fileswiper

FileSwiper

A tiny macOS app that lets you sort out the contents of a folder by swiping files into buckets.

✨ Features:

• ➡️ Swipe, drag, or throw files into the folder buckets to move them
• 🖼️ File previews for all native macOS file types
• ⏭️ Skip files by swiping them upwards
• 🗑️ Trash files by swiping them into the trash can
• 🪣 Add up to 8 buckets at once to sort files into
• 🔬 See file size and type date at a glance
• ↩️ Move history, undo the last move
• 🔍 Double click to preview file at full size

📦 Download:

• Download the latest release Alpha v0.1.0

NOTE: Tested on macOS 11.4 (Big Sur) only so far, and only on my machine. Trash functionality is not working on production app yet, but works in dev mode.

🤓 Interesting bits:

• qlmanage used to generate native file previews for macOS
• interact.js used for adding physics and handling drag interactions
• CSS trigonomic functions used for the circular UI layout

Development Setup / Notes:

• npm install
• npm start

🛣️ For V1 (* = work started):

• Allow a list of files from multiple locations to populate the stack
• Have electron serve itself from local IP so can connect on mobile devices to swipe * – This works! Tested 17/04/2023. Mobile needs significant UI/UX work to be usable – Improve the responsive layout from fullscreen -> mobile – Use websockets to connect to Electron instance on LAN – Use QR code on electron main screen to open link on mobile – Then verify connection on mobile using single use PIN – Then use mobile to swipe files into buckets
• Add video previews in detailed view
• Keyboard shortcuts for moving files into buckets, skip, undo, trash
• Add ability to rename buckets / folders
• Dark mode + add custom themes for design and layout
• Cloud integration, dropbox, google drive, etc
• Remove tailwind, and/or move it to being used in stylesheet / clean up styles in general
• Implement the sort by option in the UI *
• add search / filtering to the file list *
• 🔠 Sort files by name, size, and last modified date *
• 🕵️ Folder watching, file list updates on OS level file changes *

📜 License:

MIT

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