## 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](/content/docs/viewing-collections/index.html)): 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](/content/docs/processing-and-analysis/index.html)), 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.