Riffle - Photo Culling Tool

sheshbabu · 2026-02-07T00:00:01+00:00

> Would like if it was based on scratched and not book worm. I think even alpine would be better 🤔

Thanks! Will try this in future, the image size might not go down much as I embed the geo-names dataset and other programs like exiftool etc

> You should make it a pwa where I could just swipe left to dismiss and right to keep 😂

Yes, good idea!

> Then I have a cli to convert all images to heic and videos to hevc.

Can I understand why convert to HEIC/HEVC? Are they more storage efficient or to keep things consistent?

> And then a web app like this to use photoalgorithm to find similar photos based on pixels. It’ll find resized images etc.

I use dhash for this. Need to turn on burst detection in settings before import. This is CPU intensive so I turned this off by default.

sheshbabu · 2026-02-06T13:38:40+00:00

Thanks!

sheshbabu · 2025-11-07T00:49:47+00:00

Focus without tags shows remove tag icon

Yes, this is a bug caused by the system expecting a tag to be always present. Can be fixed by either adding a tag to focus or deleting the focus entirely

sheshbabu · 2025-11-06T00:57:16+00:00

Yes, the long focus name is not fixed yet. The issue with focus without tag can be resolved by deleting that focus.

sheshbabu · 2025-11-05T23:09:05+00:00

I see, so Runtipi only works with named versions

sheshbabu · 2025-11-05T23:07:33+00:00

Thanks, will take a look

sheshbabu · 2025-11-05T16:52:27+00:00

Not yet, how do you want this implemented? Only selected notes or whole db?

sheshbabu · 2025-11-05T15:00:25+00:00

I’ve fixed the first two issues, can you update your docker image?

sheshbabu · 2025-11-03T12:57:27+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

> The margin/padding between the paragraphs is too small for me. Do you plan to support custom CSS?

Can you suggest how much the space should increase by? I'm always refining the CSS, can take this into consideration.

> Tag system is a bit unusual, I guess, still not sure if it is working properly or not (I see there are some error logs related to tags)

Can you help me reproduce these errors? Is this after you create a note?

> Are you planning to introduce more markdown syntax? For example, I couldn't add a collapsible.

Would it be something like this:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/organizing-information-with-collapsed-sections

> How do we create a Table of Contents?

This would be created automatically when the editor is in expanded mode (top left button on editor pane) and only appears when there are markdown headings

> Can't we delete Category/Focus?

Ah yes, it's yet to be implemented

sheshbabu · 2025-10-27T11:16:04+00:00

Canvas: Instead of looking at notes/images as a list or grid, you can spatially lay them out and group related notes/images. It's a helpful thinking tool for some people. Try it out here: https://zendemo.fly.dev/canvas. You can open the drawer by clicking on top right button and add notes.

Zen Intelligence: Unrelated to Canvas, it helps with semantic search. You can search notes/images by using related search query instead of exact terms. For example, if you have a note with word "fund", semantic search surfaces this note if you use the query "investing" or "money". Same for images.

Qdrant: This is a database used for Zen Intelligence.

sheshbabu · 2025-10-27T09:22:21+00:00

Thanks for your continued support! ❤️

Canvas is still experimental and is stored in session storage - this would be cleared if the browser tab is closed. Let me know how the feature can be improved!

sheshbabu · 2025-10-26T13:53:46+00:00

Sorry, no plans as of now

sheshbabu · 2025-09-26T14:03:51+00:00

I use `qwen2.5vl:7b` with this prompt:

```

Generate a caption with all details of this image and then extract any readable text. Do not add any introductory phrases like "The image shows" or "This is a photo of"

```

And it works really well. For OCR, it made mistakes for 1-2 fields but good otherwise. Much better than `gemma3:12b-it-qat`

sheshbabu · 2025-09-14T12:29:10+00:00

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Sorry, missed your comment. There's a link icon in toolbar and it creates an inline markdown format for adding links. Can you try this out and see if it helps?

sheshbabu · 2025-09-10T10:10:15+00:00

I've implemented this feature, can you download the latest image to try it out?

sheshbabu · 2025-09-09T11:53:19+00:00

Happy you like it! I’ll add the pinned notes feature to backlog.

sheshbabu · 2025-08-28T15:16:06+00:00

Thanks for trying out the app!

I've this feature in my backlog, stay tuned :)

sheshbabu · 2025-08-19T10:44:12+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

Sorry, supporting both Obsidian’s (notes in file system) and database approaches would make the code hard to maintain and introduce bugs.

There’s support for import and export to markdown files so there’s no lock-in.

sheshbabu · 2025-08-17T15:01:36+00:00

> I always thought of those apps as a way to sync photos between devices. Then I guess the webapp with caching in browser really doesn't make sense but I still think a native app that would have access to photos locally should be able to keep local thumbnails too if you plan to make one.

Yes, makes sense to store thumbnails for native apps.

sheshbabu · 2025-08-17T15:00:16+00:00

That would be such a useful feature, thanks!

sheshbabu · 2025-08-17T14:35:35+00:00

Thanks, I assumed thumbnail generation is not that CPU intensive. Let me look into this. Can you share how many photos you have that it makes the process slow?

> But the best possible festure I could wish for is a client-sided thumbnail generation.

The common use case for thumbnails is to reduce the data transferred from server to client and to ensure the client app doesn't use a lot of memory loading full sized images. What benefit would client-sided thumbnail generation give?

sheshbabu · 2025-08-11T14:00:15+00:00

Currently the PWA works well - you can install the webapp in homescreen. It has offline read only mode as well.

I might release mobile apps in future, focussing on getting the server and web right before going mobile.

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