What is your favorite way to visualize… Anything, images, files, music, games, etc?

In grid is aesthetically appealing, but I find it very difficult to visually locate what I’m looking for quickly. In list, on the other hand, it’s boring as fuck, but it’s stupid easy to find anything.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    Really depends on what I’m trying to visualize. Things that are inherently graphical I’d probably put in a grid to fit more on the screen. Text probably a list.

  • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I’ve used to like grids, but I’m now very partial to lists. I used to like how grids enable you to scan thumbnails quickly, (like in games, music, images and files), but now I find them to be quite distracting. In lists, if I know what I am looking for (name, file type, etc), I can quickly go to where I need to be, and only need to scan a few items.

    Of course, if the list is incredibly long, it’d be more difficult, but even more so with a grid of thumbnails. The only possible exception here is images. Knowing when a photo was taken can give me a clue, but hell do I remember what I took that got saved as IMG_20230303163333.jpg is and how the content differs from IMG_2023030316303030.jpg

  • Kaigyo@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    If it has hierarchical organization like files/folders, then miller columns. I wish there was a decent Linux file browser with miller columns; it’s one of my favorite things in macos.

    If the cover art/thumbnail is helpful for quickly visually scanning, then grid. This is for things like my movies and shows in Kodi.

    Everything else should be a list.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    6 months ago

    Videos? Grid. Images? Grid. Both with preview window on the right.

    Everything else? List with a preview window docked on the right. For everything other than music, I always soet by the last modified date, unless there’s less than 10 files or so per folder, in which case alphabetical is preferred.