Finding things
Every way you remember an image is a way to find it: a word, a description, a color, a date, a tag, a lookalike.
Written from Teserra 1.3.16 · Markdown ·
In short
- Press ⌘K and describe the picture: “warm light on a white wall”.
- Right-click an image, Find Similar.
- Select a few images, then Constellation.
⌘K, one search box
Type a word and Teserra looks in filenames, titles, descriptions, tags, the visible text the Curator or your agent read in a picture, the body of saved articles, source addresses and camera details. Type a phrase that describes the picture, “marble statue, side light”, and the local visual model finds it by meaning. Both kinds of results come back in one list, grouped so you know why each one matched. A floating card shows the count and the source.
Find Similar
Right-click any image → Find Similar. Its visual siblings come up, image against image, within the collection, tag and filters you are in: open All to search the whole library. It runs on your Mac with Visual search on; without it, Teserra falls back to the Curator's index, which uses your key.
Constellation New in 1.3.13
Select two images or more and the panel shows What they share: the style words and the palette they have in common. Click Constellation and Teserra draws what belongs with them across the whole library: your picks at the centre, the rest on two orbits, each one threaded to the pick it is closest to, and a surprise from a collection none of your picks belong to. One image works too, from the inspector or a right-click.
- Click a style word to leave it out. Keep holds one thread (colours, light or style, all three marked Experimental) and lets everything else change. Stars switches between 16 and 30.
- Hover a star to see why it is there. × sets it aside and Bring back returns it, ⇧-click makes it a seed, Esc takes you back.
- Save as collection, Sheet… (a 2400 px PNG of the constellation with its words and palette, for Keynote or Slack), Copy for AI (a brief to paste into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor), and Copy for the palette or one of its colours.
Filters
- Color: a wheel, a hex value, saved colors. Several at once. Distance measured the way eyes see it.
- Dates: a calendar with a heat map of your activity.
- Activity: in the Library panel of the inspector, a GitHub style graph of what you added, one square per day over the last fifteen weeks, computed on the current scope. Click a day to filter the grid on it, click again to clear.
- Rating, Type (formats grouped by family, RAW included), site for links.
- Every filter combines with the search box and with a collection.
Sort
In Grid view: Import order, Recent, Name, Size, Ratio or Color, each both ways. The dice next to it, Shuffle, reshuffles the library and stays stable while you scroll.
Three views
Grid is where you work. Timeline shows the library day by day, session by session, with sessions stacked into piles. Wall walks your collection on a curved track, one piece in front, R for a random pick. Switch from the toolbar; the selection follows you.
