diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e407788a..decb4f9b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,16 +6,13 @@ Memories is a photo management app for Nextcloud with advanced features includin - **📸 Timeline**: Sort photos and videos by date taken, parsed from Exif data. - **⏪ Rewind**: Jump to any time in the past instantly and relive your memories. -- **🤖 AI Tagging**: Group photos by people and objects using AI, powered by the [recognize](https://github.com/nextcloud/recognize) app. +- **🤖 AI Tagging**: Group photos by people and objects using AI, powered by [recognize](https://github.com/nextcloud/recognize). - **🖼️ Albums**: Create albums to group photos and videos together. Then share these albums with others. -- **📁 Folders**: Browse your own and shared folders with a similar, efficient timeline. -- **🎦 Slideshow**: View photos from your timeline and folders easily. -- **📱 Mobile Support**: Works on devices of any shape and size through the web app. -- **✏️ Edit Metadata**: Edit Exif dates on photos quickly and easily. -- **📦 Archive**: Store photos you don't want to see in your timeline in a separate folder. -- **📷 RAW Support**: View RAW photos from your camera with the [Camera RAW Previews](https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/camerarawpreviews) app. - **🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 External Sharing**: Share photos and videos with people outside of your Nextcloud instance. -- **⚡️ Fast**: Memories is extremely fast. Period. More details below. +- **📱 Mobile Support**: Works on devices of any shape and size through the web app. +- **✏️ Edit Metadata**: Edit dates on photos quickly and easily. +- **📦 Archive**: Store photos you don't want to see in your timeline in a separate folder. +- **⚡️ Fast**: Memories is extremely fast. More details below. To get an idea of what memories looks and feels like, check out the [public demo](https://memories-demo.radialapps.com/apps/memories/). Note that the demo is read-only and may be slow since it runs in a low-end free tier VM provided by [Oracle Cloud](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/). Photo credits go to [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) (for individual credits, refer to each folder). @@ -29,10 +26,10 @@ To get an idea of what memories looks and feels like, check out the [public demo 1. Install the app from the Nextcloud app store. 1. Run `php ./occ memories:index` to generate metadata indices for existing photos. -1. Open the 📷 Memories app in Nextcloud and set the directory containing your photos. Photos from this directory will be displayed in the timeline, including any photos in nested subdirectories. -1. Installing the [preview generator](https://github.com/rullzer/previewgenerator) for pre-generating thumbnails is strongly recommended. +1. Open the 📷 Memories app in Nextcloud and set the directory containing your photos. +1. Perform the recommended [configuration steps](https://github.com/pulsejet/memories/wiki/Extra-Configuration). -## 🏗 Development setup +## 🏗 Development Setup 1. ☁ Clone this into your `apps` folder of your Nextcloud. 1. 👩‍💻 In a terminal, run the command `make dev-setup` to install the dependencies. @@ -42,19 +39,7 @@ To get an idea of what memories looks and feels like, check out the [public demo ## ⚡ Performance -- Once properly configured, Memories is **extremely fast**, possibly one of the fastest web photo viewers. -- On a server with relatively cheap hardware (`Intel Pentium G6400 / 8GB RAM / SSD`), loading the timeline takes only `~400ms` without cache on a laptop (`Intel Core i5-1035G1 / Windows 11 / Chrome`) for a library of `~17000 photos` totaling `100GB`. The test was performed on Nextcloud 24 with `nginx`, `php-fpm` and `mariadb` running in Docker. -- For best performance, install the [preview generator](https://github.com/rullzer/previewgenerator) and make sure HTTP/2 is enabled for your Nextcloud instance. - -## 📝 Notes - -- You may need to configure the Nextcloud preview generator and Imagemagick / ffmpeg to support all types of images and videos (e.g. HEIC). If using the official docker image, add `OC\Preview\HEIC` to `enabledPreviewProviders` in your `config.php`. -- If local time is not found in the photo (especially for videos), the server timezone is used. -- All photos in the timeline _must_ be on a single storage. For example, you cannot have a mounted directory inside your photos directory. -- The app can work with external storage for photos. Just set the mountpoint as the timeline directory. - - If you add any photos from outside Nextcloud, you must run the scan and index commands. - - Indexing may be slow, since all files must be downloaded from the storage. -- The archive feature moves photos to a separate folder called `.archive` at the root of your timeline. You can use this, for example, to move these photos to a cold storage. +Once properly configured, Memories is **extremely fast**, possibly one of the fastest web photo viewers. On a server with relatively cheap hardware (`Intel Pentium G6400 / 8GB RAM / SSD`), loading the timeline takes only `~400ms` without cache on a laptop (`Intel Core i5-1035G1 / Windows 11 / Chrome`) for a library of `~17000 photos` totaling `100GB`. The test was performed on Nextcloud 24 with `nginx`, `php-fpm` and `mariadb` running in Docker. ## Special Thanks diff --git a/appinfo/info.xml b/appinfo/info.xml index 9ea5eae7..b7a81a4c 100644 --- a/appinfo/info.xml +++ b/appinfo/info.xml @@ -11,25 +11,22 @@ Memories is a photo management app for Nextcloud with advanced features includin - **📸 Timeline**: Sort photos and videos by date taken, parsed from Exif data. - **⏪ Rewind**: Jump to any time in the past instantly and relive your memories. -- **🤖 AI Tagging**: Group photos by people and objects using AI, powered by the [recognize](https://github.com/nextcloud/recognize) app. +- **🤖 AI Tagging**: Group photos by people and objects using AI, powered by [recognize](https://github.com/nextcloud/recognize). - **🖼️ Albums**: Create albums to group photos and videos together. Then share these albums with others. -- **📁 Folders**: Browse your own and shared folders with a similar, efficient timeline. -- **🎦 Slideshow**: View photos from your timeline and folders easily. -- **📱 Mobile Support**: Works on devices of any shape and size through the web app. -- **✏️ Edit Metadata**: Edit Exif dates on photos quickly and easily. -- **📦 Archive**: Store photos you don't want to see in your timeline in a separate folder. -- **📷 RAW Support**: View RAW photos from your camera with the [Camera RAW Previews](https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/camerarawpreviews) app. - **🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 External Sharing**: Share photos and videos with people outside of your Nextcloud instance. -- **⚡️ Fast**: Memories is extremely fast. Period. +- **📱 Mobile Support**: Works on devices of any shape and size through the web app. +- **✏️ Edit Metadata**: Edit dates on photos quickly and easily. +- **📦 Archive**: Store photos you don't want to see in your timeline in a separate folder. +- **⚡️ Fast**: Memories is extremely fast. To get an idea of what memories looks and feels like, check out the [public demo](https://memories-demo.radialapps.com/apps/memories/). Note that the demo is read-only and may be slow since it runs in a low-end free tier VM provided by [Oracle Cloud](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/). Photo credits go to [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) (for individual credits, refer to each folder). ## 🚀 Installation -1. Install the app from the Nextcloud app store +1. Install the app from the Nextcloud app store. 1. Run `php ./occ memories:index` to generate metadata indices for existing photos. -1. Open the 📷 Memories app in Nextcloud and set the directory containing your photos. Photos from this directory will be displayed in the timeline, including any photos in nested subdirectories. -1. Installing the [preview generator](https://github.com/rullzer/previewgenerator) for pre-generating thumbnails is strongly recommended. +1. Open the 📷 Memories app in Nextcloud and set the directory containing your photos. +1. Perform the recommended [configuration steps](https://github.com/pulsejet/memories/wiki/Extra-Configuration). ]]> 4.5.2 agpl