hyAway

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Future development ​

hyAway's main stand-out feature, and the reason I built it, is the swipe-based archive/delete (I call it review) workflow.

The rest of the app is there to support that review workflow. New features should make review better. The goal is not to turn hyAway into a full Hydrus UI replacement.

Feature areas ​

These are the parts of the app that support review today.

Finding files for review ​

  • Media pages browser
  • Predefined queries like random inbox, recently inboxed, recently archived, and recently trashed
  • Search, including favourite tags, saved searches, default queries, pinned searches, and visual system predicates
  • Search result sorting, including Hydrus file sorts and namespace-based sorts
  • Saving hyAway searches as Hydrus file-search pages
  • Scratchpad page actions for collecting individual files during browsing or review
  • Page tag counts, tag sorting, and tag filtering for building new searches from current page tags
  • Buttons at the end of review to navigate to other pages

Info for deciding what to do with a file ​

  • Image, video, and audio viewers
  • Tags
  • Metadata (file size, dimensions, etc.)
  • Ratings
  • Notes, including inline add, edit, rename, and delete on file pages

Review queue itself ​

  • Swipe-based archive/delete flow
  • Skip/undo support while reviewing
  • Configurable swipe bindings and thresholds
  • Rating and tag actions during review
  • Swipe action profiles for switching between review workflows
  • Touch and keyboard controls
  • Review footer actions for the current file

Review-like actions outside the queue ​

  • Archive/delete from gallery and file pages
  • Add or edit ratings
  • Add files to the scratchpad page

Review of the review ​

  • Undo and recovery paths for mistakes
  • Decision filmstrip at the end of review, grouped by action, with action count breakdowns
  • Predefined queries for recently archived and recently trashed files
  • Watch history

Viewing statistics ​

  • Most viewed
  • Longest viewed

Mobile support and customization ​

  • Primary use case is mobile or tablet
  • Focus on touch, large touch targets
  • Desktop supported, but trying to keep UI density relatively low
  • Keep UI consistent, provide a reasonable amount of customization

Likely future features ​

Possible with the current Client API ​

New features will serve the review workflow. Some examples:

  • Add/remove tags from file pages and gallery items
  • Actions on whole pages, like archive all or trash all
  • Multi select on gallery views
  • Stats about overall archive/review progress
  • File viewer improvements
  • More keyboard shortcuts, shortcut customization
  • Further improvements to file loading

Requiring Hydrus support ​

Some features depend on Hydrus supporting them and exposing them through the Client API:

  • Namespace sorting though search api instead of doing it in hyAway
  • Showing the search query of saved media pages
  • Editing media page queries
  • Moving, closing pages, other media page management
  • Using Hydrus saved searches instead of browser local storage
  • Notes positioning info for showing notes on images
  • Hydrus grouping, including sending a whole group to review

What hyAway is not ​

Hydrus scope still applies

Hydrus has its own docs on what Hydrus is for. hyAway does not change that scope. It does not try to make Hydrus good at things Hydrus is not trying to be good at, e.g. editing in-progress files, acting as a comic manager, or becoming a music player.

Some features are better covered by Hydrus itself or other tools:

  • Import, download, and subscription management
  • Downloader and parser configuration
  • Tag sibling and parent management
  • Bulk tag editing
  • PTR management
  • Duplicate processing
  • Database migration and maintenance
  • Sidecar import and export
  • Auto-tagging
  • IPFS
  • Hydrus settings not related to review
  • Heavy management tasks better suited to the desktop client