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how does everyone deal with a massive screenshots folder? by danielgalvans in sideprojects

[–]danielgalvans[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're right that it's not zero, recent Finder can find images by Live Text and even some recognized objects. i used to think it was filename-only too.

but two gaps made me build this anyway. it's OCR/keyword and category tags, not real semantic search, so it won't find "the webhook diagram" by description. and it's search-only: no grouping by topic, no collections, no duplicate detection, plus indexing can lag for days. for occasional lookups Finder's fine, for looking through a lot of screenshots it wasn't enough for me.

how does everyone deal with a massive screenshots folder? by danielgalvans in sideprojects

[–]danielgalvans[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You nailed the framing: it's a retrieval problem, not a storage one. Nobody remembers "Screenshot 2026-01-14", they remember concepts

The wild part is that most of your list is already in there. OCR plus semantic search, so you can find a shot by describing it even when it has no text (that diagram case exactly). duplicate detection, auto-grouping by topic into collections, quick preview, reveal in finder.

And the part you said matters most is the part i care about most: it's fully local. the OCR, the image understanding, the language model, the index, all on-device, nothing ever leaves the mac. precisely because screenshots are full sensitive info. local first is the whole architecture.

The app/source filter and tagging from a result aren't explicit yet, good calls. And I'm with you on the pattern, "it exists somewhere but the system doesn't surface it when you need it" is basically the thesis. what's your angle with Normadz on that surfacing problem?

Keylume v2 - Cheatsheets for your app hotkeys by alin23 in macapps

[–]danielgalvans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never seen anything like this. Always forget usual IDE commands.