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Gallery & search

Browse, filter, sort, and full-text search every snip from a dense virtualized grid that stays smooth at thousands of captures.

The gallery is Snipdeck’s home workspace: a dense, virtualized grid of every snip you have captured, with full-text search over OCR text and window metadata, layered filters, sorting, and per-card actions. It stays smooth whether you have a dozen snips or several thousand.

The main window is laid out top to bottom: a toolbar (capture and global actions), a filter row (filter pills, search, reset), the grid itself, and a status bar along the bottom with live counts.

The grid is a responsive card layout. Snipdeck measures the available width and packs as many cards per row as fit, reflowing live as you resize the window. Each column is up to 240 pixels wide; cards flex down to a 130-pixel minimum during a resize so they squish rather than clip.

Note: The grid is virtualized — only the rows actually on screen are ever built, and each card decodes its thumbnail lazily the moment it scrolls into view. Decoded thumbnails are held in a bounded cache (up to 400), so memory stays flat no matter how many snips you have. This is what keeps the gallery responsive at thousands of snips.

Anatomy of a card

Every card shows the snip’s thumbnail over a theme-aware checkerboard backdrop (so letterboxed and transparent snips read clearly), plus a set of badges and metadata.

Element Where Meaning
Thumbnail Card top The snip drawn at its true aspect ratio as a floating “sheet” with a drop shadow.
pinned badge Top-left The snip is pinned and survives “Clear unpinned”.
on screen badge Top-left The snip currently has a floating window open.
OCR badge Top-left OCR text has been indexed for this snip.
WIN badge Top-left Window metadata (title, app, process) was captured.
Size pill Top-right The snip’s pixel dimensions, e.g. 1920×1080.
Dimensions Card bottom The same dimensions, in px.
Date Card bottom The capture time, shown as DD Mon HH:MM in your local time zone.
Source line Card bottom The monitor label, plus · window when window info was captured.
Preview line Card bottom A TAG, OCR, or WIN chip with a one-line hint (see below).

The preview line summarizes what Snipdeck knows about the snip, in priority order:

  • TAG — if the snip has a label, the label text is shown.
  • OCR — otherwise, if OCR text was indexed, it reads “OCR text indexed”.
  • WIN — otherwise, if window info was captured, it reads “Window info indexed”.

A card with none of these shows no preview line.

The search box lives in the filter row (and is focused by Ctrl+F). Its placeholder — text / OCR / window / monitor / path — is the list of fields it searches. Typing filters the grid live as you type; the × button (or clearing the field) resets it.

Search is full-text and runs against the on-disk index, so it covers content that is not visible on the card. A single query is matched across all of these fields:

Field Example match
OCR text Words recognized inside the screenshot by OCR.
Label / tag A label you have given the snip.
Window title The title bar text of the captured window.
App name The friendly application name.
Process name The executable’s process name, e.g. chrome.
Executable path The full path to the capturing app’s .exe.
Monitor label The monitor the snip came from.
Dimensions The WxH size string, e.g. 1920x1080.

How matching works

Search is backed by SQLite. When you type, Snipdeck splits your query on non-alphanumeric characters into tokens and runs a prefix, all-tokens full-text query: every token must match as a prefix (AND-combined). So inv rec matches a snip whose OCR text contains both “invoice” and “receipt”, in any order.

Tip: Because tokens are matched as prefixes, you can type partial words — dash finds “dashboard”. Add more words to narrow the results; each word must appear somewhere in the snip’s indexed text or metadata.

If the full-text path is unavailable for a query, Snipdeck transparently falls back to a substring (LIKE) search across the same fields, and finally to an in-memory match over the labels, monitor, and dimensions of the loaded snips — so search always returns something rather than failing.

Note: OCR and window metadata are indexed in the background after a capture. A snip you just took may not match an OCR search until indexing finishes a moment later.

Filters

Five filter pills sit in the filter row, before the search box. Each pill cycles through its options on every click; clicking past the last option returns it to All. A pill that is not on “All” is highlighted, and the status bar shows how many snips currently pass the filters.

