Rootlize

Some of you may have seen an earlier version of this project here called Capixe:

https://www.indiehackers.com/product/capixe

Capixe started from a simple frustration:

I knew I had saved a screenshot or image somewhere, but I often couldn’t remember the filename, folder, or date.

So I started building better ways to find images, including natural-language search based on what’s actually in them.

But while building it, I realized something important:

Finding the image was only part of the problem.

After finding the right files, I still had to:

• narrow down the right ones

• tag them

• rename them

• move them

• create folders

• organize everything manually

And very often, I would repeat almost the same process again later.

That changed the direction of the product.

Instead of building another image manager with AI search, I started thinking about the entire workflow:

Find → Organize → Automate

That shift is also why I decided to move on from the Capixe name and relaunch the project as Rootlize.

Rootlize works with your existing image folders.

You can use normal search or AI to find what you need, narrow the results, perform actions on those files, and turn repeated processes into reusable workflows.

For example:

Select a folder
→ Find UI screenshots
→ Tag them as “UI Reference”
→ Move them into a project folder
→ Save the whole process as a workflow

The idea is that search shouldn’t be the end of the workflow.

It should be the beginning.

Rootlize is currently an early Windows prototype.

The core workflow is working, but I haven’t tested every combination of AI searches, folder structures, actions, and automation workflows yet.

So there will probably be edge cases, inaccurate AI results, and small bugs.

That’s actually part of why I’m opening it up now.

I want to see how people use Rootlize with their own files, discover cases I haven’t covered, and keep improving the AI, workflows, and overall experience from real usage.

For now, Rootlize focuses on images and Windows.

I’m continuing to improve the AI, and longer term I’d like to bring the same workflow concept to macOS and other types of files as well.

If you could automate one repetitive task around your image folders, what would it be?

Rootlize:
https://rootlize.com