Nimi Places

Product overview

• 22%Added
• 42%Revised
• 15%Changed
• 15%Fixed
• 3%Removed

Types of features

• Organize files and folders
• Files and folders productivity features
• Container customization
• Desktop related features
• Core features
• Accessibility features

Key features

• Organize files and folders

  • Sorting

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

  • 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.

  • File and folder rules

    Rules allow to copy or move new files and folders matching pattern or time range from/to desired location.

  • Quick search

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

  • Custom ordering

    Elements can be rearranged and their order will be preserved.

  • Labels

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

  • Collect files and folders

    Files and folders can be linked, copied or moved to new container with special collector accessible from system context menu.

  • PlaceTime

    It has support for dynamically changing supported settings and features for given location and time range.

• Files and folders productivity features

  • Media preview

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

  • Folder sub items count

    For each folder total sub items count is displayed next to its icon.

  • Video thumbnails

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

  • Image thumbnails

    It generates own image thumbnails for crisp, high quality image 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

  • Executable windows switching

    When hovering over running executable, thumbnails of its windows are shown in a tooltip. Additionally windows can be focused by clicking or hovering.

  • Image viewer

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

  • Open Documents thumbnails

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

  • Folder statistics

    Depending on folder type it can show folder statistics in tooltip like file shares, 3 images preview or even interactive music files list.

  • PSD thumbnails

    It has support for displaying PSD image format embedded thumbnails.

  • Image croping

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

  • Internet shortcut thumbnails

    It can generate own thumbnail for internet shortcut files.

  • Directory thumbnails

    It generates own directory thumbnails either as files grid or cover image if present.

  • PDF thumbnails

    Is capable of rendering thumbnails for supported PDF files.

• Container customization

  • Smooth scrolling

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

  • Customize appearance

    Containers can be individually customized by using downloaded or one of inbuilt themes.

  • Custom item size

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

  • View modes (in Places)

    Places type containers can display items using one of two available layouts - either as icon grid or multi-column list.

  • Multiple container types

    Folders, locations - can be displayed in different container types like Places(multi-row), Paths(single-row) or Patchworks(multi display content based).

• Desktop related features

  • Custom display behaviour

    Containers can be set individually to either be always visible, be visible only on mouse hover or just when desktop is focused.

  • Hide desktop feature

    If enabled desktop can be hidden to show only containers.

  • Pin to top

    Containers by default are pinned to desktop, but can be set topmost, pinned to top in windows order.

  • Align containers to grid

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

  • Stick to desktop

    Containers can be set to be always send to bottom of window order.

• Core features

  • Autoupdate

    Is capable of checking for updates and autoupdating.

  • Relative paths support

    Containers have support for using relative paths.

• Accessibility features

  • Language localization

    Interface language can be changed using language localizations.

  • Online help

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