Sofric Sort v0.15.0

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 changed — except by the two keys that take one out of
the folder you point the app at, and you have to press them: L moves a photo into an
album, and Backspace puts one aside in a folder called Deleted by Sofric Sort.
Mod+Z undoes either. Press F1 inside the app to see every key.

New in this version

Press the key first, then type the album. J copies and L moves, as before — but
each now opens a small window on the photo, and you type the album's name into it:
digits and letters, so a second rider on 42 is simply 42 b, and 42 Marko works like
any other name. Enter in the window files. Enter on its own no longer files
anything, not even a suggestion: with no window open, a digit or Enter only tells you
which key opens one. When the app has a suggestion, J opens with it already in the box
and highlighted, so taking it is J and then Enter — one key more than before — and
typing replaces it.

The albums that start with what you have typed are listed under the box, and Tab fills
in the first. A name typed in other capitals than an album that already exists —
42 marko beside 42 Marko — goes into the one that exists rather than making a second.
A, F, O and Mod+E open the same window to name the album they work on, and in
the grouping pass J names the pile. Esc closes the window having done nothing. The
minus key that stepped from 42 to 42 b is gone: you type the letter.

Backspace deletes the photo under the cursor — and nothing is lost. Its files are
moved into Deleted by Sofric Sort at the top of your photos folder, in the sub-folder
they came from, and the photo leaves its albums. Mod+Z puts it back, even after the
project has been closed; or move the files back yourself, and the next time the project
opens it is an ordinary photo again. The app never empties that folder — delete it
yourself when you are sure. One photo per press, even inside a selected burst, and it
works in the album browser and the grouping pass too. On a Mac keyboard the key is
called delete.

Shift+← now takes back what Shift+→ added, as in any file browser, instead
of growing the selection at its other end.

Two things that were wrong. In the album browser, X on a photo you had moved into
that album with L deleted it — and that was the only copy left anywhere. It now
refuses, and says why. And the album browser stopped showing files that did not come
from this job whenever anything was filed or undone there, until the album was opened
again.

Worth knowing: nobody has sorted a real day with the new window or with Backspace yet,
and Backspace has only been tried on a computer's own drive. From a card or a network
drive, Windows may refuse to move a file something still has open; the app then says so
and deletes nothing. And if you ever go back to an older version, a project in which you
used Backspace loses its undo history there, and the photos in Deleted by Sofric
Sort show up in it again.

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

Earlier: its own typeface, a bar of its own at the top of the window, and quiet
scrollbars; 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 copies a photo
into an album and L moves it there, 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.