Compact the left/right sidebars and the photo info panel: shrink panel
widths, drop header height, switch top-level tree groups and metadata
sections to small uppercase eyebrow labels, and tighten row padding,
icon sizes, and count badges throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the cool-grey neutral theme with a warm desert dusk palette
pulled from a new pixel-art TopBar: a tiled, right-to-left scrolling
desert under a sky gradient, a 6-frame walking mule sprite where the
logo used to sit, and an ASCII block-character title on a black plate.
The active heap card now uses a cactus/dune scene as its stack
backdrop, and the "Built with hubris" mark moves into the TopBar's
bottom-right corner (AppFooter component removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Duplicates section was useless: SHA-256-only detection only caught
byte-identical files, not the actual duplicates a real library
accumulates (re-encoded JPEGs, screenshots, resized exports), and the
view was a flat date-sorted list with no grouping or actions. This
replaces the whole flow.
Detection
- New phash + duplicate_group_id columns on Photo, added via an
idempotent ALTER TABLE pass in init_db (the project has no Alembic).
- Thumbs worker computes a 64-bit pHash from the original-resolution
decoded frame just before the destructive thumbnail loop. Falls back
silently — phash is nice-to-have, not a blocker for thumbnails.
- backfill_phashes Celery task fills in phashes for photos that
predated the column, reading the existing thumb_large rather than
re-decoding the original.
- regroup_duplicates service runs union-find over Hamming distance
(threshold 6), persists duplicate_group_id, and maintains is_duplicate
as derived state so existing badges/counts keep working. Chained
after scan_all_source_roots with a 60s countdown.
API
- GET /library/duplicates/groups returns all groups with members,
bucketed in Python from one query. Each group has a reason ("exact"
iff every member shares a SHA-256, "similar" otherwise).
- POST /library/maintenance/{regroup-duplicates,backfill-phashes}.
Frontend
- New DuplicatesView (sectioned grid, one section per cluster) replaces
the timeline when the user is in the duplicates section. Each section
shows a "Keep best, discard N" button that picks the highest-pixel
copy and reuses the existing undoable bulk-discard so Cmd+Z works.
- Manual best override: hover any non-best thumbnail and click "Keep
this" (Crown icon, top-right) to override the auto-pick. The header
annotates "(manual)" so it's obvious which copy will be kept.
- Keyboard nav within the duplicates view walks the flat member list,
with ↑/↓ jumping by the measured column count and scrollIntoView on
every move. Timeline's keyboard handler now early-returns in the
duplicates section so the two don't fight.
- BEST pill / Keep-this button live at top-right with a ring outline so
they don't collide visually with the cyan selection ring around a
selected cell. Dimensions chip moved to bottom-left to free both
right corners for the keep affordances.
- New "Duplicates" section in SettingsDialog: shows group/member counts
and exposes both backfill + re-detect actions, sharing a query cache
with DuplicatesView via DUPLICATE_GROUPS_QUERY_KEY.
- PhotoInfoPanel "Basic Info" section now shows the photo's full file
path in monospace below the size/dimensions/date grid.
- New imagehash==4.3.1 dep in requirements.txt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Parallelize the six celery inspect.*() calls in /library/maintenance/
worker-status via asyncio.gather + to_thread, and drop per-call
timeout from 1.0s to 0.5s. Endpoint goes from ~6.1s to ~0.54s — it
was the sole bottleneck on opening the Settings dialog.
- SettingsDialog now fetches through React Query with enabled:isOpen,
so reopening shows cached data instantly while a background refetch
updates. Worker polling moved to refetchInterval. Loading spinners
only show when there's no cached data yet, so background refetches
don't keep them spinning.
- Move the Settings entry point from the TopBar to a pinned row at the
bottom of the LeftSidebar so it sits alongside the other library
controls. TopBar no longer takes onOpenSettings.
- Remove the "Scan all folders" bottom action from LeftSidebar — the
same control already lives in Settings → Library → Re-scan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Right sidebar stays open by default and shows an empty state when
nothing is selected, instead of auto-hiding on deselect.
- Both sidebars now have a collapse button in their header and an
expand button in the TopBar that only appears when collapsed, so
each panel has a discoverable affordance in either state.
- Arrow-key navigation auto-scrolls the destination row into view
with a ~35% peek margin, cueing the user that there's more content
in the scroll direction.
- Fix: the width sentinel's measurement effect never installed its
ResizeObserver when Timeline first rendered the loading state (ref
was null, empty-dep effect didn't re-run), so containerWidth stuck
at 0 and the grid fell back to 4 columns × 200px forever. Switched
to a callback ref that attaches the observer the moment the
sentinel actually mounts.
- KeyboardHints surface the Tab (library) and I (info) shortcuts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- photos.py: stop crashing in FileResponse when a thumb hasn't been
generated; return a clean 404 with Retry-After so the frontend can
back off.