All five filters and the search combine with AND — a snip must satisfy every active filter to appear.

Status

Filters by the snip’s pinned and on-screen state.

Value Shows
All Every snip (default).
Pinned Only pinned snips.
Unpinned Only snips that are not pinned.
On screen Only snips with a floating window currently open.
Hidden Only snips with no floating window open.

Content

Filters by what Snipdeck has indexed for the snip.

Value Shows
All Every snip (default).
Has OCR Snips with indexed OCR text.
No OCR Snips without OCR text.
Has window Snips with captured window metadata.
No window Snips without window metadata.
Tagged Snips that have a non-empty label.

Size

Filters by pixel area or aspect ratio.

Value Rule
All Every snip (default).
Small Under 250,000 pixels.
Medium Between 250,000 and 1,000,000 pixels.
Large 1,000,000 pixels or more.
Wide Width is more than 1.3× the height.
Tall Height is more than 1.3× the width.
Square The long side is no more than 1.2× the short side.

Date

Filters by capture time, relative to now.

Value Shows
All Every snip (default).
Today Captured today (your local calendar day).
24 hours Captured in the last 24 hours.
7 days Captured in the last 7 days.
30 days Captured in the last 30 days.

Sort

The Sort pill controls the order of the grid. It cycles through eight modes:

Value Order
Newest Newest first (default).
Oldest Oldest first.
Pinned Pinned snips first, then newest.
Largest Biggest pixel area first.
Smallest Smallest pixel area first.
Width Widest first.
Height Tallest first.
Monitor Grouped by monitor label, then newest.

Tip: The Reset button (with the reset icon, at the end of the filter row) clears the search box and returns every filter and the sort to its default in one click. It is highlighted whenever any filter, sort, or search is active.

Interacting with cards

Click to toggle floating

Clicking a card toggles its floating window. If the snip is not currently on screen, clicking it opens its floating snip; if it is already floating, clicking it hides it again. The on screen badge and the On screen count update to match.

Hover actions

Hovering a card reveals a row of quick actions in the bottom-right of the thumbnail:

Icon Action
Copy Copy the snip image to the clipboard.
Save Save the snip to a file.
Pin Toggle the pinned state (the icon lights up when pinned).
Trash Delete the snip.

Right-click for the full menu

Right-clicking a card opens the full context menu — the same menu you get on a floating snip. It is the complete action set for a single snip:

  • Copy the image to the clipboard.
  • OCR + Clipboard — run OCR and copy the recognized text.
  • OCR + Translate — open the translate popup.
  • Annotate — open the annotation editor.
  • Share — Windows share sheet, Mail (MAPI attachment), open in the system editor, or Upload to an image host. See Sharing and export.
  • Transform — rotate 90° / 180°, flip horizontal / vertical.
  • Crop and Resize.
  • Hide from screen / Delete.

Status bar and counts

The status bar along the bottom of the window shows live counts and the on-disk size of your snips:

Field Meaning
Total Every snip in the gallery.
Pinned How many snips are pinned.
On screen How many floating windows are currently open.
Filtered How many snips pass the current filters and search — i.e. how many cards are showing.
Storage size The combined size of all snip image files on disk.
Ctrl+F search A reminder that Ctrl+F focuses the search box.

When no snips have been captured yet, the grid is replaced by an empty state prompting you to capture a region with Win + left mouse, and noting that OCR, window info, and filters are indexed in the background.

Toolbar actions

The toolbar above the filter row holds capture and gallery-wide actions:

  • New, Snip + Clip, and Clip only — start a new capture (see Capture & shortcuts).
  • Collage — open the collage editor.
  • Show / hide on-screen snips and show / hide floating snips in the taskbar.
  • Clear unpinned and Clear all — bulk-remove snips (pinned snips survive “Clear unpinned”).
  • Theme toggle, the language globe menu, launch at login, and About.

See also