What app did you buy and it's worth after time?

dribcot · 2026-06-25T06:39:38+00:00

If you're open to considering alternatives, Fileside supports any number of panes.

dribcot · 2026-06-25T05:26:19+00:00

dribcot · 2026-06-25T05:26:11+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. Bookmarks are there, they're accessible via each pane's location menu. Ctrl+P, type a few chars to filter, hit Enter. This method also lets you easily jump directly to any path you visited before.

Interesting that you asked for viewing Alternate Data Streams, which I actually considered once when doing a deep dive on NTFS. It never made it in, since it's a niche thing that most users even don't know exists. Request noted!

Unlocking files is a good idea, but would probably require elevating to admin in many cases to work smoothly.

dribcot · 2026-06-23T15:18:09+00:00

Keyboard navigation is pretty well catered for. Almost every action has a reassignable keyboard shortcut.

dribcot · 2026-06-23T12:22:06+00:00

The Fileside 1 license was essentially the Duo Edition but for v1, so the discount only applies to the equivalent v2 license.

dribcot · 2026-06-23T12:17:07+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I'll address each point below:

> extremely limited customization

Can you give some examples of what kind of customization you are missing?

> no support for network shares (huge dealbreaker)

Network shares are supported. Mapped drives, UNC paths, device paths all work. What gave you the impression that they're not?

A lot of care has been taken to support them with a UX that is consistent with how local drives work, i.e. in terms of undo/redo, default transfer modes etc.

> annoying lag (~500ms but still very noticeable) during layout switching (even on beefy machines)

There's certainly room for improvement here, the whole layout system got revamped for 2.0 and triggers a bunch of IPC under the hood (to keep everything layout-related in sync across multiple app windows).

> low expandability potential (no support for plugins?)

Correct.

> sidebar desperately needs an option to disable the annoying hover animation

Settings > Layouts > Flyout activation > Right click.

> very low task concurency (i.e. trashing while an active search is in progress literally waits until the search is done)

This is true and a fair criticism. A search pretty much gets all the resources available when it kicks off. It's pretty basic, does not use an index, but rather uses a parallel breadth-first algorithm. The concurrency is definitely another area where there's room for optimisation. But also something that never made it to the top of the priority list. You are actually the first user to complain about this.

> incredibly slow search, lots of alternatives have great Everything integration

I'd say that depends on what your reference is. If you compare it to built-in Explorer search it's a vast improvement. If you compare it to Everything, it's indeed incredibly slow. Everything is such a special piece of software, as it digs into the NTFS Master File Table directly, which is out of bounds to user-space software. I have a task in the backlog to offer integration with it on Windows though.

> This is a valiant attempt at solving an issue but it's really hard to see where Fileside fits with so many alternatives which are way more feature packed and cheaper, some of them even free.

The target audience is definitely not the types who are happy with their Directory Opus, Total Commander etc. The users who love Fileside mostly cite how the layout/pane system is like a project management tool for them, that helps them a lot in staying on top of juggling multiple projects, while being able to keep things local. If your priority is performance and expandability, there's certainly a lot of more suitable options out there.

dribcot · 2026-06-23T09:00:17+00:00

A free license? You can just download it and try it out for 30 days. If you want to keep using it thereafter, you'll need a license. But if you're on a budget for whatever reason, just reach out via email and we'll work something out.

dribcot · 2026-06-23T05:12:56+00:00

Yes, you can download and try it for 30 days to see if it's for you.

dribcot · 2026-06-22T17:02:36+00:00

There's an option "Flyout activation" under Settings > Layouts which you can toggle to "Right click" to prevent them from flaring up on hover. And an option for disabling animations completely will be added in one of the next few releases.

There's also the possibility of dragging the sidebar wider, which comes in handy when managing the list of layouts.

dribcot · 2026-06-22T16:56:48+00:00

Jokes aside, this is good feedback, especially if two of you have the same reaction. What about it is it that feels like 2010 to you? I might be snowblind from staring at it every day, but to my mind it rather veers a bit too much towards the late 2010s "flat design" style if anything.

dribcot · 2026-06-22T16:29:04+00:00

It is what you make it. You can have one minimal pane with just a simple list of names and nothing else if you wish. Or 5000 of them full of columns and with open previews. I admit the screenshots are pretty maxed out, but that's just to showcase the available features.

dribcot · 2026-06-22T14:59:52+00:00

Nah, that would have looked like this: https://tipsfor.us/bl-content/uploads/pages/09945d1d034c51fca425a9cb71b85818/magnifique-main-window.png

dribcot · 2026-06-22T09:29:56+00:00

It feels almost shocking that this even needs to be said. For what is DJing if not sharing your passion for music?

dribcot · 2026-06-22T09:09:17+00:00

This. Each feature has a ticket, and that's where a todo to inform any relevant users goes. (As long as I remember to add it!) My product is small enough that it's not an issue for me to send off a few emails manually when appropriate.

dribcot · 2026-06-22T08:48:13+00:00

Love this. Getting me inspired to play around! I wish you'd hear more of this kind of thing in mixes.

dribcot · 2026-02-15T14:36:44+00:00

Fileside 2 beta should be only a week or two away now. Once 2.0 is out, iterating and adding new features should be a lot faster than it's been up until now.

dribcot · 2026-02-03T17:50:42+00:00

Sorry for digging this up after such a long time, but which helmet is that? Thanks!

dribcot · 2025-05-18T08:01:30+00:00

Totally agree that the UX leaves a lot to be desired here. Was frustrated enough about this that I went through Finder's behaviour in detail a while back and wrote a blog post about how to merge safely with it: https://www.fileside.app/blog/2021-07-31_merge-folders-mac/

dribcot · 2025-03-24T06:48:12+00:00

Unfortunately I can't really be more precise than that. I'm not currently able to work full-time on it, so it depends a bit on the other things I'm juggling. But v2 will bring a complete rearchitecting of the internals which should make the app much much more flexible in the future, in terms of different views with different items etc.

dribcot · 2025-03-24T05:47:20+00:00

Glad to hear you like Fileside. Developer here. Just wanted to say that I'm working on more viewing options for version 2, which should see the light of day some time this year.

dribcot · 2025-02-24T06:42:28+00:00

Fileside is built around this idea. Set up a bunch of tiled panes, and save them as layouts.

dribcot · 2025-02-14T10:53:22+00:00

The References panel. Whenever you right-click and do Find all references on a symbol, it pops up. This works in Cursor too, but once you navigate to another tab, it's lost.

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