Nimi Places can display selected locations on desktop in chosen containers types - using own file display component along with thumbnail engine.
Some of the features:
Container customization
- Smooth scrolling - Containers can be smooth scrolled either by mouse dragging, keyboard or mouse wheel.
- Customize appearance - Containers can be individually customized by using downloaded or one of inbuilt themes.
- Custom item size - Items size for each container can be set individually from large to really tiny.
- View modes (in Places) - Places type containers can display items using one of two available layouts - either as icon grid or multi-column list.
- Multiple container types - Folders, locations - can be displayed in different container types like Places(multi-row), Paths(single-row) or Patchworks(multi display content based).
Core features
- Autoupdate - Is capable of checking for updates and autoupdating.
- Syncing - Is capable of syncing - downloading additional content from Nimi Store.
- Relative paths support - Containers have support for using relative paths.
- Web browser engine - It has inbuilt Nimi Flux web browser engine component for displaying HTML formatted content.-
- PlaceTime - It has support for dynamically changing supported settings and features for given location and time range.
Accessibility features
- Language localization - Interface language can be changed using language localizations.
Desktop related features
- Hide desktop feature - If enabled desktop can be hidden to show only containers.
- Align containers to grid - When positioning or resizing container by holding shift its size and position snaps to grid.
- Pin to top - Containers by default are pinned to desktop, but can be set topmost, pinned to top in windows order.
- Custom display behaviour - Containers can be set individually to either be always visible, be visible only on mouse hover or just when desktop is focused.
- Stick to desktop - Containers can be set to be always send to bottom of window order.
Files and folders productivity features
- Fast note taking - Pasted bitmap, text or html are automatically saved as quick note files of their type with name responding to actual dat
- Folder sub items count - For each folder total sub items count is displayed next to its icon.
- Image thumbnails - It generates own image thumbnails for crips, high quality image thumbnails.
- Media preview - Video and audio files can be previewed directly from container using inbuilt media player front-end.
- Video thumbnails - It generates own video thumbnails for possible formats to provide easy identification of video files.
- Executable windows switching - When hovering over running executable, thumbnails of its windows are shown in a tooltip. Additionally windows can be focused by clicking or hovering.
- Image viewer - Images can be viewed directly from container using inbuilt image viewer.
- Folder statistics - Depending on folder type it can show folder statistics in tooltip like file shares, 3 images preview or even interactive music files list.
- Open Documents thumbnails - It has support for displaying thumbnails of some of Open Documents formats like text documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
- PSD thumbnails - It has support for displaying PSD image format embedded thumbnails.
- Image croping - Images viewed in inbuilt viewer can be circle or custom shape cropped and copied to clipboard by mouse selection with key modifiers.
Organize files and folders
- Custom ordering - Elements can be rearranged and their order will be preserved.
- Labels - Labels can be used to organize files & folders, by highlighting those with one of available colourful labels.
- Sorting - Files and folders can be sorted by name, extension, type, label, sub items count, size, creation or last modification date.
- Container name label - Place type container can show customizable name label either on top or bottom of the container to help distinguish from each other.
- File and folder rules - Rules allow to copy or move new files and folders matching pattern or time range from/to desired location.
- Quick search - When typing in focused container it will be automatically scrolled to first query matching element by its name.
- Virtual folders - Elements can be grouped into virtual folders that can toggle those visibility state when activated.
- Collect files and folders - Files and folders can be linked, copied or moved to new container with special collector accessible from system context menu.
Widgets types
- Indicators - Can display processor load, memory status or drive use both as percentage counter and state responding custom image.
- Data fetch - Can fetch web pages on given interval and display pattern matching result as name, or even sub items count. Additionally can submit data using POST method and follow link chains.