- thumbs.py: fix process_video_thumbnail (overwrite_output, robust
duration probe across stream/format, eager frame load + temp cleanup)
so videos stop ending up as the gray placeholder.
- library.py: new /maintenance/* endpoints — thumbnail-stats,
regenerate-thumbnails (with media_type / only_failed filters), and a
manual data-integrity cleanup trigger.
- Frontend Settings panel (gear in TopBar) surfacing those endpoints
plus a re-scan button and live thumbnail status counts.
- PhotoThumbnail: stretch the auto-retry schedule for slow RAW jobs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- KeyboardHints: switch from fixed positioning to absolute, mounted
inside the main content column. The column is now relative-positioned
so the hints overlay centers against the timeline area instead of the
raw viewport (which was off-center because of the sidebars).
- AppFooter: tiny "Built with hubris • <YEAR in roman>" pinned to the
bottom-right corner of the main column. Year is computed at render
time and converted via a small toRoman helper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- api.ts: switch baseURL from http://localhost:8001/api/v1 to relative
/api/v1. Both nginx (prod) and vite (dev) already proxy /api/ to the
backend, so requests become same-origin and the app works from any
host (LAN IP, reverse proxy, another machine) with no CORS dance.
- backend CORS: open to "*" as a fallback for the rare direct-hit case;
the normal flow is same-origin via the proxy and never touches CORS.
- App layout: move FilterBar and DiscardActionBar inside the main
content column (right of the left sidebar) so the filter row no
longer bleeds across the sidebar.
- FilterBar: justify-center the pills so they sit centered above the
timeline. Clear-all uses ml-2 instead of ml-auto.
- KeyboardHints: convert to a floating, glassy pill pinned bottom-
center (fixed positioning + backdrop-blur + ring) instead of a flat
toolbar row. Removed from the column layout — now mounted as an
overlay sibling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- backend/photos: whitelist sortable columns instead of getattr(Photo, sort).
Previously any client-supplied string was passed to SQLAlchemy, exposing
every Photo attribute (filepath, file_hash, etc.) as a sort target.
- App: move the auto-show-right-sidebar logic out of the render body and
into a useEffect. The previous version called setState during render,
causing extra re-render passes the audit caught.
- types/photo: add added_at and tighten folder_id from optional to nullable.
Drops a (photo as any).added_at cast in Timeline.
- constants/colorLabels: extract a single COLOR_LABEL_OPTIONS used by
FilterBar, RightSidebar, and PhotoInfoPanel. filterStore re-exports the
ColorLabel type so existing imports keep working.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge the toggleable multi-line FilterBar and the separate ActiveFilterChips
strip into a single always-visible row of pills. Each filter category is a
pill that opens a small popover with its underlying control; when active, the
pill shows its current value inline (so the chips strip is redundant).
- New FilterPill primitive: outside-click + Escape to close, optional inline
X to clear without opening the popover.
- FilterBar rebuilt out of pills for Date/Type/Rating/Color/Flag/Tags/Sort,
with a Clear-all pill on the right when any filter is active.
- Drop filterBarOpen from filterStore, the SlidersHorizontal toggle from
TopBar, the \\ shortcut from useKeyboardShortcuts, and the matching hint
from KeyboardHints — the bar is always visible now.
- Delete ActiveFilterChips; its information lives inside the pills.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the destructive-action loop the discard concept needed:
- Click "Discarded" in the left sidebar → activates the discarded
filter; the timeline reloads showing discarded photos.
- DiscardActionBar appears at the top of the timeline only when the
discarded filter is active. Shows the count, a Restore button (when
photos are selected), and an Empty discard pile button.
- Empty action goes through a ConfirmDialog (new tiny reusable modal,
same overlay pattern as AddSourceFolderDialog).
- Restore goes through POST /api/v1/discard/restore.
- DELETE /api/v1/discard/empty now actually os.unlink()s the files
from disk in addition to removing the DB rows. Per-file failures
are logged and reported in the response so a single permission
error doesn't abort the batch.
Other library nodes wired in passing:
- "All Photos" → clearAll()
- "Rated" → setRatingMin(1)
- "Flagged" → setFlag('picked')
- "Discarded" → setFlag('discarded')
- "By Date" left unwired (needs a date-grouping UI)
Single-photo restore via the U keyboard shortcut already worked from
an earlier round, no change needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The loupe view is now called "preview" everywhere — file paths, type
names, store actions, and the contextual hint pill. There's a single
preview action bound to E and Space (Enter is gone); double-click on a
thumbnail still works. Both shortcuts toggle: open from grid, close
from preview.
