per-folder tag queuing; configurable batch size and
confidence threshold; model downloaded on first use via ureq/zip
- Tags stored with source ('ai' | 'user'); user tags are never
overwritten by AI; AI tags protected from accidental promotion
- Tagger pause/resume per folder; in-flight batches discarded cleanly
on pause or cancellation without leaving jobs stuck in processing
## Semantic & Tag Search
- CLIP text-query embedding via candle (HuggingFace hub model)
- Progressive candidate doubling with filter post-processing so
folder/rating/media-kind filters do not silently under-return results
- Tag search with DB-backed pagination (offset + COUNT total)
- Filename search unchanged; prefix syntax: s:, t:, f: in search bar
## Similarity Search
- HNSW in-memory index (hnsw_rs) with monotonic embedding_revision
counter for cache invalidation; build_index retries if a concurrent
write advances the revision during construction
- Folder-scoped similar search uses brute-force cosine scan (no k limit)
- Region-based similarity: crop an arbitrary rectangle in the lightbox,
embed it with CLIP, find the nearest images globally or within folder
- Pagination for both similar and region results; scope toggle
(all media / current folder) re-runs the query without reopening image
## Duplicate Finder
- Three-phase detection: stat (size) → sample hash (4×16 KB windows)
→ full-file hash (xxh3, large files only) to eliminate false positives
- Filesystem-first deletion: only removes DB rows for files successfully
deleted from disk; failed files remain visible for retry
- Persisted scan cache (SQLite) with invalidation on reindex and deletion;
both global and per-folder scopes invalidated after any deletion
## Tag Cloud & Explore
- Visual cluster explore: k-means over CLIP embeddings, configurable k,
representative thumbnail per cluster; cache keyed on xxh3 of embedding set
- Tag explore: ranked tag list with image counts and representative
thumbnail per tag; invalidated when AI tagging completes or folder removed
- Tag autocomplete for search bar
## Folder Management
- Inline rename (display name only, not OS rename)
- Relocate: file-picker to update folder path; all image paths rewritten
using SUBSTR prefix replacement to avoid corrupting paths that contain
the folder name as a substring
- Missing-folder recovery banner: Locate or Remove, never silent deletion
- Right-click context menu on sidebar items: Reindex, Rename, Locate,
Remove; hover buttons preserved alongside context menu
## Background Tasks
- Per-folder progress panel with embedding, tagging, caption, and
thumbnail stage breakdown
- Retry button per task for failed embeddings and tagging jobs
- Completed-task notifications (system tray via tauri-plugin-notification)
- Scan errors shown inline; WalkDir permission errors protect existing
records from deletion rather than cascading data loss
## Backend correctness
- sqlite-vec DML performed outside transactions throughout (virtual-table
limitation); embedding revision incremented on delete as well as insert
- Tagging job discard checks status = 'processing' so paused jobs reset
to 'pending' are also skipped, not just cancelled ones
- Stale async responses in Lightbox guarded with cancellation flags and
currentImageIdRef for both tag-load and tag-add callbacks
- Duplicate cache cleared on reindex; folder-removal clears vector rows
outside transaction before deleting the folder row
Introduces an Explore view with a tag cloud that clusters image embeddings
using cosine k-means and labels clusters via vocabulary-nearest-neighbour
CLIP matching. Vocabulary embeddings are disk-cached (FNV hash-keyed) to
avoid redundant inference. Enables CUDA for candle dependencies and adds a
build.rs check that surfaces a clear error when the toolkit is missing.
- add semantic text search with toolbar mode switching and sqlite-vec query support
- improve embedding progress visibility, failure recovery, and similar-image affordances
- add search clearing and keyboard controls for filename vs semantic search modes
- refine background task interactions and gallery/lightbox embedding states
Refs: #4
- add Candle + HF Hub CLIP image embedding pipeline with background embedding worker
- write image embeddings into sqlite-vec and expose similar-image lookup through a new backend command
- surface embedding progress and recovery in the UI, including retries for failed embeddings
- improve gallery/lightbox embedding UX and make similar-image actions directly accessible
Refs: #3, #4
Sets up Tauri v2 + React frontend with SQLite metadata store,
sqlite-vec for CLIP embedding infrastructure, and r2d2 connection
pool replacing the single Arc<Mutex<Connection>>. Indexer now uses
rayon for parallel file metadata collection.
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