Sofric Sort v0.14.0

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

This one is about how it looks. Nothing you press has changed.

The application is set in its own typeface, rather than whatever your computer
happens to supply, so it draws the same on a Mac as on Windows. Numbers stopped
jittering: the counter used to shift sideways as its digits changed, on every photo you
stepped past.

The window has a bar of its own, carrying the job's name and how far through it you
are, with a small line showing the same thing at a glance. Both of those used to sit on
top of the photograph. What is left over the photograph is what belongs to that
photograph — when it was taken, which session it is in, and a word only while a
safeguard is switched off.

The number you type is bolder than the one the application offers you. The
difference used to be a colour and a dashed border, both of which have to be looked at;
now it can be read out of the corner of your eye, which is the point of the difference.
When it questions an album, the question carries a mark as well as the amber.

The settings panel reads as a list of settings — grouped, with the labels a size up,
and the chosen option sitting up out of its row instead of being a white slab. The
grouping pass shows its keys as keys, instead of one long line of hints separated by
dots that wrapped and pushed the buttons about.

Three things that were hard to read are not. A photo you rejected says so on a
filmstrip tile in dark ink rather than white on orange. The quietest grey on this page
and in the handbook was below every legibility bar there is — on the two pages anyone
sees before they have the application at all. And in the grouping pass, the line between
a pile and the photographs you have taken out of it was being drawn over by the first
row of them.

One thing that was actually wrong. Asking a clip for a frame and drawing it straight
away can catch the frame before it, so a clip could be recognised from a picture of
itself taken a few seconds later — and suggested for an album on that basis. It waits
for the right frame now. How much that was costing is not known, because nothing about
clips has ever been measured against albums you filed by hand.

Worth knowing: nobody has run this on a Mac. The window's own bar is the part most
likely to look wrong there, and it is the one thing that could not be checked before
sending it. Windows is unaffected.

The handbook says all of it, in both languages, and its pictures are of this version.

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.