This commit also folds in the fix for the "preview shows nothing" bug
the user just hit:
- Extract usePhotosQuery into frontend/src/hooks/usePhotosQuery.ts so
Timeline, PreviewView, and App.tsx all share one query — and one
cache entry. Previously PreviewView and App.tsx looked the cache up
by ['photos'], but the Timeline query key gained the filter params
(['photos', filterParams]) when the filter bar shipped, so the
lookup returned undefined and the preview rendered "No photo to
display". App.tsx's getFirstPhotoId callback had the same bug.
- Harden PreviewImage: render the <img> immediately and overlay the
spinner with absolute positioning, instead of toggling opacity-0 →
opacity-100 on load. The previous opacity-toggle could leave the
image stuck invisible if the load event raced with a key change.
- Add { preventDefault: true } to every useHotkeys call so single
letter shortcuts (1-5, P, X, U) no longer leak into Firefox quick-
find, and Cmd/Ctrl+F no longer triggers the browser find toolbar.
Files renamed:
components/loupe/LoupeView.tsx -> components/preview/PreviewView.tsx
components/loupe/LoupeImage.tsx -> components/preview/PreviewImage.tsx
components/loupe/LoupeFilmstrip.tsx -> components/preview/PreviewFilmstrip.tsx
components/loupe/loupeSrc.ts -> components/preview/previewSrc.ts
Symbol renames: openLoupe→openPreview, closeLoupe→closePreview, the
viewMode 'loupe' tag → 'preview', and all the LoupeXxx component and
helper exports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bottom-left KeyboardShortcuts drawer duplicated information that
the contextual KeyboardHints pill already shows for the current
selection state. Removing it in favor of the contextual hints alone.
KeyboardHints was previously a fixed top-14 overlay, which collided
with the FilterBar when it was opened — the hints panel covered the
filter controls. Refactored it to render inline in the App header
stack (TopBar / FilterBar / ActiveFilterChips / KeyboardHints /
Timeline) so it flows naturally and never overlaps.
Also:
- Hide hints in loupe mode (the loupe has its own context)
- Replace the deleted shortcuts (Ctrl+A, Trash) with the newly wired
ones (\\ Filters, / Search, E Loupe) so the hints surface them
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the spec §6.7 filter bar to the top of the timeline with:
- Date range (native date inputs)
- Media type chips (Photo / Video / RAW / HEIC, multi-select)
- Min star rating (click to set, click again to clear)
- Color label dots (red/orange/yellow/green/blue/purple, single)
- Flag (any / picked / rejected / unflagged)
- Clear-all button
Active filters surface as removable chips below the bar so they're
visible whether the bar is collapsed or open. The TopBar search input
is now wired to the same filter store with a 300ms debounce, and shows
a clear button when populated.
Filter state is the source of truth in a Zustand store and round-trips
through the URL via history.replaceState — bookmarkable and shareable
per spec §6.7. Hydrate happens once on mount; subsequent store changes
write back to ?q=&date_from=&… without navigation.
Timeline reads filter state, builds the backend params via
filtersToParams, and includes them in the React Query key so the cache
invalidates on every filter change. Also fixes a latent bug: Timeline
was sending limit=1000&offset=0, which the backend silently ignores —
swapped to page=1&per_page=500 with explicit sort=taken_at&order=desc.
New keyboard shortcuts:
- \\ toggles the filter bar
- / focuses the TopBar search input
- Cmd/Ctrl+F same as /
Filter button in the TopBar now lights up when filters are active or
the bar is open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the Lightroom-style full-screen single-photo viewer (spec §6.11).
Open with E / Enter / double-click; navigate with arrow keys; Esc returns
to grid. Filmstrip at the bottom auto-scrolls the active cell into view.
Display:
- Stills source from /photos/{id}/proxy so RAW/HEIC are decoded server-
side; large thumbnail is the onError fallback only.
- Videos render in a <video controls> sourced from /original.
- Continuous wheel zoom (1×–8×, ~15% per tick) with click-drag pan when
zoomed past fit. Z toggles between fit and natural-resolution
(computed from naturalWidth / clientWidth); a second Z snaps back.
- Live percentage indicator in the bottom-center while zoomed.
Polish:
- Neighbor preloading via new Image() when currentIndex changes so arrow
nav feels instant (skips videos).
- Focus trap with role=dialog, aria-modal, focus-on-mount, restore-on-
unmount, and Tab cycling among focusable children.
Plumbing:
- New canonical Photo TS interface in types/photo.ts; removes the three
duplicated definitions in PhotoThumbnail/Timeline/photoStore.
- photoStore gains viewMode + openLoupe/closeLoupe.
- useKeyboardShortcuts wires E/Enter/G to open/close, gates rating and
flag stubs with { enabled: viewMode === 'grid' } so they're inert in
loupe.
- App.tsx mounts <LoupeView/> as a z-40 overlay covering TopBar, gates
the auto-open right sidebar effect on viewMode === 'grid' so leaving
loupe doesn't fight the user's prior sidebar state.
- PhotoThumbnail gains an onDoubleClick prop wired to openLoupe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
