Text search

Open the Search panel from the toolbar to search across all text columns at once. Matching images stay; the rest fade out. The toolbar badge shows that a search is active.

The Search panel runs a full-text query across every text column.

Column filters

The Filters panel offers a filter widget tailored to each column’s type. Add as many as you like; they combine (AND) to narrow the set, and the toolbar badge counts how many are active.

The Filters panel — pick a column to add a type-appropriate filter.

Filter types:

• Text / string — substring match.
• Number — min/max range, with a sparkline of the distribution.
• Date — a date-range picker.
• Boolean — true / false checkbox.
• Colour — pick from a swatch palette.
• Geo / location — a geographic bounding box.
• Tags — multi-select tag chips.

Filters apply live across every view — narrowing the Grid also narrows the Scatter, Map, and Table.

Sort

Sorting lives in the Views panel (see Viewing collections): choose a column and direction. Sort and filter compose — filter first, then order what remains.

Similarity and semantic search

If the collection was processed with CLIP embeddings (toggle it in the Processing tab — see Processing & analysis), two extra tools light up:

• Visual similarity — click an image, then open the Inspector’s Similar tab to see its nearest neighbours by CLIP-embedding cosine similarity. A slider sets how many, and Filter main view narrows the whole collection to those matches.
• Semantic search — search by meaning (“a red sports car”, “handwritten notes”) rather than exact metadata text.

The Inspector's Similar tab — nearest neighbours by CLIP similarity, with a slider and a Filter main view button.

Clearing

Each panel has a clear control, and clearing all filters returns the full collection. Tiles animate back into place rather than snapping, so it’s easy to see what changed.