by OntiqoPoint it at your files
Choose the folders and accounts to read, and Quidex shows how many files it found. Optional online lookups are off until you switch them on. Nothing on your disk changes until you commit.
What happens after you point it.
You choose what Quidex looks at. It reads, works out how your files group, and prepares a layout it will not carry out until you say so.
It reads everything
Documents in full, scans as text, photos described, speech transcribed. Archives, discs and programs are identified.
The progress view shows counts, pace and anything that needs you. If a big collection will take days, it says so.
Files understood
12,884 of 19,022
15,204 already searchable · reading about 5 files a minute
roughly 20 hours to go, at the pace of the last few hours
Collect19,022Extract17,660First look15,204Read12,884Organise9,410Read in full12,884 of 19,02268% · +5.1/minRecordings heard301 of 32293% · the long ones are lastNeeds you✓ nothing needs you yetThe progress view, on an invented collection, without a graphics card: about half the pace of a recommended machine.
It works out the structure
The groupings come from the files, not a template. A folder needs many files that share it, and its name is one a person would choose. You can rename or reshape anything later.
Every file gets a place, or a shelf
Files that cannot be placed with confidence go on marked shelves at the bottom of the tree, with counts: still being read, needs your decision, duplicates, and application clutter.
You adjust, then commit
Drag a folder or move a file, and your changes stick when Quidex refines the rest. Commit in place, or into a new folder with the original untouched. You see exactly what will happen first.
An undo record goes into your Documents folder and survives uninstalling. For files on your computer, a double-click undo beside it puts every file back. For files in a cloud account, reinstall Quidex and point it at the record.
Keep using it, or uninstall it
Afterwards, Quidex is a browser for your collection. Regroup it without moving anything, search in plain sentences, and ask questions answered from your files, with the files cited.
Uninstalling leaves only your undo record.
the fencing quote where the total was about four thousandbest matchquotes final(2).xlsx
Comparison of three fencing quotes — $4,180 on the summary sheet.
read by OCRscan_0112.pdf
A scanned quote for timber fencing, read from the scan itself.
spoken · at 00:41Voice memo 018.m4a
"…he reckons four grand if we do the gate too…"
Search by meaning, across everything it has read, seen and heard.
Where it sits
Three kinds of tool.
They answer different questions.
Search tools
Windows Search and file finders
Where is that one file? They find it and leave the collection as it was.
Sorters and renamers
The tidy-my-Downloads tools
Can something file this for me? They sort into built-in categories or a scheme you describe first.
Quidex
Collection-scale organisation
What is in here, and how should it be arranged? It reads everything, including speech and photos, works out the structure from the contents, and moves files only when you say so. Search comes with it.
If your files are mostly in order, a search tool is all you need.
What to expect
Reading takes real time.
It works in the background
Hours on a small collection, days on a large one. It runs at low priority and pauses while you present, use a full-screen app or run on battery.
Useful before it finishes
Files become searchable as they are read. The proposed layout appears once enough is understood, and improves as the rest is read.
The same answers on any machine
A faster machine finishes sooner. It never gets better answers.
Unreadable files are reported
Password-protected, damaged or unopenable files are named, counted and shown, never dropped.
What the program sends over the network, and when, is set out in section 2 of the privacy policy.