Gallery & search

The gallery is Snipdeck’s home workspace: a dense, virtualized grid of every snip you have captured, with full-text search over OCR text and window metadata, layered filters, sorting, and per-card actions. It stays smooth whether you have a dozen snips or several thousand.

The gallery workspace

The main window is laid out top to bottom: a toolbar (capture and global actions), a filter row (filter pills, search, reset), the grid itself, and a status bar along the bottom with live counts.

The grid is a responsive card layout. Snipdeck measures the available width and packs as many cards per row as fit, reflowing live as you resize the window. Each column is up to 240 pixels wide; cards flex down to a 130-pixel minimum during a resize so they squish rather than clip.

Note: The grid is virtualized — only the rows actually on screen are ever built, and each card decodes its thumbnail lazily the moment it scrolls into view. Decoded thumbnails are held in a bounded cache (up to 400), so memory stays flat no matter how many snips you have. This is what keeps the gallery responsive at thousands of snips.

Anatomy of a card

Every card shows the snip’s thumbnail over a theme-aware checkerboard backdrop (so letterboxed and transparent snips read clearly), plus a set of badges and metadata.

Element	Where	Meaning
Thumbnail	Card top	The snip drawn at its true aspect ratio as a floating “sheet” with a drop shadow.
pinned badge	Top-left	The snip is pinned and survives “Clear unpinned”.
on screen badge	Top-left	The snip currently has a floating window open.
OCR badge	Top-left	OCR text has been indexed for this snip.
WIN badge	Top-left	Window metadata (title, app, process) was captured.
Size pill	Top-right	The snip’s pixel dimensions, e.g. 1920×1080.
Dimensions	Card bottom	The same dimensions, in px.
Date	Card bottom	The capture time, shown as DD Mon HH:MM in your local time zone.
Source line	Card bottom	The monitor label, plus · window when window info was captured.
Preview line	Card bottom	A TAG, OCR, or WIN chip with a one-line hint (see below).

The preview line summarizes what Snipdeck knows about the snip, in priority order:

• TAG — if the snip has a label, the label text is shown.
• OCR — otherwise, if OCR text was indexed, it reads “OCR text indexed”.
• WIN — otherwise, if window info was captured, it reads “Window info indexed”.

A card with none of these shows no preview line.

Search

The search box lives in the filter row (and is focused by Ctrl+F). Its placeholder — text / OCR / window / monitor / path — is the list of fields it searches. Typing filters the grid live as you type; the × button (or clearing the field) resets it.

Search is full-text and runs against the on-disk index, so it covers content that is not visible on the card. A single query is matched across all of these fields:

Field	Example match
OCR text	Words recognized inside the screenshot by OCR.
Label / tag	A label you have given the snip.
Window title	The title bar text of the captured window.
App name	The friendly application name.
Process name	The executable’s process name, e.g. chrome.
Executable path	The full path to the capturing app’s .exe.
Monitor label	The monitor the snip came from.
Dimensions	The WxH size string, e.g. 1920x1080.

How matching works

Search is backed by SQLite. When you type, Snipdeck splits your query on non-alphanumeric characters into tokens and runs a prefix, all-tokens full-text query: every token must match as a prefix (AND-combined). So inv rec matches a snip whose OCR text contains both “invoice” and “receipt”, in any order.

Tip: Because tokens are matched as prefixes, you can type partial words — dash finds “dashboard”. Add more words to narrow the results; each word must appear somewhere in the snip’s indexed text or metadata.

If the full-text path is unavailable for a query, Snipdeck transparently falls back to a substring (LIKE) search across the same fields, and finally to an in-memory match over the labels, monitor, and dimensions of the loaded snips — so search always returns something rather than failing.

Note: OCR and window metadata are indexed in the background after a capture. A snip you just took may not match an OCR search until indexing finishes a moment later.

Filters

Five filter pills sit in the filter row, before the search box. Each pill cycles through its options on every click; clicking past the last option returns it to All. A pill that is not on “All” is highlighted, and the status bar shows how many snips currently pass the filters.

All five filters and the search combine with AND — a snip must satisfy every active filter to appear.

