Finding the Thing You Saved Six Months Ago

Saving something takes one click. Finding it again, months later, is the real test of a library. Markie's gallery view exists for that moment: filters for type, color, tags, and date, so a folder that has grown into hundreds of images, videos, PDFs, and SVGs stays searchable. The filters live right in the masonry gallery you already scroll through, not behind a separate search screen.

Start with what it is

Every asset in Markie carries a type: image, video, PDF, or SVG. If you remember saving a video tutorial but not where, filtering to video alone cuts the search down before you scroll a single row. The same goes for a PDF pulled from research, or an SVG saved for an icon set. That filter narrows a library of a few hundred saves down to a handful in one click.

Narrow by color

Markie extracts a dominant color from every asset automatically. If you remember a reference image was mostly blue, or a screenshot had a warm orange background, filtering by color gets you there without remembering a filename or a source URL. It works the way memory often does: you rarely recall a name, but you often recall a shade. Markie also generates a thumbnail for every save automatically, so scanning a color-filtered result is quick.

Tags and dates

Tags do the rest. Add them manually, edit them in bulk across many assets at once, or turn on optional AI tagging and descriptions, which run locally through Ollama and add searchable text to assets you never labeled yourself. Combine a tag with a date range, say "reference" saved sometime last year, and finding it again stops being a guess. Turn on optional semantic search and describe what you're looking for in your own words.

None of this needs an account or a cloud index. The filters run against files stored on your machine, in a folder you chose, and that same folder can sync through iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive if you want it on more than one device.

The point of saving

Markie's filters are built around one job: getting back to the one thing you need, by what it is, what it looks like, what you called it, or when you saved it. The same library also connects to AI assistants through Markie's built-in MCP server, so you can ask for an asset in plain language from outside the app too.

Find your library again