Nimi Places
Organizes desktop into customizable containers showing folder contents as icons/thumbnails on a scrollable surface. Has lots of management features: e.g. labelling; sort by category; time & location based settings. Thumbnails are displayed for supported Open Documents, PSD images & PDFs.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Windows
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Configurable
Features
- Portable
- Group Icons
- Special Folders
- Application Launchers
- Skinnable
Tags
- desktop-organizer
- fencing-on-the-desktop
- organize-desktop
Nimi Places News & Activities
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Recent activities
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What is Nimi Places?
Organizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents, PSD images and PDF files.
Supported media formats can be quickly: previewed, listened, played using in-built multimedia front end - with included image viewer supporting custom shaped and circular selection, and in-line playback of audio files.
Files can be labeled, customly ordered, and searched by typing. There are multiple sorting options from By Name to By Content (which groups into sets of matching similar files).
Other management features consist of file & folder rules, time & location based settings and more.
Nimi Places information
Developed by
Nimi projects Licensing
Proprietary and Free Personal product.Rating
Average rating of 2.3Alternatives
22 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Stardock Fences would be my favorite icon grouper, but its license activation is unstable and obsessively paranoid. It randomly loses its activation and I have to re-activate. Nimi Places gives me nearly the same functionality without the activation hassles. I just wish Nimi Places could perform its organization without my having to move my stuff into separate folders, for reasons. Still, I'd rather do that than to continue the Stardock activation battles.
While free for non-commercial use, this is not open source software.
Be sure to read the license! 3)(d) APPLICATION might COLLECT, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD and STORE:ANY INFORMATION and THIRD PARTY INFORMATION without confirmation and prior notice.
This is far too broad for me. I won't use it.
Thank you for pointing that out. In today's world that is unacceptable, I get needing ad revenue but that is a red flag
Yeah, thanks. I will just block it in windows firewall.
Last update was in January 2020.
I recommend that you don't install this. The installation is unclear. The uninstall is non-existent. I installed it under/Users/MyName. It grabbed everything on the desktop.. folder and file and put it in thumbnail. There appears to be no way to get it out of their cubes other to do a Delete which will actually put the folder in the Trash. I deleted the Nimi file under User and hoped for the best (I do keep backups) That seems to be the only way to get rid of this little monster. Poorly crafter, and as others are mentioning, it is not open source or necessarily private.
Shit program. Terrible to use, even harder to uninstall. Don't put this shit software on your computer
Folder contents don't update and constantly crashes. Even worse, it offers to save the crash report, which would suggest the purpose of doing so would be to submit it to the developers for debugging, but it offers no means of contacting them, and checking the website they just rant for several paragraphs about how their email is private. Well, way to go Nima, you've succeeded in keeping people from emailing you, including with crash reports, so your POS software can stay a POS. What a waste of time.
Crashes on Windows 10, requires uninstalling manually:
Then the only places referencing it will be lists of "recently ran applications" or "recently opened files".
[Edited by TheJaredWilcurt, May 06]