Nimi Places

Summary

Overview

Statistic

• 23%Added
• 40%Updated
• 17%Changed
• 15%Fixed
• 2%Removed

Features groups

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

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.

  • Virtual folders

    Elements can be grouped into virtual folders that can toggle those visibility state when activated.

• Files and folders productivity features

  • Media preview

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

  • 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 thumbnails

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

  • Video thumbnails

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

  • Folder sub items count

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Open Documents thumbnails

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

  • Image croping

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

  • PSD thumbnails

    It has support for displaying PSD image format embedded thumbnails.

• Container customization

  • Smooth scrolling

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

  • Custom item size

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

  • Customize appearance

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

  • 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.

  • Syncing

    Is capable of syncing - downloading additional content from Nimi Store.

  • Relative paths support

    Containers have support for using relative paths.

  • Web browser engine

    It has inbuilt Nimi Flux web browser engine component for displaying HTML formatted content.

  • PlaceTime

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

• Widgets types

  • Data fetch

    Can fetch web pages on given interval and display pattern matching result as name, or even sub items count. Additionally can submit data using POST method and follow link chains.

  • Indicators

    Can display processor load, memory status or drive use both as percentage counter and state responding custom image.

• Accessibility features

  • Language localization

    Interface language can be changed using language localizations.

• Server

  • Nimi Places for Web

    Server supports Nimi Places for Web extension.

  • Translation

    Translates requests and responses between local and sender system.

  • GZIP compression

    Non-binary responses are by default GZIP compressed.

  • Resume support

    Server binary sending supports resuming.