Allusion-rafauc is a fork of Allusion, a tool built for artists, aimed to help you organize your Visual Library – a single place that contains your entire collection of references, inspiration and any other kinds of images.
Allusion stores your tags and locations and related files in a database. This database can be exported by creating a backup in the Settings (S) > Import/Export tab clicking the Backup database to file button.
This is free and open source software.
Additions include:
- Video support.
- Video and GIF playback options.
- Implied tag relationships.
- Automatic inheritance of implied tags.
- Fully compatible with advanced search.
- Extra Properties.
- Allows you to define extra properties for files.
- Sort files by their extra property values.
- Use those extra properties in advanced searches.
- Quality of life improvements.
- Refresh hotkey.
- Fixed weird behavior in the tags tree when dragging/dropping or expanding items.
- Versatile tag selection in the tags tree using and combining modifier keys.
- Hold Alt to select whole tag collections (a tag and its sub-tags); otherwise, only select visible tags.
- Hold Command/Control to enable additive/subtractive selection.
- Hold Shift to enable selecting multiple items in range.
- Improved thumbnail updates when files change.
- Retry thumbnail generation when it takes too long.
- Tag editor can be moved to the side in the main gallery.
- Find tags using the contextual menu in the tag editor.
- Adjustable padding for thumbnails in the gallery.
- Multiple optimizations and bug fixes.
Website: github.com/RafaUC/Allusion
Support:
Developer: RafaUC
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Allusion is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. It runs in Electron.
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