LyAhn cd7dd89f00 feat(settings): flat desktop redesign with proportional sizing
Complete presentation rework of the Settings modal away from the
card-based tablet look:

- Dialog now sizes proportionally (85vw x 85vh, capped at 1400x900)
  and resizes with the app window instead of a fixed centred square.
- Content rebuilt as flat form rows in the VS Code preferences style:
  uppercase group headings with hairline-divided label/control rows —
  no nested cards, panels, or boxed strips. Sidebar retained.
- Duplicated content header removed; close button floats top-right.
- Folder selection restyled from bordered chips to flat divider rows;
  model path and runtime check render as plain monospace text.

Also fixes two maintenance-section bugs: thumbnail-cache stats no
longer blank to em-dashes while a cleanup is running, and the Compact
now button disables immediately after compaction instead of allowing
pointless re-runs until the section remounted.
2026-06-12 12:07:52 +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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