Sofric Sort v0.13.0

Sort event photos into driver albums.

Download

Use the download page —
it picks the right file for your computer and explains the first-launch step.

The first time you open it

The app is not code-signed yet, so your computer objects once and then never again.

• Windows — click More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS — open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and press
  Open Anyway. The Mac download works on both Apple Silicon and Intel.

Before you start

Your photos are copied, never moved. The folder you point the app at is never
changed, so nothing can be lost. Press F1 inside the app to see every key.

New in this version

Move through the day a session at a time, see what you rejected, and know what is left.

The day is split into sessions. Wherever the camera was quiet for three minutes —
between a practice and the race after it, or over lunch — the app starts a new one.
Shift+PgDn goes to the next session and Shift+PgUp back, landing on its first
photo with the burst already selected; where PgDn moves ten photos, this moves a whole
session. The line above the photo says which one you are in, the strip marks where each
begins, and dragging the strip names the session under your hand. Your meeting of 11,318
photos and clips came out as forty-one sessions.

Shift+F shows one session at a time, and it goes together with U rather than
instead of it — so you can work through what is still undecided in one race and nothing
else, and Shift+PgDn moves that view on to the next session with anything left in it.
Esc brings the whole day back.

Shift+U shows the photos you rejected, which nothing did before: once the message
had gone, a burst rejected by mistake could only be got back with Mod+Z straight
away. In that view X takes the rejection back and the photo is undecided again, and a
number with Enter files it as usual. Nothing on your drive moves either way.

Mod+D asks what is left before you call the job done — how many photos you have
not decided about, how many you rejected, and any album holding only one or two photos.
Typing 4 when you meant 4 2 makes an album called 4 and looks perfectly normal at
the time; when that is what happened, the line says so: 4 holds 1 photo, and 42 holds
318 — did you mean 42? Every line has a button that takes you there.

When something goes wrong there is now something to send. The app keeps a small record
of what it did and what failed, and Show the log file at the foot of the key list
(F1) opens the folder holding it. Nothing photographic is in it. An error message also
stays on screen until you dismiss it, with a button that copies it.

And it will tell you when a new version is out. Once when it starts, it asks this page
whether there is a newer one. It sends nothing about you or your work, it never downloads
or installs anything by itself, and the settings panel has a switch to turn the question
off.

Worth knowing: the three minutes is measured on one meeting, and nothing recorded says
where a session really began. None of these keys has been used on a real day's work yet.

The handbook says all of it, in both languages.

Earlier: the strip under the photo can be dragged — take hold of the photos and push them
sideways, or drag the slim bar beneath them; neither moves your place, and a small label
says which minute of the day is in front of you. Before that: J files a photo into the
album exactly as Enter does, and L files it and then takes it away from where it was
— the only key in the app that removes one of your photographs, with Mod+Z to put it
back; photos are drawn sharp a moment after you stop on them, with a switch for it in the
settings panel; a photo opened while it was still being copied is read again when you come
back to it; recognition is quicker and the grouping pass gets through about twice as much;
the album browser's marks come back in half a second; a job opens faster; every copy is
forced to the disk before it takes its name; Croatian throughout; you can see copies
landing; everything can be made bigger or smaller; the two safeguards say when they are
off; three keys go backwards; previews for one album; F1 lists every key; the window
opens where you left it; clips are sorted alongside photographs; the whole job can be
sorted into piles with Shift+G; the app offers a rider's number once you have filed
them; bursts select themselves; and Ctrl/Cmd+E makes watermarked previews.