I Remember What’s in My Screenshots — Just Not Where I Saved Them
There's a particular kind of frustration I keep running into:
I know I saved an image of this. Where is it?
Then comes the scrolling.
Opening folders.
Checking dates.
Looking through thumbnails.
Trying to remember filenames I never really chose in the first place.
Screenshots are where I notice this problem the most, but it isn't really limited to screenshots.
Over time, all kinds of images pile up on a PC, and finding one again can become surprisingly difficult.
Eventually, I realized something:
I often remember quite a lot about the image I'm looking for.
I just don't remember anything useful about the file.
That's why I'm building Capixe.
The goal is to make finding images depend less on remembering filenames, folders, or dates, and more on what you actually remember about the image.
I'm starting with text.
The first Windows prototype lets you choose a folder, analyze the images locally, and search for words contained inside them.
Choose a folder → Analyze → Search
So if you remember a word, an error message, a product name, or something else you saw in an image, you can use that memory to find it again.
But I don't want Capixe to stop at exact text search.
Sometimes you remember the words.
Other times, you only remember something like:
"an image about a Python dependency problem"
or
"that comparison between two products I was considering."
Eventually, I want to explore AI-powered semantic search for those cases too — so you can search by meaning even when you don't remember the exact words.
That's the broader idea behind Capixe:
Find images by what you remember about them, not by how you stored them.
The first prototype is now available for Windows, and I want to see how this works outside my own image library before I build further.
If you have a folder full of images you've accumulated over time, I'd really appreciate you trying it:
https://p1rworks24-ops.github.io/Capixe/
And if you do:
What was the first image you tried to find?