Status

Filters by the snip’s pinned and on-screen state.

Value	Shows
All	Every snip (default).
Pinned	Only pinned snips.
Unpinned	Only snips that are not pinned.
On screen	Only snips with a floating window currently open.
Hidden	Only snips with no floating window open.

Content

Filters by what Snipdeck has indexed for the snip.

Value	Shows
All	Every snip (default).
Has OCR	Snips with indexed OCR text.
No OCR	Snips without OCR text.
Has window	Snips with captured window metadata.
No window	Snips without window metadata.
Tagged	Snips that have a non-empty label.

Size

Filters by pixel area or aspect ratio.

Value	Rule
All	Every snip (default).
Small	Under 250,000 pixels.
Medium	Between 250,000 and 1,000,000 pixels.
Large	1,000,000 pixels or more.
Wide	Width is more than 1.3× the height.
Tall	Height is more than 1.3× the width.
Square	The long side is no more than 1.2× the short side.

Date

Filters by capture time, relative to now.

Value	Shows
All	Every snip (default).
Today	Captured today (your local calendar day).
24 hours	Captured in the last 24 hours.
7 days	Captured in the last 7 days.
30 days	Captured in the last 30 days.

Sort

The Sort pill controls the order of the grid. It cycles through eight modes:

Value	Order
Newest	Newest first (default).
Oldest	Oldest first.
Pinned	Pinned snips first, then newest.
Largest	Biggest pixel area first.
Smallest	Smallest pixel area first.
Width	Widest first.
Height	Tallest first.
Monitor	Grouped by monitor label, then newest.

Tip: The Reset button (with the reset icon, at the end of the filter row) clears the search box and returns every filter and the sort to its default in one click. It is highlighted whenever any filter, sort, or search is active.

Interacting with cards

Click to toggle floating

Clicking a card toggles its floating window. If the snip is not currently on screen, clicking it opens its floating snip; if it is already floating, clicking it hides it again. The on screen badge and the On screen count update to match.

Hover actions

Hovering a card reveals a row of quick actions in the bottom-right of the thumbnail:

Icon	Action
Copy	Copy the snip image to the clipboard.
Save	Save the snip to a file.
Pin	Toggle the pinned state (the icon lights up when pinned).
Trash	Delete the snip.

Right-click for the full menu

Right-clicking a card opens the full context menu — the same menu you get on a floating snip. It is the complete action set for a single snip:

• Copy the image to the clipboard.
• OCR + Clipboard — run OCR and copy the recognized text.
• OCR + Translate — open the translate popup.
• Annotate — open the annotation editor.
• Share — Windows share sheet, Mail (MAPI attachment), open in the system editor, or Upload to an image host. See Sharing and export.
• Transform — rotate 90° / 180°, flip horizontal / vertical.
• Crop and Resize.
• Hide from screen / Delete.

Status bar and counts

The status bar along the bottom of the window shows live counts and the on-disk size of your snips:

Field	Meaning
Total	Every snip in the gallery.
Pinned	How many snips are pinned.
On screen	How many floating windows are currently open.
Filtered	How many snips pass the current filters and search — i.e. how many cards are showing.
Storage size	The combined size of all snip image files on disk.
Ctrl+F search	A reminder that Ctrl+F focuses the search box.

When no snips have been captured yet, the grid is replaced by an empty state prompting you to capture a region with Win + left mouse, and noting that OCR, window info, and filters are indexed in the background.

Toolbar actions

The toolbar above the filter row holds capture and gallery-wide actions:

• New, Snip + Clip, and Clip only — start a new capture (see Capture & shortcuts).
• Collage — open the collage editor.
• Show / hide on-screen snips and show / hide floating snips in the taskbar.
• Clear unpinned and Clear all — bulk-remove snips (pinned snips survive “Clear unpinned”).
• Theme toggle, the language globe menu, launch at login, and About.

See also

• Floating snips — the always-on-top overlays a card click toggles.
• OCR — how the text that powers search gets indexed.
• Sharing and export — the Share submenu in the right-click menu.
• Keyboard shortcuts — including Ctrl+F for search.