Features of Nimi Places

"Accessibility features" category lists features intended to ease and enhance project usability.

Language and localization support

Interface language can be changed, ​and local­ization may adjust behavior to match cultural con­ven­tions.

Online help

Project has online help — documenta­tion, frequent­ly asked ques­tions — sec­tion.

"Container customization" category lists features related to container customization.

Customizable item size

Items size ​for each con­tainer can be set individu­ally from large to really tiny.

Per-container accent color

Each con­tainer can use its own accent color (color scheme, color­ization) when support­ed by the theme.

Smooth scrolling

Contain­ers can be smooth scrolled either by mouse dragging, keyboard ​or mouse wheel.

Surface effects

A visual effect can be applied to con­tainer backgrounds us­ing the in-built surface‑effects engine.

Theme support

Each con­tainer can use its own theme (skin) ​and new themes can be add­ed.

View modes (in Places)

Places type con­tain­ers can dis­play items as grid, single ​or multi-column list (with optional details).

"Core features" category lists features related to the project core functioning.

Autoupdate

Is cap­able of checking ​for updat­es ​and autoupdating.

Color ideographs support 🌸

Applica­tion has limit­ed support ​for rendering text with color icons ​and symbols (ideographs) e.g. 🌸 us­ing an external custom font when provid­ed (system-independent) ​or native operating system rendering when avail­able.

Custom DPI support

Applica­tion is ful­ly scall­able ​and supports arbitrary DPI values (including high-DPI), while us­ing vector‑based ​and guid­ed rendering.

Dark mode support

Applica­tion has limit­ed dark mode support.

Ideographs support 🌸︎

Applica­tion has limit­ed support ​for rendering text with icons ​and symbols (ideographs) e.g. 🌸︎ ​on operating systems not supporting those, when supporting font is avail­able.

Instance copying wizard

Local applica­tion instance can be copied to other loca­tion us­ing dedicat­ed instance copy­ing wizard.

Relative paths support

Contain­ers, ​and file ​and folder rules — support us­ing relative paths.

"Desktop related features" category lists features related to the desktop environment.

Align containers to grid

When positioning ​or resizing con­tainer by holding shift its size ​and posi­tion snaps to grid.

Containers keyboard navigation

Contain­ers can be con­tinously navigat­ed us­ing keyboard arrows.

Customizable visibility

Contain­ers can be set individu­ally to either be always visible ​or to be visible only when desktop is focused.

Local shortcuts

Some shortcuts can be dis­play­ed as local e.g: pre­view­able elements, directories while still keeping their binding.

Resolution changes support

Contain­ers posi­tion is sav­ed ​and dynamic­ally restor­ed per dis­play (e.g: projector) ​and its resolu­tion.

"Files and folders productivity features" category lists features intended to enhance productivity when working with files and folders.

Directory thumbnails

It generat­es own directories thumbnails.

Fast note taking

Past­ed bitmap, text ​or html are automatic­ally sav­ed as quick note files of their type with name responding to actual dat

Image croping

Images view­ed ​in inbuilt viewer can be circle ​or custom shape cropped ​and copied to clipboard by mouse selec­tion with key modifiers.

Image thumbnails

It generat­es own image thumbnails ​for crisp, high qua­lity image thumbnails.

Image viewer

Images can be view­ed direct­ly from con­tainer us­ing inbuilt image viewer.

Internet shortcut thumbnails

It can generate own thumbnail ​for Internet shortcut files.

Media preview

Video ​and audio files can be pre­view­ed direct­ly from con­tainer us­ing inbuilt media player front-end.

Open Documents thumbnails

It has support ​for dis­play­ing thumbnails of some of Open Documents formats like text documents, spreadsheets ​and pre­senta­tions.

Packaged app thumbnails

It can generate own thumbnail ​for packaged apps.

PSD thumbnails

It has support ​for dis­play­ing PSD image format embedd­ed thumbnails.

Video thumbnails

It generat­es own video thumbnails ​for possible formats to provide easy identifica­tion of video files.

"Language localization" category lists features related to language localization e.g: in-built localizations.

RTL support

Supports right-to-left text direc­tion per local­ization.

العربية

يحتوي هذا المشروع على ترجمة عربية مدمجة.

Bahasa Indonesia

Proyek ini mencak­up lokalisasi bahasa Indon­esia bawaan.

Deutsch

Dieses Projekt verfügt über eine integrierte deutsche Sprachlokalisierung.

English

This project has inbuilt English local­ization.

Español

Este proyecto incluye una localización en español incorporada.

Français

Ce projet inclut une localisa­tion française intégrée.

한국어

이 프로젝트에는 한국어 로컬라이저스와인을 내장되었습니다.

हिन्दी

इस प्रोजेक्ट में अन्तर्निहित हिन्दी स्तानीकरण शामिल है।

Italiano

Questo proget­to include una localizzazione italiana integrata.

日本語

このプロジェクトには日本語のローカライズが組み込まれています。

Polski

Ten projekt posiada załączoną polską lokalizację językową.

Portugués (Brasileiro)

Este projeto inclui localização em português brasileiro integrada.

Русский

Этот проект имеет встроенную русскую локализацию.

Türkçe

Bu proje yerlleşik Türkçe yerelleştirme içerir.

中文（简体）

此项目内置简体中文本地化支持。

"Organize files and folders" category lists features for organizing files and folders.

Conditional container display

Contain­ers can be set to be dis­play­ed only ​at given loca­tion, hourly schedule, virtual desktop (if support­ed) ​or condi­tion (e.g: specific foreground window title).

Container name label

Place type con­tainer can show customiz­able name label either ​on top ​or bottom of the con­tainer to help dis­tinguish from each other.

Customizable elements order

Elements can be individu­ally arranged ​and their order will be pre­serv­ed.

Files and folders rules

Rules can be used to duplicate, move ​or create link to changed file ​or folder matching chosen condi­tion (pattern, current place ​or hour) under observ­ed directory.

Labels

Labels can be used to organize files & fold­ers, by highlighting those with one of avail­able colourful labels.

Quick search

When typing ​in focused con­tainer it will be automatic­ally scrolled to first query matching ele­ment by its name.

Sorting

Files ​and fold­ers can be sort­ed by name, extension, type, label, sub items count, times clicked, size, crea­tion ​or last modifica­tion date.

Sorting by content

Files ​and fold­ers can be sort­ed by their con­tent ​and grouped into sets of matching similiar: images, audio files, documents ​and other files.

"Security features" category lists mechanisms intended to protect integrity, authenticity, and safety.

Digitally signed

The applica­tion is digit­ally sign­ed.

Navigation request confirmation

Before navigating to external URLs, excluding those open­ed via con­tainer items, a con­firma­tion prompt is shown.

Update tampering protection

Signature of each download­ed update is verified. If tampering is detect­ed, the update is abort­ed with a warning.