LyAhn 33fb3c6c77 feat(settings): overhaul Settings modal with improvements and General section
- Remove Workers section (read-only status, belongs in background tasks panel)
- Remove Captioning coming-soon placeholder
- Add General section with Open data folder button (tauri-plugin-opener)
- Persist queue scope and folder selection across sessions via settings files
- Show inline validation errors on threshold/batch size inputs instead of silent revert
- Fix acceleration save errors appearing in wrong card
- Disable folder selection controls when target scope is All media
2026-06-09 00:14:49 +01:00
2026-04-05 19:12:48 +01:00

Phokus

A local-first desktop media library for browsing, filtering, and curating image and video folders.

Features

  • Add and remove media folders; background indexing with live progress
  • Browse all media or filter by folder, type (image/video), favorites, or star rating
  • Filename search, semantic search (/s query), and tag search (/t tag)
  • Similar image search — find visually similar media by image or selected region
  • AI tagging via WD tagger (ONNX, CPU/DirectML) with confidence threshold control
  • Explore view — visual cluster map and tag cloud for browsing by theme
  • Duplicate finder — scan for exact duplicates by file hash with bulk delete
  • Lightbox preview with keyboard navigation, inline tag editing, and rating controls
  • Sort by date, name, size, rating, or duration
  • Grid density controls (compact / comfortable / detail)

Supported formats

Images Videos
jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp mp4, mov, m4v
tiff, tif, webp, avif, heic, heif webm

Stack

  • Tauri 2 + Rust backend
  • React 19 + TypeScript + Zustand
  • SQLite + sqlite-vec (vector search)
  • ONNX Runtime (ort) for AI tagging
  • Candle (Rust ML) for visual embeddings
  • FFmpeg sidecar for video thumbnails and metadata
  • Vite + Tailwind CSS v4

Development

Prerequisites: Node.js 20+, pnpm, Rust toolchain, Tauri system prerequisites for Windows.

pnpm install

# Run with hot-reload (frontend + Rust)
pnpm dev:app

# Frontend only
pnpm dev:vite

# Production build
pnpm build:app

How it works

  1. Add a folder from the sidebar — the Rust indexer walks it recursively.
  2. Supported files are written to SQLite with metadata (path, dimensions, media type, etc.).
  3. Background workers generate thumbnails, compute visual embeddings, and run AI tagging.
  4. Progress events stream back to the UI while the gallery updates incrementally.
  5. Embeddings power semantic search and the similar images feature via an HNSW index.
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Description
Local-first image gallery with semantic search and AI tagging (Tauri + React + Rust)
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